Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Technology could cut train crews from 2 to 1 but is it safe?, by Josh Funk
Microsoft: ‘carbon-negative’ by 2030 even for supply chain, by Matt O’Brien
Fortune
U.S. brands think they understand China’s market, but a new report says they don’t, by Grady McGregor
World leaders finally accept the economic risk of climate change, but business chiefs are a holdout, by Katherine Dunn
CNN
Google owner Alphabet is now worth $1 trillion, by Paul R. La Monica
Nestlé is spending billions to create a market for recycled plastics, by Hanna Ziady
The Wall Street Journal
Facebook Backs Off Controversial Plan to Sell Ads in WhatsApp, by Jeff Horwitz, Kirsten Grind
AB InBev Taps Machine Learning to Root Out Corruption, by Dylan Tokar
Reuters
Fiat Chrysler and Foxconn plan push into Chinese electric car market, by Giulio Piovaccari
Senate passes North America trade deal, Canada still to approve, by Andrea Shalal
News about business journalism
SABEW questions change in economic data release
US changes how economic data is released
