Bloomberg The US trade deficit widened more than forecast in September to a seven-month high as imports expanded and the merchandise gap with China hit a record amid an escalating tariff war. The gap for goods and services increased 1.3 percent from the prior month to $54 billion, Commerce Department data showed. The median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg ...

Bloomberg Canada’s unemployment rate fell back to four-decade lows, but sluggish wage increases and slumping exports offer little evidence the economy is running hot enough to warrant accelerated interest rate increases. Statistics Canada released jobs data that showed modest employment gains, but with a shrinking labour force and the slowest wage gains in a year. A separate trade report continued ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc. was slapped with a symbolic 500,000-pound ($645,000) fine by the UK’s privacy regulator for “serious” violations of data protection rules that paved the way for the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The fine is the highest possible for the Information Commissioner’s Office under old rules that predated this year’s European Union revamp of privacy penalties. The ICO said that ...