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Talking Biz News Today — September 18, 2019

Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Gas customers are casualties in fight over new pipelines, by Mary Esch

FedEx profit falls, company cites uncertainty over trade, by David Koenig

Fortune

Ironclad, the ‘Salesforce for Lawyers,’ Raises $50 Million, by Jeff John Roberts

Congress Is Investigating Private Equity’s Role in Huge Medical Bills, by Sy Mukherjee

The Wall Street Journal

Fed Intervenes to Curb Soaring Short-Term Borrowing Costs, by Nick Timiraos, Daniel Kruger

U.S. Army Tries New Recruiting Tactics After Missing Targets, by Ben Kesling

CNBC

Department store stocks fall amid rising oil prices and worries about consumer spending, by Jasmine Wu

‘Seinfeld’ could be the last ‘white whale’ TV show for Netflix to snag, by Sarah Whitten

Reuters

Britain to investigate $5 billion U.S. takeover of defense firm Cobham, by Kate Holton

Nissan plans sale of Trading unit in $1 billion deal: Bloomberg, by Ann Maria Shibu, Reuters

News about business journalism

How CNBC’s Farr ferrets out good health tech stories

Daily Journal of Commerce Oregon reporter Visser returning to Seattle

Wong returns to reporting for BuzzFeed

Salchert joins Dallas Biz Journal to cover real estate

FreightWaves hires Kulisch from Automotive News

WSJ adds three to publishing desk, promotes another

Wired hires Knight to cover artificial intelligence

New staff hired at innovation news site The Logic

Greenfield has new role overseeing Bloomberg diversity coverage

Globe and Mail’s McCarthy joins Sussex Strategy Group

Duhaime-Ross to host new podcast called “Reset” about tech and science

Jerde takes on new role as publishing editor at Adweek

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