CALWIRE Market Update (Saturday, October 17, 2026)

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Today's top story: Congress passed the Russia sanctions bill named for Lindsey Graham with bipartisan support. Trump just put it on hold a month after signing it. This roundup covers 12 stories from Fortune, CNBC Top, and MarketWatch.

Congress passed the Russia sanctions bill named for Lindsey Graham with bipartisan support. Trump just put it on hold a month after signing it
Trump's unexpected decision comes a week after he stunningly said the U.S. had agreed to purchase diesel from Russia. — Fortune

Investors are buying up vast tracts of timberland across U.S. in one of market's longest-term bets
Timberland managers buying for pension funds and other institutional investors can wait decades for returns, but the market can al... — CNBC Top

Trump's student loan overhaul could lead to more bankruptcy filings, former judge says
After nearly three decades as a bankruptcy judge, Sarah Sharer Curley writes about the legal process in her new book, "The Price o... — CNBC Top

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei is steering a possible $2 trillion IPO—but he says up to 40% of his time goes to making sure company culture is good
Dario Amodei says constant communication and avoiding "corpo speak" keep Anthropic's 3,500 employees aligned as the AI race heats... — Fortune

Mark Cuban is worth $10 billion—but in college, he paid for junior year with a dorm-room chain letter he admits was ‘basically a scam’
Cuban, who grew up in a working-class family, says his early hustles laid the groundwork for a career that took him from a crowded... — Fortune

Jeff Bezos says ‘millions of people’ will be living in space by 2045—and robots will commute on our behalf to the moon
No one enjoys the dreaded commute to work, and by 2045, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicts we’ll have robots to do that for us. Af... — Fortune

'Everyone laughed' when he started a pumpkin farm—now it brings in $2 million a year
Kelly Schultz bought a pumpkin farm in 1996. He transformed it into a seasonal attraction that draws in 100,000 visitors each fall... — CNBC Top

‘Some people did everything right’: I lost my home in the Great Recession. I rent in my 50s. Why is that judged as failure?
”I earn $110,000 a year.” — MarketWatch

Meet the home buyers totally unfazed by 7% mortgage rates
Individual investors and second-home buyers accounted for 1 in 5 home purchases in September — the highest share in a littl... — MarketWatch

Berkshire shares buck market sell-off, rally to highest since Buffett said he would step down as CEO
Berkshire Hathaway shares are at their highest level since Warren Buffett told shareholders at the May 2025 annual meeting he plan... — CNBC Top

Influencers and biohackers swear by fasting. Here’s what the science says.
Fasting can help some people reduce how many calories they eat — but it’s not “effortless” as some wou... — MarketWatch

Silver’s recent 50% drop from a record high hints that an economic slowdown looms
There’s a relatively off-the-radar commodity that can provide hints on where the economy is headed — and it’s...

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