Date: 2016-10-19 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 214.24, high: 214.31, low: 213.27, close: 213.71, volume: 76869700, daily change: 0.0063
News headlines:
Crown Says No Charges Yet for Employees Detained in China
Oil Prices Lower On Profit-Taking After Overnight Gains
Chinese Stock Markets Fractionally Up in Morning Trade
Fed’s Dudley Still Sees Rate Rise Before Year-End
Malaysia Air to Rent A380s to Carry Muslims to Hajj
Netflix Fires Back at Poaching Accusations by 21st Century Fox
Major League Baseball Expected to Move Headquarters to Midtown
Abbott Labs Swings to Loss After Booking Charge on Mylan Stake
Tractor Supply Sales Hurt by Market Weakness
Roundup of Form D Regulatory Filings--Oct. 19
NYC’s Recovery From Brink Holds Lessons For Puerto Rico, Dudley Says
Steel Dynamics Profit Surges on Market Rebound
Platinum Partners’ Flagship Hedge Fund Files for Bankruptcy
Morgan Stanley CEO: We’re Back on Track
American Express Raises Earnings Outlook
U.S. Stocks Rise on Oil Rally, Bank Earnings
Video: How IBM’s Watson Can Aid Regulators
Video: Why Fintech Firms Want a National Charter
Kinder Morgan Swings to Surprise Loss
SEC Poised to Ease Restrictions in Corporate Elections
Can This Woman Save Wells Fargo’s Consumer Banking Business?
Video: U.S. Needs Civility, Says Trump Adviser Kudlow
Brazil Central Bank Cuts Selic Rate for the First Time in Four Years
Video: Little Change Ahead for CFPB, Barney Frank Says
Analysts See 73 Billion-Cubic Feet Add to Natural-Gas Inventories
Wells Fargo Completes Delayed Bond Sale
Mattel’s Sales Flat as Rebounding Barbie Offsets Lost Disney Business
Video: We Need More Long-Term Thinking, Sen. Mark Warner Says
Reynolds American CEO to Leave Role at Year’s End
Defunct Law Firm Sues Wells Fargo Over Foreclosure Work
Video: Keep Subpoenas for Source Codes, CFTC’s Giancarlo Says
Dollar Slips as Investors Question Interest-Rate Path
Business and Commercial Loan Growth Slows at Regional Banks
Academics, Central Bankers Rate Postcrisis Experimentation
Caesars Unit, Trilogy Capital Near Settlement
Bank of Canada Leaves Key Rate Unchanged
Vivendi Says Finding ‘Amicable Solution’ With Mediaset No Longer Priority
Natural Gas Prices Fall on Warm Weather
Video: Housing-Finance Overhaul Is Key, Weiss Says
Video: Treasury’s Sarah Bloom Raskin on Password Safety
New Caterpillar CEO Faces Tough Decisions as Company Digs Out
FCC Airwaves Auction Fails to Draw Enough Bids, Again
Stech’s Take: Another Claim of Bogus Mortgage Fees Arises
Oil at One-Year High on Falling Stockpiles
Activist Group Sues Fed for Details on Selection of Regional Fed Presidents
Fed To Be ‘Patient and Gradual’ on Rates, Says Kaplan
Stech’s Take: Another Claim of Bogus Mortgage Fees Arises
Russian Hacker Suspected of LinkedIn Attack Arrested in Czech Republic
Supervalu Changes Focus as Retail Sales Slip
Toyota Safety Features Linked to Self-Driving Strategy
ECB’s Daniele Nouy Says Banks Need to Rethink Business Models
Coming Job at Mitsubishi Motors Puts Auto Chief’s Pay in Spotlight
Fed’s Beige Book Repeatedly Cites Election-Related Uncertainty
ICE’s Sprecher Criticizes New European Financial Rules
Fed’s Beige Book: U.S. Economy Expands, Labor Market Tightens
U.K.’s Hammond: No Plans to Change BOE Independence
Breaking the Sovereign-Bank Nexus
Airbnb Revises New York Rules Amid Possible Legislation
Engineering Firm Aricent Offers to Buy Filip Technologies Out of Bankruptcy
CFTC Still Seeks Access to Trading Algorithms
Firm Retention Summary: Channel Technologies Group LLC
The Root Causes of Predatory Lending
Fed’s Potter Says Trading Desk Preparing for Bond Sales Ahead of Time
Canada’s Tervita Files for Chapter 15 Bankruptcy
Regulators to Toughen Cybersecurity Standards at Nation’s Biggest Banks
Boeing Reverses Course On 747 Work
Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Warns of Oil Shortage
QE Most Effective in Low Growth Economies
Banking Brokers Boost Morgan Stanley’s Wealth Unit
Mexico’s Antitrust Commission Investigates Drug Sector
Temasek Sees Healthy Promise in China Joint Venture
SEC Approves New Treasury Tracker
St. Jude Medical’s Sales Rise 12%
Halliburton Swings to Profit
Donald Trump’s Economic Plan, Up Close, Doesn’t Add Up
Wealth Benefits of Education Lower for Some Minority Groups: St. Louis Fed Research
AT&T Seeks to Shake Up Pay TV
Hong Kong Ruling Forces Short Seller to Surrender Profits
Verizon Earnings: What to Watch
U.S. Crude Oil Stockpiles Unexpectedly Fall
U.S. Housing Starts Fell 9% in September
Actor Harry Shearer Sues Over ‘Spinal Tap’ Royalties
HSBC Winds Down Monaco Operations
Seagate Earnings Jump on Cost Cuts, Storage Demand
German Savings Banks Won’t Pass on Negative Interest Rates
Shine Comes Off Big Consumer-Product Companies
Genuine Parts Cuts Outlook As Earnings Disappoint
M&T Bank Increases Profit on Mortgage Business
Fed’s Williams Says Central Bank Isn’t as Diverse as It Needs to Be
Northern Trust’s Profit, Revenue Rise on Higher Interest, Fee Income
Chilly Autumn for Britain’s Post-Brexit Property Businesses
Egypt Could Obtain IMF Loan Approval by Next Month
U.S. Bancorp Profit Rises on Increased Mortgage Refinancing
Backing of Consumer Startups Shifts From Communities to Shopping Services
CIA’s In-Q-Tel Invests In Data Analytics Company MapD
Zinsli’s Take: Small Sectors Shine in Dark Quarter
Schlesinger’s Take: A Sneak Peek at the 2017 Agenda
BB&T Revenue and Profit Increase
KB Home to Sell Some Land Parcels Previously Set for Building
Creighton’s Take: Unconventional Policies Could Erode Central Bank Independence
Schlesinger’s Take: A Sneak Peek at the 2017 Agenda
The ECB Can’t Risk a Taper Tantrum
Central Banking and Bitcoin
ING Chief: New Banking Rules Risk Harming Growth
Lotte Chairman Charged With Embezzlement, Tax Evasion
How One Goldman Sachs Trader Made More Than $100 Million
Positive China Data Leaves Uneven Impact on Asian Markets
Bank Indonesia Likely to Hold Fire
Korea’s STX Shipyard for Sale With French Unit, Court Rules
Japanese Retail Demand for Yen Shorting Remains Strong
Starbucks Promotes Belinda Wong to Head China Operations
Carrefour Sales Lifted by Latin America
CP Rail Results Miss Expectations
Venture Capital Prowls into the Life-Insurance Business
Market direction: Neutral