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The employment picture and unemployment rate changed little in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 29,000 for the month, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%. CNBC reported that economists surveyed by Dow Jones had predicted 84,000 new jobs and a jobless rate of 4.1%. The government also

The Fire & Police Pension Association of Colorado disclosed nearly $491 million in new commitments and co-investments as the retirement system expanded its alternative-investment roster and reorganized portions of its hedge fund portfolio. The Denver-based pension investor allocated $336 million to six new manager relationships, committed another $139 million to four existing firms and completed

Volato Group’s Alignment Engine subsidiary has signed two four-year, take-or-pay AI infrastructure orders totaling about $1.17 billion with an undisclosed large AI customer, providing the newly acquired platform with its first major contracted deployment. The agreements call for phased installation of dedicated, single-tenant GPU clusters at Alignment Engine’s planned Ohio AI infrastructure campus. The first