Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
The Wall Street Journal
Uber rivals form international alliance, by Douglas MacMillan and Rick Carew
FedEx trims outlook on weak freight demand, by Laura Stevens
Quartz
China’s latest refusal to fix its state-owned companies is bad news for the global economy, by Gwynn Guilford
The US gender wage gap, the narrowest in history, is still awful, by Frida Garza
Bloomberg
The richest Americans are winning the economic recovery, by Victoria Stilwell and Alexandre Tanzi
Under Armour expects to generate $7.5 billion in revenue by 2018, by Courtney Dentch and Nick Turner
The Associated Press
Obama using business CEOs meeting to apply budget pressure, by Kevin Freking
King of beers: Makers of Budweiser, Miller eye global merger, by Danica Kirka
Reuters
Weak U.S. inflation complicates Fed rate decision, by Lucia Mutikani
Microsoft discriminated against women in pay, promotions: U.S. lawsuit, by Daniel Wiessner
News about business journalism:
Can Bloomberg be knocked off its throne?
Reuters holding personal finance conversations on Twitter
First Word leader Reynolds leaves Bloomberg
ProPublica’s Podkul wins Birger award
Hamilton named AP technology writer
Bloomberg signs data licensing agreement with Twitter
CNBC Digital posts record August
How CNBC’s Epperson got into business journalism
This date in business journalism history:
2013: Our job is to demystify and explain
2013: The business of media
Business journalism birthdays:
Sept. 17: Bonnie Cha with Autodesk
Sept. 17: Sarah Frier with Bloomberg
Sept. 17: Geoff Colvin with Fortune
Sept. 17: Gabby Stern with WSJ
