Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Trump heads to Swiss forum to push economic policies, by Catherine Lucey
Technology stocks sink, pulling indexes lower; dollar falls, by Marley Jay
Bloomberg
History suggests Mnuchin’s dollar rhetoric could backfire, by Lananh Nguyen
Broker fined for impersonating rival with online sex ads, by Matt Robinson
Fortune
Meg Whitman appointed CEO of Jeff Katzenberg’s mobile media startup, by Jonathan Vanian
GE’s meltdown might be the best thing to happen to it, by Geoff Colvin
Reuters
Ford says commodity prices hurt, unfit versus industry peers, by Nick Carey and Paul Lienart
Scaramucci hits pause button on Las Vegas hedge fund party, by Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Lawrence Delevingne
News about business journalism
Tech journalist Fruhlinger, Thinknum to produce stories from data
CNBC.com names Thomas a retail reporter
WSJ hires Wired’s Pierce as its personal tech columnist
Ex-Miami Herald biz reporter Dahlberg now at Palm Beach Tech
Tampa Bay Business Journal names new publisher
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