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Talking Biz News Today – July 16, 2019

Some of Tuesday’s top business stories:

CNBC:

Trump: We ‘will take a look’ into Peter Thiel’s claims of Google working with China, by Todd Haselton

This new business from Amazon represents a ‘$100 billion opportunity,’ Morgan Stanley says, by Michael Sheetz

Business Insider:

JPMorgan beats Wall Street’s targets with record quarterly profits, but equities revenue slumped, by Theron Mohamed

Tesla just slashed prices by nearly 8% and dropped some models in a bid to simplify its lineup, by Graham Rapier

Reuters:

Senate to grill Facebook over plans for Libra cryptocurrency, by Pete Schroeder and Katie Paul

Tech executives head to Capitol Hill for antitrust hearing, by Diane Bartz

CNN:

Ikea is closing its only US factory and moving production to Europe, by Julia Horowitz

How the Dow could zoom past 31,000 by the end of 2020, by Matt Egan

Bloomberg:

U.S. Retail Sales Post Broad Gains In June, by Reade Pickert and Katia Dmitrieva

BBC:

New face of the Bank of England’s £50 note is revealed as Alan Turing, by Kevin Peachey

News about business journalism:

The Sunday Business Post welcomes Oakley as new editor

Financial Times hires Miller as Frankfurt correspondent

Fontana moves into Exchange reporter role at WSJ

Kate Wood steps down as publisher of Nashville Business Journal

Ramnarayan joins Reuters as capital markets correspondent

Dow Jones content now available on Bloomberg terminals

Bloomberg Media launches Work Wise

CFO Journal deputy editor Shumsky departs

WSJ editors: Bloomberg move is all about enhancing Dow Jones Newswires

Forbes hires Rosenbaum as assistant editor of healthcare

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