Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Global markets follow Wall St higher as virus fears recede, by Joe McDonald

Southwest sees milestone after booking unaided June profit

CNN

Space tourism tax proposed to boldly go where no tax has gone before, by Chris Isidore

Taco Bell is facing a food shortage, by Jordan Valinsky

The Wall Street Journal

AT&T Lifts Revenue Expectations on Wireless Growth, by Omar Abdel-Baqui

Inflation Pushes Consumer-Goods Giant Unilever to Accelerate Price Increases, by Nick Kostov

CNBC

Vegas workers will put masks back on, but tourists won’t have to under new rules, by Phil Helsel

Visa makes another big bet on fintech, buying UK payments start-up Currencycloud, by Ryan Browne

Reuters

Embedded as a risk, new COVID cycle could challenge Fed, recovery, by Howard Schneider

Domino’s Pizza beats revenue estimates on U.S. strength

News about business journalism

Fox Business hires Kees as associate producer

Harding named Asia editor of Financial Times

Bloomberg TV scraps show with NYU professor Galloway

Bloomberg Industry union to CEO: Please reconsider return to office

Saskatchewan biz news site launches

Cumiskey departs BBC for Bloomberg Quicktake

Insider hires Jarvey as part of entertainment business team

Tennessean biz reporter Stephenson moves to city government beat

Parkhurst named VP of content for 6AM City