Welcome to Wednesday and our wrap of the main global business and politics headlines from overnight.
In New York, the S&P 500 fell 1.2% and the Nasdaq dropped 1.6% overnight after August jobs data in the US showed the number of available positions rose to 9.61 million from less than 9 million,
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