Some of Friday’s most important business stories:
Bloomberg
Bernanke sees headwinds fading as U.S. poised to grow, by Joshua Zumbrun and Steve Matthews
December auto sales miss estimates as cold slows shoppers, by Mark Clothier and Craig Trudell
New York Times
Regulator of Wall Street loses its hard-charging chairman, by Ben Protess
Wired
Love or hate mutant cereal, GMO-free Cheerios are an empty gesture, by Marcus Wohlsen
CNNMoney
AT&T offers T-Mobile customers $450 to switch, by Jose Pagliery
BlackBerry sues Ryan Seacrest startup Typo, by Julianne Pepitone
Forbes
IRS: New year, new rules, by Kelly Phillips Erb
Businessweek
Bad news for Obamacare: More insurance sends more patients to pricey ERs, by Drake Bennett
And in local news:
Business Insider
One state has seen 10-straight years of more people moving into it than leaving, by Rob Wile
Today in business journalism
Business Insider turned down $100M-plus offer
Re/code looking to hire tech journalists
Johnson, WSJ reporter in Canada, leaving paper
WaPo economics columnist Klein planning to leave
Labor Department needs to improve data release to media
Predicting the markets in 2014
This date in business journalism history
2006: Financial Times editor dies suddenly
2011: Bartiromo loses 40% of demo viewers
Business journalism birthdays:
Jan. 3: James Steele of Vanity Fair
Jan. 3: Wade Roush of Xconomy