Talking Biz News Today – Oct. 23, 2015

Some of Friday’s top business news stories:

The Wall Street Journal

McDonald’s shares hit record as turnaround shows progress, by Julie Jargon

U.S. investigates Venezuelan oil giant, by José De Córdoba and Juan Forero

Quartz

Theranos still hasn’t provided the one thing that could reassure doubters for good, by Max Nisen

Subway agrees to measure its footlong subs to make sure they’re really 12 inches, by Svati Kirsten Narula

Bloomberg

Google profit, sales top estimates on robust web traffic, by Jack Clark

Americans’ outlook for U.S. economy declines to a 13-month low, by Ali Donaldson

The Associated Press

Amazon 3Q results up on strong sales, cloud computing growth, by Mae Anderson

U.S. home sales rebound in September after August slump, by Josh Boak

Reuters

Microsoft quarterly revenue beats as cloud demand rises, by Devika Krishna Kumar and Arathy S Nair

AT&T revenue beats Street on more prepaid subscriber additions, by Kshitiz Goliya and Sudarshan Varadhan

News about business journalism:

Morningstar drops service used by business journalists

Bloomberg TV expands “Bloomberg West” and “With All Due Respect” to one hour

Business Insider to put paywall around some content

CNBC’s digital operations posts record September

Quartz racks up 45 million video views in six months

This date in business journalism history:

2012: Life on the wealth beat like any other biz news beat

2013: WSJ’s Baker on going from “newspaper people” to “digital natives”

Business journalism birthdays:

Oct. 23: Renee Dudley with Reuters

Oct. 23: Anthony Schoettle with Indianapolis Business Journal