Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Opioid industry presses for settlement as trial looms, by Mark Gillispie, Geoff Mulvihill
Netflix heads into showdown with slowing subscriber growth, by Michael Liedtke
Fortune
Roughly $240 Billion in Corporate Tax Goes Unpaid. There’s a New Plan to Fix That, by Adrian Croft
How Would You Spend a Universal Basic Income? We Asked Participants Around the World—and Their Answers Might Surprise You, by Eric J. Lyman
CNN
Europe deploys new weapon in its antitrust fight with Big Tech, Charles Riley
Volvo’s first fully electric car will also be one of its safest cars ever, by Peter Valdes-Dapen
The Wall Street Journal
Authentic Brands Teams With Saks to Bid for Barneys, by Soma Biswas
Nestlé to Refresh Bottled-Water Business as Sales Turn Flat, by Saabira Chaudhuri
Reuters
Tesla gets approval to start manufacturing in China, by Brenda Goh, Yilei Sun
Pernod Ricard mulls price hikes in U.S. post tariffs, by Dominique Vidalon
News about business journalism
Staff face layoffs as Reach restructures
Austin moves to business side of WSJ
The iPhone is indispensable for this media reporter
Skift hires Trejos as hospitality editor
Bloomberg TV staffer Subramaniam leaves
Hearst to operate digital Autoweek, print ends
Forbes taps Kroll to be executive editor
News Corp. CEO Thomson’s compensation rose 13 percent in FY19
New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn sent out the following on Thursday: Without a doubt, the…
Helen Reis has joined SoFi as deputy newsletter editor for its new On the Money…
The Financial Times has announced the appointment of Jay Rayner as restaurant critic, Tim Hayward…
Dow Jones Newswires has launched its first artificial intelligence-enabled language service. The Dow Jones Korean…
Jon Delano, money and politics editor for KDKA-TV since 2001, will retire on Dec. 1.…
Bloomberg News journalist Megan Howard is joining its financial regulation team. She has been team leader for…