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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The US economy added 254,000 jobs in September, smashing expectations and prompting traders to increase bets that the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates at a slower pace after a jumbo cut…

A week ago, few outside the labor movement or shipping industry knew Harold Daggett, the tough-talking, colorful head of the union now on strike at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts. That’s certainly no longer the case. Daggett is the president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, which has nearly…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Hedge funds myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Top Wall Street block trader Andrew Liebeskind has left hedge fund LMR Partners after less than a year and is joining rival ExodusPoint Capital Management, according to people with knowledge of the…

Bank of America customers report having trouble accessing their bank accounts on Wednesday. Reports about a problem at Bank of America spiked around 12:45 pm ET on Downdetector, which collects data on outages. Many customers complained they could not see their account balances. Some who could access their accounts were startled…

US President Joe Biden has said he does not support an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities as the region braced for the response to Tehran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel.“The answer is no,” Biden said when asked by a reporter whether the US would support a retaliatory strike on…

A massive port strike is threatening America’s delicate supply chains. The Federal Reserve is rushing to prevent unemployment from spiking. And the race for the White House is coming down to the wire. Yet investors remain unrelentingly bullish, bidding the US stock market further into uncharted territory. The S&P 500…

Iran fired a barrage of missiles at Israel on Tuesday evening, hours after Israeli forces launched a ground offensive against Hizbollah in southern Lebanon as the region slid closer towards all-out war.The Israeli military said that approximately 180 missiles had been fired into Israel from Iran since the beginning of…

Verizon has confirmed an outage affecting some of its mobile phone customers that sparked a flurry of complaints on social media about disruptions to calls, texts and their ability to access the internet. “We are aware of an issue impacting service for some customers,” a Verizon spokesperson told CNN Monday.…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.US private equity group TPG is nearing a €7bn deal to acquire the German metering company Techem, in a takeover that would rank among the largest such transactions between buyout groups in…