Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Powell says he favors loosening some bank regulations, by Martin Crutsinger
Hacker-for-hire pleads guilty to Yahoo breach, by Sudhin Thanawala
Bloomberg
AT&T made a futile 11th-hour offer to sway DOJ, by Ed Hammond and Scott Moritz
Why battery cost could put the brake on electric car sales, by Chisaki Watanabe
Fortune
Black Friday dead? 174 million Americans disagree, by Phil Wahba
Apple joins growing list of tech firms offering “returnships” to moms who left workplace, by Claire Zillman
Reuters
Bitcoin tops $10,000 in some exchanges, by Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss
Asia shares track Wall Street rise, wary on North Korea, by Wayne Cole
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