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Talking Biz News Today — Aug. 23, 2018

Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

S&P 500 marks longest bull run on mixed day for indexes, by Alex Veiga

For many young investors, the stock market’s only gone up, by Stan Choe

Bloomberg

Driverless startup Zoox suddenly removes CEO, by Mark Bergen and Ashlee Vance

Facebook suspends 400 apps in developer data investigation, by Sarah Frier

Fortune

The legal marijuana market is catching up to beer and wine, by Erin Corbett

Disney offers to pay school tuition for tens of thousands of hourly workers, by Brittany Shoot

Reuters 

Fed officials suggest rates likely to rise soon, worry about trade war, by Jason Lange

Aramco listing plan halted; oil giant disbands advisors, by Clara Denina, Alex Lawler and Marwa Rashad

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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