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Talking Biz News – Feb. 15, 2022

Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Fed officials agree on a March rate hike but little else, by Christopher Rugaber

Pressure mounts on Congress to curb lawmaker stock trading, by Brian Slodysko

CNN

‘People are unhappy’: Fed official warns on high inflation, by Matt Egan

Texas sues Meta for collecting facial recognition data, by Brian Fung

The Wall Street Journal

Intel Nears Roughly $6 Billion Deal to Buy Tower Semiconductor, by Dana Cimilluca, Cara Lombardo

Glencore Sets Aside $1.5 Billion to Cover Regulatory Probes, by Alistair MacDonald

CNBC

Electric vehicles dominated Super Bowl ads, but are still only 9% of passenger car sales, by Catherine Clifford

Moderna, Pfizer stocks fall as Covid omicron wave subsides in U.S., by Spencer Kimball, Nate Rattner

Reuters

Blackstone, partners bet $24 billion on hunger for urgent delivery

Record job-switching rates are pushing U.S. inflation higher, Chicago Fed study finds, by Jonnelle Marte

News about business journalism 

ACBJ promotes Ellingson to ME for its digital cities

Curi now covering tech for Bloomberg Government

Adler, former American Banker DC bureau chief, joins AIR

Insider hires Melton as senior tech editor

Vengattil returned to Reuters to cover India tech news

Downs to cover Congress and agriculture for Agri-Pulse

Shen joins Bloomberg as crypto and defi reporter

WSJ’s Willick to join Washington Post as staff columnist

Yourmoney.com promotes Kubiak to editor

Axios taps Politico’s Bettelheim as senior health care editor

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