Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
World stocks mixed as year-end news, by Youkyung Lee
Legal weed hurts prognosis for California medical pot market, by John Rogers
Bloomberg
Bitcoin tumbles over exchange-closure fears, by Kyungji Cho and Eric Lam
Bond giants lay out their top trades for 2018, by Brian Chappatta and John Gittelsohn
Fortune
Are Facebook, Google, Twitter ads manipulating consumers? Washington wants to know, by Lucinda Shen
What’s on tap for Walt Disney in 2018? by Tom Huddleston Jr.
Reuters
Apple and Amazon in talks to set up in Saudi Arabia, by Katie Paul
Wall Street set to rise in muted holiday trading, by Sruthi Shankar
News about business journalism
CNBC to start selling ads on voice assistant devices
Auto reporter/columnist Brown leaving Washington Post
Is Apple the next to face the cover jinx?
O’Connor leaving Forbes for new job
Al Omran, ex-WSJ reporter, joins Financial Times
Brown promoted to co-editor of The Deal
Sozzi promoted to executive editor of TheStreet
This date in business journalism
2012: Assessing CNBC’s “Rise Above” campaign
2007: Vlasic joins NYT as Detroit bureau chief
Business journalism birthday
Dec. 28: Alistair Barr of Bloomberg News
Dec. 28: Bertha Coombs of CNBC
Dec. 28: Lou Harry of Indianapolis Business Journal
