Categories: Media Moves

Talking Biz News Today — Sept. 6, 2018

Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

U.S. trade deficit widened to $50.1 billion in July, by Paul Wiseman

Judge cites picture of mice, lets lawsuit proceed, by Larry Neumeister

Bloomberg

Amex shares fall after report of FBI probe on forex pricing, by Kathleen Chiglinsky and Ivan Levingston

Tesla’s $1.8 billion of junk bonds hit lowest since 2017 sale, by Claire Boston and Natasha Rausch

Fortune

Goldman Sachs is reportedly backing off plans for a bitcoin trading desk, by Kevin Kelleher

Kratom Tea is the focus of a Florida lawsuit — and FDA scrutiny, by Brittany Shoot

Reuters 

Nasdaq falls as U.S. lawmakers grill Facebook, Twitter executives, by April Joyner

Trump says not ready to make trade deal with China, by Robert Rampton

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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