Some of Monday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Amid COVID, many businesses in precarious spot as 2020 ends, by Joyce M. Rosenberg
Trump administration targets diversity hiring by contractors, by Matt O’Brien, Alexandra Olson
CNN
Online shopping has been turbocharged by the pandemic. There’s no going back, by Charles Riley
The pandemic is driving a boom in investments to fix the climate crisis, by Streisand Neto
The Wall Street Journal
Silicon Valley Pay Cuts Ignite Tech-Industry Covid-19 Tensions, by Katherine Bindley, Eliot Brown
Levi’s, Hilfiger Push a New Kind of Online Shopping. It Looks a Lot Like QVC., by Suzanna Kapner
CNBC
Big-box retailers like Walmart, Target try to beat Amazon on speed by focusing on curbside pickup, by Melissa Repko
Apple is about to hold ‘the most significant iPhone event in years’, by Kif Leswing
Reuters
Exclusive: TikTok rival Triller explores deal to go public – sources, by Joshua Franklin, Echo Wang
Aviation contractors axed jobs as U.S. delayed aid, House panel finds, by Tracy Rucinski
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