Monday’s top business stories:
Reuters
Iranian bank sues UK government for $4 billion over sanctions: court filing, by Clare Hutchison
New York Times
Labor regroups in South after VW vote, by Steven Greenhouse
Saving an endangered British species: The pub, by Danny Hakim
Bloomberg
Asian stocks advance on record new lending in China, by Jonathan Burgos
Obama promising millions in aid for California’s drought, by Roger Runningen and Margaret Talev
Businessweek
To Apple, from a deadly and devastated slice of paradise, by Cam Simpson
Treasury approves bank accounts for pot businesses. Will banks go along? by Karen Weise
Forbes
Bye, Black Friday? Presidents Day has better online sale deals. by Clare O’Connor
Today in business journalism
Bartiromo lining up big interviews for Fox Business
Forbes website hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
Angelo Henderson, Pulitzer winner for WSJ, dies at 51
The Wrap adds staff members
Einhorn wants Seeking Alpha to disclose name of writer
This date in business journalism history
2007: New biz magazine launching in Utah
2013: Business Insider names Weisenthal as executive editor
Business journalism birthdays
Feb. 15: Lisa Richwine of Reuters, Adrienne Carter of the NY Times’ DealBook, Scott Wapner of CNBC
Feb. 16: Mary Schlangenstein of Bloomberg News
Feb. 17: Dick Tofel of ProPublica, George Hohman, retired West Virginia business editor.
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