Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Once a shrine to a retailer’s brand, ‘flagships’ lose luster, by Anne D’Innocenzio
Expert wins settlement in whistleblower case against Cisco, by Frank Bajak
Fortune
London Stock Exchange Places $27 Billion Bet on a Data-Driven Future, by Viren Vaghela
Trump Offered Putin U.S. Help Fighting Wildfires, Kremlin Says, by Ilya Arkhipov, Josh Wingrove
The Wall Street Journal
Barclays Plans More Cost Cuts After Disappointing Quarter, by Margot Patrick
PG&E Denies Neglect of High-Voltage Lines in Response to Journal Article, by Rebecca Elliott
CNBC
The EU has new people in charge. And it’s not good news for US tech firms, by Silvia Amaro
Forget Tesla, thieves are targeting powerful cars and pickups, by Phil LeBeau
Reuters
Fed cuts interest rates, signals it may not need to do more, by Ann Saphir, Jason Lange
South Korean chip giants face ‘strangling’ from Japanese export curbs, by Heekyong Yang, Ju-min Park
News about business journalism
Cynthia Koons steps into enterprise reporting role at Bloomberg
Katherine Khashimova Long joins Seattle Times
Monica Chin joins Business Insider
Economics policy editor Reis leaves Washington Post for Rolling Stone
Bloomberg’s Talev joining Axios as political editor
Former CoinDesk editorial staffer Michael McSweeney writes about the recent happenings at the cryptocurrency news site, where…
Manas Pratap Singh, finance editor for LinkedIn News Europe, has left for a new opportunity…
Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray sent out the following on Friday: Dear All, Over the last…
The Financial Times has hired Barbara Moens to cover competition and tech in Brussels. She will start…
CNBC.com deputy technology editor Todd Haselton is leaving the news organization for a job at The Verge.…
Note from CNBC Business News senior vice president Dan Colarusso: After more than 27 years…