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Australian employment surged in June, extending the previous month’s gains, underscoring the ongoing strength in the nation’s labor market and stoking bets on another interest-rate increase.

Economic decay and America’s strategic opening.

Time to tot up the scores

For Louise Haigh, revenge is sweet. Two days before her 39th birthday, and less than two years after being forced to quit the UK government in disgrace, she was appointed de facto deputy to new Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Officially, she’s Britain’s most powerful woman.

New venture has raised questions as financial firms decipher risk of paying for advanced access to market-moving feed

Renewed air campaign has yet to reassure shipowners the waterway can be made safe from Iranian attacks

Houthis say they attacked Saudi tankers in the Red Sea, threatening new chokepoint in Iran war Reuters

Northrim BanCorp to acquire PBCO Financial for $167M

The Five-Year Plan to create a technological powerhouse is off to a great start.

Crop prices rose to a three-year high as heat waves and escalating attacks in the Black Sea threaten to disrupt global grain trade, reviving risks to food inflation that have also been stoked by the war in Iran.