Some of Monday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Business economists less optimistic about next year’s growth, by Martin Crutsinger
Critics question utility’s bitcoin-mining data center
CNN
Everything is still getting more expensive, by Julia Horowitz
Nearly half of American companies say they are short on skilled workers, by Anneken Tappe
The Wall Street Journal
Tax on Billionaires’ Unrealized Gains Will Likely Be in Budget Package, Democrats Say, by Kristina Peterson, Richard Rubin
Home Prices Rise, and Single People Are Running Out of Houses to Buy, by Julia Carpenter
CNBC
Movie ticket sales have topped 2020′s paltry box office, but still trail 2019′s haul by 70%, by Sarah Whitten
Walmart’s corporate workers will return to the office in early November, by Melissa Repko
Reuters
PayPal says is not pursuing acquisition of Pinterest
Tesla pulls its new Full Self-Driving beta due to software ‘issues’, by Marcelo Teixeira, Hyunjoo Jin
News about business journalism
Topeka biz reporter Yarborough joins local business partnership
SABEW, South Carolina name recipients of Morrow Scholarship
Insider hires Lalljee to cover economy policy
Axios hires Moriarty of Investment News as senior editor
Ad Age hires Wingate to cover agencies
Insider hires Lazzaro as editor for enterprise and tech coverage
Michaud joins Crain’s New York as AME
Times Radio signs O’Connell as biz correspondent
Bloomberg’s Cai joins Axios politics team
Bloomberg appoints Winters editor in Singapore
Fair to oversee regional legal industry coverage for Law360 Pulse
