Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Downturn in energy production hits budgets in six states, by Christina A. Cassidy
Senate Democrats propose $1 trillion infrastructure plan, by Joan Lowy
Bloomberg
Goldman lets Cohn collect $123.7 million en route to White House, by Dakin Campbell and Anders Melin
Mnuchin backs Fed independence and signals reform isn’t a priority, by Craig Torres and Saleha Mohsin
Fortune
Cards Against Humanity is trying to recruit Obama as CEO, by Laura Covello
Martin Shkreli just went to war against the pharmaceutical industry, by Sy Mukherjee
Reuters
PepsiCo using new Super Bowl ad to launch premium water brand, by Tim Bayslinger
S&P 500, Nasdaq set records as tech, banks lead, by Chuck Mikolajczak
News about business journalism
Rochester paper makes changes to biz news coverage
Cunniff, former AP business reporter, dies at 87
Reynolds, ex-executive editor at Bloomberg, hired as ME for Reorg Research
How Bloomberg Media is getting homepage traffic
The date in business journalism
