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Talking Biz News Today — November 4, 2019

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Saudi Arabia formally starts IPO of oil firm Saudi Aramco, by Jon Gambrell, Malak Harb

Trump now has opening to pull US out of Paris climate pact, by Seth Borenstein

Fortune

McDonald’s CEO Pushed Out After Relationship with Employee, by Cathy Bussewitz, Deen-Ann Durbin

Uber’s Business Service Ramps Up In Quest to Attract More ‘Sticky’ Customers, by Danielle Abril

CNN

Berkshire Hathaway’s cash pile soars to $128 billion with Warren Buffett yet to make big acquisition, by Victoria Cavaliere

With the Apple Card, Goldman Sachs has lent out about $10 billion in credit, by Shannon Liao

The Wall Street Journal

Under Armour Is Subject of Federal Accounting Probes, by Aruna Viswanatha, Khadeeja Safdar

Younger Workers Report Seeing More Discrimination, by kathryn Dill

CNBC

Consumers can’t get enough Bentley, Lamborghini and Rolls-Royce SUVs, by Mack Hogan

More airports consider going off the grid as power outages ground flights, by Harriet Baskas

Reuters

Big central banks move to wait-and-see mode, by Howard Schneider, Francesco Canepa, Leika Kihara

Instacart workers protest as pressure mounts on gig companies, by Lisa Baertlein

News about business journalism

Gabriel hired as New York Crain’s publisher, executive editor

Canadian-based The Logic raises $1.8 million

Cybersecurity reporter Janofsky departs WSJ

BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith to talk at CJF J-Talk

Axios hires Allen-Ebrahimian as China reporter

Thomson Reuters brushes off suitors for the news wire

Moriarty hired as chief content officer of Investment News

India-based company drops libel claim against Financial Times

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