Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Twitter brings back election labels for 2020 US candidates, by Barbara Ortutay
Dozens apply to open marijuana businesses in now-legal Maine
CNN
Uber and other unicorns flopped on Wall Street this year. Will IPOs rebound in 2020?, by Paul R. La Monica
The world’s first 3D-printed neighborhood is being built in Mexico for families living on $3 a day, by Christina Zdanowicz
The Wall Street Journal
Trump Agrees to Limited Trade Deal With China, by Lingling Wei, Bob Davis, William Mauldin, Josh Zumbrun
Liberty Media Seeks to Increase Stake in iHeartMedia, by Anne Steele, Brent Kendall, Cara Lombardo
Axios
U.S. Army to fund rare-earth minerals facilities after China threat, by Jacob Knutson
Anti-trust uncertainty is the new normal for dealmakers, by Dan Primack
Reuters
U.S. labor board approves McDonald’s bid to settle case by franchise workers, by Daniel Wiessner
Wall Street hits records on hopes tariffs will be dropped, by Alden Bentley
News about business journalism
Essex departing Free Press for Omaha World-Herald
More than 200 Reuters stories blocked in China
How Reuters worked sources and documents to report on baby powder issues
Protocol hires for more tech journalists
Vice News appoints Banikarim as EVP
The future look of The Newseum?
Bloomberg editor Kessler joins presidential campaign
The Pacific Business News, an American City Business Journals publication, has hired Janis Magin Meierdiercks as…
Sadia Nowshin, a reporter at European startup news site Sifted, is leaving to join literary…
Variety has promoted Ethan Shanfeld to TV reporter. William Earl of Variety writes, "Shanfeld joins the entertainment…
Kasia Klimasinska is the new team leader for DC breaking news at Bloomberg News. She…
Paul Smalera has organized a gathering of James Ledbetter's friends and colleagues—open to all…
Real estate news service CoStar News has hired Rachel Scheier to cover the San Francisco commercial market.…