Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
How two friends made art history buying a $70M digital work, by Matt O’Brien, Kelvin Chan
US jobless claims fall to 684,000, fewest since pandemic, by Christopher Rugaber
CNN
America’s most powerful oil lobby is changing its tune on a carbon tax, by Matt Egan
H&M and Nike are facing a boycott in China, by Ben Westcott
The Wall Street Journal
Suez Canal Backlog Grows as Efforts Resume to Free Trapped Ship, by Costas Paris, Benoit Foucon
Lawmakers Hammer Tech CEOs for Online Disinformation, Lack of Accountability, by Ryan Tracy, John D. McKinnon
CNBC
Broadway could open in September, as New York lays out plans to vaccinate theater workers, by Sarah Whitten
More than half of individual investors think the stock market is rigged against them, survey finds, by Sarah O’Brien
Reuters
Uber to reopen San Francisco offices with limited capacity next week
New wave of ‘hacktivism’ adds twist to cybersecurity woes, by Joseph Menn
News about business journalism
STAT News journalists to join Boston Globe union
FT adds Mancini to its pharma beat, names Kuchler its global pharma reporter
Bloomberg’s Quicktake hits 7.4 million monthly viewers.
Bloomberg reporter Vasquez departs for grad school
Politico hires Reyes as head of health care team
Variety executive editor for TV Holloway is leaving for Amazon
NLRB runs against “Marketplace” media production staffers
Dallas Morning News hires Walters for money beat
WSJ parent is acquiring Investor’s Business Daily for $275 million
Wall Street Journal reporter Hannah Miao is moving to Singapore to cover the China economy.…
Financial Times reporter Simon Foy is now covering European banks. He has been covering accounting for the…
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Amber Kanwar, an anchor for BNN Bloomberg in Canada, is departing at the end of…
Moody's Ratings has promoted Yvette Kantrow to senior vice president and editor in chief. She has been…
Politico reporter Clare Fieseler is leaving the news organization to take on some ocean reporting projects. She…