Some of Monday’s top business news stories:
The Associated Press
Lights out, ovens off: Europe preps for winter energy crisis, by David McHugh, Justin Spike, Karel Janicek and Veselin Toshkov
Amazon to hold holiday shopping event in October, by Haleluya Hadero
CNN
Marc Benioff would buy Twitter if he could, by Paul R. La Monica
British pound plummets to record low against the dollar, by Laura He, Jessie Yeung and Jonny Hallam
The Wall Street Journal
The U.S. Is Running Short of Land for Housing, by Konrad Putzier
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway Could Be Among Top Payers of New Minimum Tax, by Richard Rubin and Theo Francis
CNBC
Costco isn’t raising membership fees after earnings beat expectations, by Jack Stebbins
Reuters
McDonald’s hikes prices in Japan on higher input costs, weaker yen
Instacart cuts staff, curbs hiring before IPO, The Information reports
News about business journalism:
Mansueto Ventures strikes deal for Australia edition of Inc.
Examining the Forbes Australia strategy
Monks named US deals team leader at Bloomberg
Henry named special projects editor at Wired
Southall to cover the cannabis beat for NY Times
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Sadia Nowshin, a reporter at European startup news site Sifted, is leaving to join literary…
Variety has promoted Ethan Shanfeld to TV reporter. William Earl of Variety writes, "Shanfeld joins the entertainment…
Kasia Klimasinska is the new team leader for DC breaking news at Bloomberg News. She…
Paul Smalera has organized a gathering of James Ledbetter's friends and colleagues—open to all…
Real estate news service CoStar News has hired Rachel Scheier to cover the San Francisco commercial market.…