Some of Wednesday’s top business news stories:
The Wall Street Journal
Winter weather dings U.S. auto sales, by Anne Steele
BP’s earnings plunge amid oil-price slide, by Sarah Kent
Bloomberg
Fed wants to test how banks would handle negative rates, by Rich Miller
Tech giants are now global stock leaders, by Lu Wang
The Associated Press
Cheap oil buoys consumers, shakes up global governments
Super Bowl ads this year might be a snooze, by Mae Anderson
Reuters
Dow Chemical CEO Liveris to step down by mid-2017, by Swetha Gopinath and Amrutha Gayathri
Pfizer 2016 forecasts disappoint; shares fall, by Ransdell Pierson
Quartz
The latest weapon in the yogurt wars is stupid science, by Deena Shanker
WhatsApp has a billion users, and it got there way quicker than Gmail did, by Joon Ian Wong
News about business journalism:
EIC Owen Thomas leaving ReadWrite
“Wall Street Week” goes on hiatus, says “big news” coming
Bloomberg adds Barr, Rai and Wang to tech team
Wired, Bloomberg Businessweek win Ellies
Deseret News biz columnist ends run
This date in business journalism history:
2011: Cramer steps down as chair of TheStreet.com
2015: Net neutrality is coming
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