Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Oct 18, 2017

Tying the knot:

Rapper GUCCI MANE married KEYSHIA KA'OIR last night at the Four Seasons in Miami, in front of guests including SEAN "Diddy" COMBS, "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star KIM ZOLCIAK-BIERMANN, KARRUECHE TRAN, LIL YACHTY, 2 CHAINZ, RICK ROSS, BIG SEAN and JHENE AIKO.
Peoplemagazine reports the wedding will be shown on BET as a 10-part special called "Gucci Mane and Keyshia Ka'oir: The Mane Event," which debuted last night.

The Stock Market:

Boom! The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 23-thousand briefly yesterday, thanks to better-than-expected quarterly results from Johnson & Johnson and UnitedHealth Group. It closed at 22,997.44; up more than 40 points.
FYI: The first time the Dow closed above 22-thousand was back on August 2nd.
Trivia: Interestingly, this week happens to be the anniversary of "Black Monday," on Oct 19, 1987, when the market dropped like a rock, falling 508 points and starting a recession.

Money Talks:

Forbesmagazine is out with its annual World's Richest People list, topped once again by BILL GATES, whose estimated fortune is a mere $86 billion dollars. He's held the top spot now for 18 of the past 23 years. The rest of the top-10:
10. Michael Bloomberg; $47.5 billion
8. (tie), David Koch and Charles Koch, from Koch Industries; $48.3 billion
7. Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle; $52.2 billion
6. Carlos Slim, CEO of America Movil; $54.5 billion
5. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO; $56 billion
4. Amancio Ortega, co-founder of Zara; $71.3 billion
3. Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com; $72.8 billion
2. Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway; $75.6 billion
1. Bill Gates, Co-founder of Microsoft; $86 billion
Just missed: BERNARD ARNAULT of France, who's Louis Vuitton's CEO with $41.5 billion and Google CEO LARRY PAGE, with $39.8 billion. Meanwhile, PRESIDENT TRUMP dropped him from 156th place to 248th place in the rankings, tied with Snapchat creator EVAN SPIEGEL, after his fortune dropped by around $600-million dollars to $3.1 billion.

Grace notes from Vinny Marino:

ED SHEERAN will be out of commission for a while. The UK newspaper The Sun reported that he had a nasty bicycle accident over the weekend in London and would probably have to cancel a few concerts. Official word came yesterday that Ed fractured his right wrist and left elbow. That means Ed had to bail out of upcoming shows in Taipei, Osaka, Seoul, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Ed's Instagram page said (quote), "I'm waiting to see how the healing progresses before we have to decide on shows beyond that. Please stay tuned for more details. PS--Ed isn't typing this as he has both arms casted/bandaged." (Marino)