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👋Good morning! While a committee in Oslo spent yesterday handing out the world's most famous prize for peace, the business world was doing its best impression of a school playground after the bell. Rivals bolted their doors on each other, billionaires traded accusations across continents, and the people trusted to keep the world's money steady found themselves dragged into fights they never picked. Even the diesel in a delivery van's tank turned into a bargaining chip. There's something almost poetic about a Friday where the loudest reminder that referees and rules matter came from Norway, just as half of corporate life seemed determined to test how far both could bend (spoiler: quite far). So it's Saturday. Kettle on, feet up, phone safely away from anything with a "buy now" button. Here's how a week that ended with more sparring than settling actually played out.

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