Amid a strong labor market overall, employment opportunities for information technology professionals appear poor, according to an analysis by Janco Associates, which tracks federal data. https://ift.tt/Yclt08O

The steep declines in prices of Treasurys are forcing markets to confront the possibility that the rates required to place the supply of bonds will be higher than anyone expected. https://ift.tt/QjVxgSE

High interest rates, driven by the Federal Reserve’s higher-for-longer policy, are shaking up how corporate loans get done, throwing into relief the role played by private-credit funds. https://ift.tt/hGkFZTH

Bristol Myers Squibb, the biopharmaceutical company, will acquire Mirati Therapeutics in a transaction that values the oncology developer at up to $5.8 billion. https://ift.tt/K6rlOmx

Intercontinental Exchange has plowed more than $23 billion into an ambitious, yearslong bet to overhaul the plumbing of the mortgage market, closing its biggest mortgage deal so far last month. https://ift.tt/59zuLFQ

Investors worried about the recent pullback in stocks are counting on the coming earnings season to give them something to get excited about amid anxieties over the Fed’s attitude to interest rates. https://ift.tt/KM9yRpv

Nelson Peltz plans a fresh push for board seats at Disney following a relentless slide in the entertainment giant’s shares. https://ift.tt/0jJAefH

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Iranian security officials helped to plan Hamas’s Saturday surprise attack on Israel and gave the green light for the assault at a meeting in Beirut last Monday, according to senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah, another militant group that is backed by Iran. https://ift.tt/NLhpW1Z