Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are among 6 nations set to join the BRICS economic bloc, by Gerald Imray and Mogomotsi Magome
Hopeful signs of an economic ‘soft landing’ emerge in Jackson Hole as Fed meets with world watching, by Christopher Rugaber
America added 306,000 fewer jobs last year than we thought. But the labor market is still hot, by Alicia Wallace
Nvidia’s quarterly sales double on the back of AI boom, by Clare Duffy and Samantha Delouya
Nielsen Plans to Incorporate Amazon’s Data on ‘Thursday Night Football’ Viewership, by Joe Flint
Target Goes Local to Speed Up Order Deliveries, by Liz Young
CVS pushes into making cheaper versions of complex drugs with new discount Humira, by Bertha Coombs
Nike falls for record 10th straight day as Foot Locker woes, China slowdown hit stock, by Gabrielle Fonrouge
UK supermarket Asda launches fresh round of price cuts
Google vows more transparency on ads as new EU rules kick in, by Foo Yun Chee
Bloomberg Law’s Gilbert to cover intellectual property
Dallas Biz Journal editor Schnick departing
Fund that used CNBC’s Cramer picks is closing
The Messenger hires Rennie as breaking news editor on the biz team
Russia asks to extend pretrial detention of WSJ’s Gershkovich
Politico adds data whiz, CNN’s new election reporter, Russia cracks down on UK journos
Press oppression continues as Russia blacklists BBC, Guardian and Telegraph journalists
Franklin News Foundation acquires Illinois-based Advanced Digital Media
Former Business Insider executive editor Rebecca Harrington has been hired by Dynamo to be its…
Bloomberg Television has hired Brenda Kerubo as a desk producer in London. She will be covering Europe's…
In a meeting at CNBC headquarters Thursday afternoon, incoming boss Mark Lazarus presented a bullish…
Ritika Gupta, the BBC's North American business correspondent, was interviewed by Global Woman magazine about…
Rest of World has hired Kinling Lo as a China reporter. Lo was previously a…
Bloomberg News saw strong unique visitor growth to its website in October, passing Fox Business…