Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Dow nears 20,000 as energy and tech stocks climb, by Marley Jay
Feds slap curbs on Wells Fargo, find “living will” lacking, by Marcy Gordon
Bloomberg
Silicon Valley needs 2017 to be a blockbuster year for IPOs, by Alex Barinka
Cars would be required to talk to each other under U.S. plan, by Alan Levin and Todd Shields
Fortune
Disney needs “Star Wars: Rogue One” to be a box office force, by Tom Huddleston Jr.
Amazon Go is proof that business partnerships rarely work, by Howard Yu
Reuters
Slack data management exposed BP to high safety risk, by Ron Bousso
GM asks Supreme Court to reverse ignition switch claims ruling, by Nate Raymond
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