Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Toyota 2Q profit up 1% on healthy global sales, by Yuri Kageyama
California discloses Facebook probe, sues for documents, by Tali Arbel
CNN
Investors are dumping oil. So why would anyone buy Saudi Aramco?, by Julia Horowitz
Bad time to be a CEO: 170 top executives left last month, by Jordan Valinsky
The Wall Street Journal
U.S. Charges Former Twitter Employees With Spying for Saudi Arabia, by Aruna Viswanatha, Betsy Morris
Google Weighs Changes to Political Ad Policy, by Emily Glazer
Axios
San Francisco, home of Juul, votes to uphold e-cigarette ban, by Kia Kokalitcheva
Airbnb rolls out new efforts to make platform safer, by Courteney Brown
Reuters
China says it has agreed with U.S. to cancel tariffs in phases, by Yawen Chen, Martin Pollard
SoftBank Group shares slide over 4% after massive quarterly loss, by Chris Gallagher
News about business journalism
Minneapolis/St. Paul Biz Journal hires Phaneuf as data reporter
Bloomberg hires Ngui as reporter in Kuala Lumpur
Benveniste to join CNN Business as editor
Jackson hired as associate business editor for South Carolina paper
Dayna Fields has been hired by Octus, formerly known as Reorg, as a senior private credit…
Bloomberg News has hired Elizabeth Rembert to cover municipal finance. She will start Dec. 16 and be…
Michael Tsang, managing editor of the markets editing hub at Bloomberg News, sent out the…
Avi Asher-Schapiro, a tech correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation in Los Angeles, has been…
MLex has hired Maria Dinzeo as a senior data privacy and security reporter. She will start next…
ProPublica has hired Reuters cybersecurity reporter Christopher Bing as a reporter in its Washington bureau. He…