Talking Biz News Today — Jan. 15, 2020

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

NSA finds major security flaw in Windows 10, free fix issued, by Matt O’Brien

Banks post big profits, but lower interest rates are a worry, by Ken Sweet

CNN

Boeing reports more cancellations than new orders for 2019, by Chris Isidore

Americans’ wine consumption dropped for the first time in 25 years, by Jordan Valinsky

The Wall Street Journal

Google Chrome to Phase Out Third-Party Cookies in Effort to Boost Privacy, by Bowdeya Tweh, Sahil Patel

MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay Real Estate to Be Sold to JV Including Blackstone, by Katherine Sayre, Miriam Gottfried, Cara Lombardo

CNBC

Comcast launches accelerator for sports start-ups that could give it a leg up on new technology, by Jabari Young

SmileDirectClub stock rises 15% on news it will sell its aligners to orthodontists and dentists, by Sunny Kim

Reuters

Spain’s Banco Sabadell hires IBM for 1 billion euro IT upgrade, by Inti Landauro

Citigroup beats estimates on credit card, trading revenue growth, by C Nivedita, Imani Moise

News about business journalism

Trump administration wants to limit media access to economic data

Loeb Awards are now accepting entries

Abadi named editor on “Business Insider Today” show

British government secretly backed Reuters in ’60s and ’70s

American Banker hires Kline as reporter

FT hires Peter Foster as public policy editor

Braun named policy reporter at Politico

Bloomberg reporter Bergen to write book on YouTube

Lim to cover FDA/medical devices for Politico

NY Times Asia biz editor to be its deputy Asia editor

The Economist hires Cohn as president

Radio station severs ties with Crain’s Chicago

Business Insider names Whateley as editorial fellow

Ryan to cover Airbus at Bloomberg News

Bloomberg reporter Darie to cover leveraged finance

Bloomberg names Mitra as municipal bonds intern