Talking Biz News Today – Sept. 26, 2023

Some of Tuesday’s top business news stories:

The Associated Press

Boost in solar energy and electric vehicle sales gives hope for climate goals, report says, by Sibi Arasu

Biden will join the UAW strike picket line. Experts can’t recall the last time a president did that, by Seung Min Kim, Tom Krisher and Chris Megerian

CNN

Costco members now have access to $29 online health care visits, by Parija Kavilanz

US home prices rose in July to record-high levels, by Anna Bahney

The Wall Street Journal

Hollywood Writers’ Tentative Labor Deal Shifts Focus to Actors, by Joe Flint

China’s Business Environment Is Deteriorating, U.S. Companies Say, by Yuka Hayashi

CNBC

Pfizer restarts production at tornado-hit North Carolina plant, but drug supply will still be affected, by Annika Kim Constantino

Movie theater shares pop after writers, studios reach tentative labor deal, by Drew Richardson

Reuters

Dick’s Sporting Goods’ proposed holiday hiring slips to 8,600 amid higher labor costs

Amazon.com faces an array of US consumer, state antitrust lawsuits, by Mike Scarcella

News about business journalism:

Talking Biz News Today – Sept. 25, 2023

Real estate news site Estate Media raises $1.6 million

Greenwood, former Houston Biz Journal editor, joins Houston Landing

Morning Brew loses two top executives

Truong named biz editor of SF Standard

WSJ hires Ball as senior political correspondent

Reuters hires Labaran as editor

NY Times Investigations move, San Antonio’s reporter hire, Conde Nast’s British Vogue promotion

Kish joins The Oregonian to cover banks and apparel companies

SF Chronicle hires Waxmann to cover commercial real estate

Applications open for the FT’s African journalism fellowship