Jobs Report Friday again! Here’s what to consider while picking through the numbers – WSJ and Bloomberg and NYTimes

With all that went on between the US and China over the past week alone on tariffs, a timeline may help. Luckily, the Times was thinking of our plight when it put this together – NYTimes

Of course, it already needs updating – Bloomberg and WSJ

GE’s proxy advisers ISS and Glass Lewis are pushing shareholders to force the troubled giant to fire auditor KPMG after a 109-year relationship thanks to a spate of recent accounting issues, including “massive charges related to insurance operations” earlier this year – WSJ

Breakingviews on the recent move by BlackRock to offer products allowing investors to avoid putting money into manufacturers and retailers of firearms—a “simple solution” that Reuters argues is “good business,” too – NYTimes

Yes, everything’s bigger in Texas.  Including—at least in one case against JP Morgan—the punitive damages awards. Which is why counsel for JPM is working overtime in post-verdict briefing to set aside a jury’s “blockbuster verdict” against the financial institution in a probate dispute over the estate of past American Airlines exec Max Hopper – Law360

Online lender SoFi will start offering checking accounts and debit cards to some customers as early as next month, a big move for the student-loan refinancing giant that just months ago withdrew its application for an industrial loan charter that would have allowed it to collect government-insured deposits – Bloomberg

The Journal offers up Elkhart, Indiana (the RV capital of the world) as a snapshot of the “future of America’s economy”—a town that once suffered rampant unemployment but that now faces labor shortages, increasing wages, home prices that are pushing past the point of comfort – WSJ

A remarkable blow-by-blow of the legal war brewing between two of the world’s “most popular dating apps”—Tinder and Bumble. And if you thought finding love (or maybe a little less than that) online was all just fun and games . . . . Well, you’ve got another thing coming – NYTimes

Delta Airlines has confirmed that a cyberattack on one of its chat-functionality vendors has exposed the credit-card information on hundreds of thousands of its customers between September 26 and October 12, 2017 – WSJ and Bloomberg and Law360

Which makes this ransomware warning awfully timely—for everyone – MarketWatch

Sure. The introduction of artificial intelligence on a distant alien planet.  What could possibly go wrong there? Killer robot space bees.  I’m just saying – SPACE

Have a great weekend.