Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
Starbucks incident highlights peril of shopping while black, by Errin Haines Whack
Stocks ends modestly higher as earnings come in; oil surges, by Alex Veiga
Bloomberg
Trump’s SEC proposes rewrite of Obama-era broker conflict rules, by Benjamin Bain
Odd spike in Wall Street fear gauge awakens manipulation debate, by Luke Kawa
Fortune
Bon-Ton set to become the latest retailer to go out of business entirely, by Phil Wahba
Best Buy and Amazon put their rivalry aside again to sell more TVs, by Phil Wahba
Reuters
U.S. economic growth on track despite tariff concerns: Fed report, by Howard Schneider
Time Warner CEO says merger with AT&T needed to compete with internet titans, by Diane Bartz
News about business journalism
Brink named Tampa Bay Times business columnist
Turner moving to California to cover entertainment for Bloomberg
Dayton Business Journal hires Potarulski as managing editor
Moore hired as senior reporter for PR Week
Solovieva hired as executive editor of TheStreet’s Real Money
How the Financial Times fights subscriber churn
Leonard hired by Bloomberg to cover trade
BNN Bloomberg to launch April 30 in Canada
Barlett & Steele Awards now accepting entries
This date in business journalism
2013: Reuters posts Soros obituary; he’s not dead yet
2008: New Globe “Careers & Money” section has new pages, cuts stocks
Business journalism birthday
April 19: Felix Gillette of Bloomberg Businessweek
