Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Trump, European Union leaders pull back from trade war, by Ken Thomas and Paul Wiseman
Motorcycle maker to boost output in Poland after EU tariffs, by Margery Beck
Bloomberg
Ford stock flirts with single digits for first time since 2012, by Sarah Gardner
The $1.5 billion real estate wager that went horrible wrong, by Olivia Carville and Anto Antony
Fortune
CBS and Kelsey Grammar are eyeing a “Frasier” reboot, by Aric Jenkins
Facebook just shed more value than all of the Bitcoin in existence, by Lucinda Shen
Reuters
Fiat Chrysler’s Marchionne dies; shares dive on profit slide, by Agnieszka Flak
Qualcomm investors cheer end of NXP deal doomed by U.S.-China tensions, by Sonam Rai and Stephen Nellis
News about business journalism
NY Times hires Conger to cover technology
Economist to sell CQ Roll Call to FiscalNote
Li returns to Reuters as U.S. media and telecoms reporter
Business Insider launches “Household Name” podcast
Dow Jones to receive $3.4 million from Calpers
Forbes new CMS uses artificial intelligence
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Business journalism birthday
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