Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
US government works to ‘cocoon’ old nuclear reactors, by Nicholas K. Geranios
Fed pulls back economic aid in face of rising uncertainties, by Christopher Rugaber
CNN
Global finance pledge could mean $100 trillion for the climate. Now for the hard part, by Charles Riley
IPOs are having their best year ever — even better than the dot com boom, by Paul R. La Monica
The Wall Street Journal
Qualcomm Posts Record Sales Amid Surging Demand for 5G Smartphones, by Meghan Bobrowsky
Deere Says It’s Done Bargaining After Striking Workers Reject Second Contract Offer, by Bob Tita
CNBC
Ford’s U.S. sales continued to recover from chip shortage in October, by Michael Wayland
Bill Gates doubts goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees is achievable, by Anmar Fragoul
News about business journalism
Crain’s New York names Bryan its ME, hires three from WSJ
New York’s Intelligencer hires Dugan to cover markets and money
Goldman joins Modern Healthcare as a reporter
South Florida Biz Journal hires Bojnansky as emerging markets real estate reporter
Bloomberg hires Protocol’s Williams to cover enterprise software
North Carolina biz journal hires Still as reporter
New Quad Cities biz journal set to launch
Crain’s Cleveland names Scalzo its sports business reporter
Fleming joins Bloomberg as breaking news editor
LA Times taps Contreras to cover internet platforms and influencers
WSJ hires Baxter to be editor of “The Journal” podcast
Forbes strikes deal for editions in Peru and Chile
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…