Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Slide in banks, energy firms weighs on U.S. stock indexes, by Alex Veiga
Government acts to stop high-tax states from skirting $10K cap, by Marcy Gordon and Geoff Mulvihill
Bloomberg
Elon Musk hires Morgan Stanley to help take Tesla private, by Dana Hull and Sonali Basak
Venmo considers making it harder to see what other people are buying, by Julie Verhage
Fortune
Apple has reportedly hired 46 employees from Tesla this year, by Kevin Kelleher
Facial recognition technology catches imposter at airport, by Glenn Fleishman
Reuters
Fed policymakers see rate hikes, blurring dove-hawk divide, by Ann Saphir
Drop in U.S. jobless claims points to market strength, by Jason Lange
News about business journalism
Minneapolis/St. Paul Biz Journal hires Wittenberg to cover real estate, manufacturing
Kiplinger hires Pedersen as writer and fact checker
Chicago Tribune biz reporter Bomkamp joins PR firm
Wichita Biz Journal reporter Heck leaves after 10 years
Dallas Biz Journal promotes Butler to AME
This date in business journalism
2013: Is the WSJ guilty of plagiarism?
2008: The queen of oil reporters
Business journalism birthday
Aug. 24: Polina Marinova of Fortune