Dec 9 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in The
Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and
does not vouch for their accuracy.
- Dow Chemical Co DOW.N and DuPont (N:DD) Co DD.N are in
advanced talks to merge, in what would be a combination of two
of America's oldest companies that together are worth nearly
$120 billion.
- U.S. is proposing to add automatic brakes and other
advanced safety features to a five-star rating programme for new
vehicles, a significant regulatory overhaul that could help spur
widespread adoption of driverless-car technologies.
- Long before Volkswagen AG's VOWG_p.DE emissions cheating
scandal erupted, the German auto giant withheld information from
regulators in the U.S., according to internal documents. (
- Anglo American PLC AAL.L said it would cut 85,000 jobs
over the next several years as part of a sweeping restructuring,
a drastic response by one of the world's biggest mining
companies to the prolonged slump in raw materials prices.