Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Disney results miss as Fox studio business underwhelm, Mae Anderson
FDA says Novartis withheld data problem before drug approval, by Linda A. Johnson
Bloomberg
German Industry Suffered Worst Annual Drop in a Decade in June, by Kristie Pladson
Glencore Puts a Floor on Cobalt by Halting Mine as Profits Sink, by Thomas Biesheuvel
CNBC
Walgreens to close 200 US stores, by Angelica LaVito
Nike acquires A.I. platform Celect, hoping to better predict shopping behavior, by Lauren Thomas
The Wall Street Journal
Amazon Mail-Order Pharmacy Faces Pushback, by Joseph Walker
America’s Pension Funds Fell Short in 2019, by Heather Gillers
Reuters
Twitter says it may have used user data for ads without permission, by Ismail Shakil
Toyota turns to AI startup to accelerate goal of robots for the home, by Kevin Buckland
News about business journalism
Longtime biz journalist Robichaux joins Brunswick
Gurley joins Motherboard as a staff writer
The Markup rehires Angwin as editor
CNBC.com hires two new reporters
Seattle Biz magazine editor Smith promoted
Apollo Global Management takes on newspaper debt
Daniel Schafer is now German bureau chief at Bloomberg
Kesling returns to Chicago for WSJ
Vogue Business welcomes Hilary Milnes
Former Business Insider executive editor Rebecca Harrington has been hired by Dynamo to be its…
Bloomberg Television has hired Brenda Kerubo as a desk producer in London. She will be covering Europe's…
In a meeting at CNBC headquarters Thursday afternoon, incoming boss Mark Lazarus presented a bullish…
Ritika Gupta, the BBC's North American business correspondent, was interviewed by Global Woman magazine about…
Rest of World has hired Kinling Lo as a China reporter. Lo was previously a…
Bloomberg News saw strong unique visitor growth to its website in October, passing Fox Business…