The struggle to attract and retain businesses and the jobs they provide has increasingly led to states and cities squaring off against others, with competing tax incentive packages the very real currency of the battle – WSJ

New details have emerged on just how cushioned John Stumpf’s forced exit from Wells Fargo was in the wake of the fake-account scandal that’s still reverberating for the bank – NYTimes

The behavior behind that scandal was not, it now appears, confined to Wells. A CBC report just released suggests that employees at all 5 of Canada’s major banks have experienced similar pressures from management to hit “unrealistic sales targets,” no matter the cost – CBC

A prominent American law firm is the latest party to feel the heat of Germany’s ongoing inquiry into VW’s emissions cheating scandal – NYTimes and Bloomberg

NY’s Common Retirement Fund has ended its ties with Amherst Pierpont Securities, a brokerage that “won nearly $2 billion in annual bond-trading business during the tenure of a portfolio manager now facing federal bribery charges.” It’s the third brokerage firm dismissed by the fund as a result of the scandal – WSJ

British regulators are investigating whether 21st Century Fox’s $14.3 billion deal to assume full control of Sky TV runs afoul of anti-competition concerns – NYTimes

With Snap stock falling back to earth, Canada Goose is the IPO world’s new darling [for now] – WSJ and Bloomberg

Here’s a story right up a grammar nerd’s alley: Oakhurst Dairy in Maine is on the hook for some serious truck driver overtime because of, incredibly enough, an Oxford comma (or lack thereof, to be more specific) – NYTimes

Never a more appropriate time to Put a Rang on It. Happy St. Patty’s day – Tumblr

Enjoy the weekend.