Talking Biz News Today – Oct. 29, 2015

Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

The Wall Street Journal

Fed signals interest rate increase ‘at its next meeting’ after standing pat, by Jon Hilsenrath

Walgreens says Rite Aid deal is about retail footprint, by Paul Ziobro and Chelsey Dulaney

Quartz

Volkswagen’s new CEO can feel your pain, by Jason Karaian

Ferrari’s first batch of earnings as a public company were good, but not good enough, by Ashley Rodriguez

Bloomberg

Top 100 CEO retirement savings equals 41% of U.S. families, by Jesse Drucker, Carol Hymowitz and Caleb Melby

Ford to offer deeper year-end discounts in market-share push, by Keith Naughton

The Associated Press

Walgreens, Rite Aid combo to spread drugstore health kick, by Tom Murphy

Will they or won’t they? Analysts mull odds of Fed rate hike

Reuters

Icahn take stake in AIG, calls for breakup, by Michael Flaherty and Richa Naidu

Twitter’s results show its turnaround Moment still far off, by Anya George Tharakan

News about business journalism:

Bloomberg puts New Yorker cartoon in meeting rooms

AP names team leader for breaking news

AP assistant biz editor Patterson leaving for USA Today

Examining the business of CNBC

How Ed Silverman’s Pharmalot blog has built reader loyalty

Does media coverage help a startup get funding?

This date in business journalism history:

2007: TheStreet.com survives when bigger players enter the market

2014: NYTimes killing auto section, come content moving to biz section

Business journalism birthdays:

Oct. 29: Ali Velshi of Al Jazeera

Oct. 29: Ellen Byron with The Wall Street Journal