Saudi-Backed Forces Launch Major Counteroffensive

A.M. Edition for Oct. 6. With France on the precipice of a dangerous financial spiral (wsj.com/world/europe/france-debt-bonds-spendin…), student protestors are demanding President Emmanuel Macron raise spending, the one thing WSJ Paris bureau chief Stacy Meichtry (wsj.com/news/author/stacy-meichtry?mod=WSJ_WNPOD) says the country can’t afford to do. Plus, Saudi and Yemeni forces launch an operation to take back a strategic port Iran-backed Houthi rebels have been using to disrupt oil-tanker traffic (wsj.com/world/middle-east/saudi-backed-forces-…) through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. And the Treasury Department enables auto-enrollment and stock donations for Trump Accounts, turning the program into a universal child investment vehicle (wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-accounts-kids-in…). Luke Vargas hosts.

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