Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
The New York Times
Elephants to retire from Ringling Brothers stage, by Richard Pérez-Peña
Big banks pass muster in latest stress tests, by Peter Eavis
The Wall Street Journal
Apple Pay stung by low-tech fraudsters, by Robin Sidel and Daisuke Wakabayashi
Google snubs robotics rivals, Pentagon, by Doug Cameron and Alistair Barr
Bloomberg
Payrolls climb more than forecast, U.S. jobless rate at 5.5%, by Bloomberg News
Draghi declares victory for bond-buying before it starts, by Simon Kennedy and Alessandro Speciale
Fortune
Humbled Amazon turns to rival Alibaba for help in China, by Scott Cendrowski
Apple will replace AT&T in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, by John Kell
News about business journalism
Fox Business Network hires Bloomberg’s Trish Regan
Business Insider is planning spinoff tech site
ProPublica’s Eisinger taking book leave to write “The Chickenshit Club”
Atlanta biz columnist Unger is retiring
Bloomberg BNA launches Big Law Business
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