Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Once a shrine to a retailer’s brand, ‘flagships’ lose luster, by Anne D’Innocenzio
Expert wins settlement in whistleblower case against Cisco, by Frank Bajak
Fortune
London Stock Exchange Places $27 Billion Bet on a Data-Driven Future, by Viren Vaghela
Trump Offered Putin U.S. Help Fighting Wildfires, Kremlin Says, by Ilya Arkhipov, Josh Wingrove
The Wall Street Journal
Barclays Plans More Cost Cuts After Disappointing Quarter, by Margot Patrick
PG&E Denies Neglect of High-Voltage Lines in Response to Journal Article, by Rebecca Elliott
CNBC
The EU has new people in charge. And it’s not good news for US tech firms, by Silvia Amaro
Forget Tesla, thieves are targeting powerful cars and pickups, by Phil LeBeau
Reuters
Fed cuts interest rates, signals it may not need to do more, by Ann Saphir, Jason Lange
South Korean chip giants face ‘strangling’ from Japanese export curbs, by Heekyong Yang, Ju-min Park
News about business journalism
Cynthia Koons steps into enterprise reporting role at Bloomberg
Katherine Khashimova Long joins Seattle Times
Monica Chin joins Business Insider
Economics policy editor Reis leaves Washington Post for Rolling Stone
Bloomberg’s Talev joining Axios as political editor
