Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Airbnb shares more than double in price in long-awaited IPO, by Dee-Ann Durbin
EU leaders agree to reduce emissions after all-night talks, by Samuel Petrequin
CNN
Disney+ announcements are an ‘earth-shaking’ development in the streaming wars, by Brian Stelter
ECB unleashes $600 billion in new stimulus to prop up Europe’s economy, by Hanna Ziady
The Wall Street Journal
CEOs Pledge One Million Jobs for Black Americans, by Khadeeja Safdar
Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud, by Chip Cutter
CNBC
Merck CEO optimistic on Covid vaccines, sees at least 6 more months of social distancing and masks, by Kevin Stankiewicz
Lululemon earnings, sales top estimates on strong demand for workout gear, by Lauren Thomas
Reuters
Zurich and Farmers to buy MetLife U.S. P&C business for $3.94 billion, by Silke Koltrowitz
Ericsson files patent royalty lawsuit against Samsung in U.S.
News about business journalism
Hogan named Americas editor for The Economist
AP reporters win award for cosmetics working conditions investigation
Biz journalist King launches unemployed newsletter
Type Investigations, St. Louis America partner to hire business reporter
NAREE names winners in real estate journalism competition
FT’s McCrum named British Journalist of the Year for Wirecard coverage
