Some of Wednesday’s top business stories:
Wall Street Journal
Monsanto earnings: Company to buy Climate Corp. for $930 million; Loss widens, by David Kesmodel and Ben Fox Rubin
Marc Jacobs to leave Louis Vuitton to prepare IPO, by Christina Passariello
Bloomberg
U.S. government shutdown threatening housing recovery, by John Gittelsohn, Prashant Gopal and Nadja Brandt
Obamacare applicants click, reclick as they try to connect, by F. Marie Rohde, Mark Melnicoe and Tim Jones
Reuters
Private sector adds 166,000 jobs in September – ADP, by Luciana Lopez
Stocks, dollar fall as U.S. shutdown continues, by Wanfeng Zhou
CNNMoney
Hyundai defers car payments for gov’t workers, by Peter Valdes-Dapena
Postal Service defaults on $5.6 billion payment, by Aaron Smith
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This date in the history of business journalism
2007: TheStreet.com president steps down
2011: CNBC launches TV app in Europe, Middle East and Africa
