Talking Biz News Today – Nov. 18, 2015

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

The Wall Street Journal

Ethan Allen takes aim at activist’s nominees for its board, by James A. Hagerty

Wal-Mart U.S. sales strengthen, by Sarah Nassauer 

Quartz

Why the hotel industry isn’t afraid of Airbnb (yet), explained in five charts, by Alice Truong

Home Depot is the exception that proves the rule of the U.S. retail slowdown, by Melvin Backman

Bloomberg

Air Liquide to buy Airgas for $13.4 billion in cash, by Francois De Beaupuy 

FanDuel, DraftKings, Yahoo: Three ways to fight the law in New York, by Joshua Brustein 

The Associated Press

More Thanksgiving travelers; Don’t get stuck at the airport, by Scott Mayerowitz 

U.S. manufacturing output rises for first time in 3 months, by Christopher Rugaber 

Reuters

Wal-Mart earnings beat expectations; Shares up, by Nathan Layne

Home Depot third-quarter sales beat amid U.S. housing recovery, by Nandita Bose and Sruthi Ramakrishnan

News about business journalism:

Crain’s Cleveland hires health care reporter

Auto reporter leaves Bloomberg for Audi

Crain’s New York hires Goldensohn

Crain’s Detroit hires Snell to cover politics/Detroit

Quartz hires Groskopf as reporter on Things team

Bittman joins Fast Company as online columnist

Quartz hires Griswold as a business reporter

Bloomberg TV Canada launches

International Biz Times hires Perton to oversee tech content

WSJ hires FT’s Mackintosh to cover markets

This date in business journalism history:

2008: The life of a business freelancer

2014: When a divorce becomes a business story

Business journalism birthdays:

Nov. 18: Jonathan Blum

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