Business news briefs Feb. 23
Cleveland Fed president appointed to new five-year term – 3:31 PM Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Loretta J. Mester was appointed Monday to a new five-year term starting March 1, the Federal Reserve Board announced.

U.S. government seeks to force Apple to extract data from a dozen more iPhones
according to people familiar with the matter, Devlin Barrett reports for Dow Jones Business News. The other phones are at issue in cases where prosecutors have sought, as in the San Bernardino, Calif. terror case, to use an 18th-century law called

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LONDON – Sterling heads towards its biggest loss in almost six years against the dollar, hit by a rise in the odds on a “Brexit” after a handful of senior ruling Conservatives join the campaign to leave the European Union. (BRITAIN-EU/MARKETS (UPDATE 1