Some of Wednesday’s top business headlines
New York Times
Reaping profit after assisting on health law, by Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Wall Street Journal
FedEx earnings: Profit up 6.5% on higher margins, ground-shipping strength, by Nathalie Tadena
Starbucks declares guns unwelcome, but doesn’t ban them, by Julie Jargon
Bloomberg
Bernanke saves companies $700 billion as Verizon leads sales, by Lisa Abramowicz
Yellen as labor favorite seen pressing Fed emphasis on stimulus, by Caroline Salas Gage and Steve Matthews
Bloomberg Businessweek
Boehner gets it over with, agrees to tie overall budget to Obamacare funding, by Joshua Green
Why Microsoft keeps on buying investors’ faith, by Ashlee Vance
Reuters
U.S. CEOs less optimistic about economy – survey, by Bijoy Koyitty
Britain’s productivity gap with G7 peers widest in 20 years, by Christina Fincher
CNNMoney
IOS 7 is here: A whole new iPhone experience, by Adrian Covert
Home care workers win minimum wage protection, by Emily Jane Fox
Today in business journalism
Biz journal founder receives entrepreneurship award
Reuters Next cancelled, Roberts leaving company
WSJ names senior finance reporter in Europe
WSJ beefs up its Europe finance team
WSJ’s “Heard on the Street” names Europe editors
Markets calm before Federal Reserve
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2006: Times: H-P tried to plant bug on journalist’s computer
2011: Bloomberg Radio available on iPhone and iPod
