Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
U.S. retail sales slide 0.3 percent, largest drop in 16 months, by Paul Wiseman
Stocks slip as investors seek safety, by Marley Jay
Bloomberg
Half of America’s nuclear power plants seen as money losers, by Jim Polson
The global economy is rebounding, but there’s one big problem, by Chris Anstey and Enda Curran
Fortune
Fox News is ditching “fair and balanced” as its slogan, by Madeline Farber
Instacart will deliver for yet another grocery chain, by David Z. Morris
Reuters
Uber’s open COO job in the spotlight amid leadership void, by Heather Somerville
GE merges power units as executive who lost out on GE CEO job retires, by Alwyn Scott
News about business journalism
Las Vegas Business Press shuts print publication
AME Damato among those cut at Money
WSJ makes changes to financial coverage
WSJ hires Podkul from ProPublica
Senior writer Ingram laid off at Fortune
Wired hires features editor, senior writer
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