Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Belt buckles and beer: Shutdown hits businesses hard, by Christopher Rugaber
Government shutdown strains emerge in U.S. air travel system, by David Koenig
Bloomberg
Starbucks is basically a China stock now, by Craig Giammona
Scotch for the price of a Tesla? Macallan’s has a 52-year-old bottle for you, by Craig Giammona
Fortune
PG&E stock surges 75% after California investigators clear the company in 2017 deadly Tubbs fire, by Kevin Kelleher
China’s private equity king says country’s economic slowdown has just begun, by Shawn Tully
Reuters
No-deal Brexit would cost Ford up to $1 billion, by Ben Klayman
Weak Intel outlook stokes fears of a chip slowdown, by Sonam Rai and Stephen Nellis
News about business journalism
Why tech news site The Verge is running fiction
Morning Consult’s Sabin moving to new beat
How the Tampa Bay Business Journal will integrate with Tampa Bay Inno
San Francisco Chronicle reports on fake press release about ex-PG&E CEO
How one NY Times reporter uses tech tools in his reporting
Bloomberg hires McClatchy’s Benjaminson to run tax team in DC
Washington Post hires Bloomberg’s Olorunippa
This date in business journalism
2014: Wall Street Journal reporter still missing
2009: Sitting in on a business journalism course
Business journalism birthday
Jan. 26: Christina Rexrode of The Wall Street Journal
