Here is what business journalists are focusing on Thursday as their top stories:
Wall Street Journal top headlines:
Stocks, bonds sell off, by Kaitlyn Kierman and Min Zeng
Dell reports earnings after the close, by Brian Fitzgerald
Financial Times top headlines:
Wal-Mart sales drop signals gloomier outlook for consumers, by Barney Jopson
Cisco cuts jobs on “inconsistent” global demand, by April Dembosky
Bloomberg News top headlines:
U.S. net outflow of long-term securities rises to $66.9 billion, by Meera Louis
Consumer comfort in U.S. drops from more than five-year high, by Alexandra Baca
Reuters top headlines:
U.S. jobs, inflation data support tapering of Fed bond buying, by Lucia Mutikani
Buffett’s Berkshire buys Suncor, Dish as stocks appeal, by Jonathan Stempel and Tanya Agrawal
CNNMoney top headlines:
Carl Icahn is having an amazing year, by Hibah Yousuf
High speed trading puts investors on losing end, by Maureen Farrell
New York Times top headlines:
Old economies rise as growing markets begin to falter, by Nathaniel Popper
Intermittent nature of green power is problem for utilities, by Diane Cardwell
This date in business journalism:
2012: Comcast ordered to put Bloomberg Television next to other business news networks (Bloomberg is still fighting Comcast to enforce the order.)
2008: Atlanta Constitution names new business editor, new business columnist (Andre Jackson now is an editorial page editor, while the business editor is now Matt Kempner.)
