Date: 2016-08-24 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 219.25, high: 219.6, low: 218.9, close: 218.97, volume: 53399200, daily change: 0.002
News headlines:
PBOC Puts More Cash Into Financial System to Calm Market
Oil Prices Fall as U.S. Crude Inventory Data Disappoints
Singapore’s STI Flirts With Two Week High
PBOC Moves to Clamp Down on Speculation
Key Energy Services Expects to File for Bankruptcy
Auth0 Grabs $15M for Identity Platform
Buffett Could Lose an $8-Per-Second Windfall on His Dow Chemical Stock
PetroChina and Cnooc Results Plunge
SEC Seeks Review of Treasury Market Trading Rules
Roundup of Form D Regulatory Filings--Aug. 24
Dividends Are What Matter Now
Judge Blocks Taxi King’s Abandonment of Cabs in Dispute
WL Ross in SEC Settlement Over Fee-Allocation Disclosure
Stocks Retreat From Near Record
Kobi Alexander Ordered Detained in Long-Running Backdating Case
FDA Rejects Amgen Hormonal-Imbalance Treatment
Big Oil Companies Binge on Debt
U.S. Existing-Home Sales Fall for  First Time Since February
Blockchain Firm R3 Files for a Patent as Fintech Race Heats Up
Williams-Sonoma Cuts Annual Guidance, Citing ‘Cautious’ Shopper
Marketplace Lenders Need to Change Their Business Model
Guess Inc. Raises Lower End of Earnings Forecast
Putnam Adds Ex-Morgan Stanley Executive Greg Fleming to Board
Workday Posts Higher Revenue, Though Loss Widens
Number of U.S. Prime Money-Market Funds to Drop as Rules Change
Dollar Gains on U.S. Housing Data
Republican to Unveil Sales Tax Plan for Purchases Across State Lines
Are Your Sheets ‘Egyptian Cotton’?
Bed Bath & Beyond to Audit Egyptian Cotton Supplier
America’s Biggest Banks Have a New Name for Their Venmo-Killer: Zelle
World’s Largest Aircraft Damaged After Rough Landing
Oil Prices Fall on Record U.S. Inventories
Natural Gas Rises on Hurricane Fears
Voices: Helping Clients Put Retirement Savings and Investing on Auto-Pilot
General Mills Grooms Jeff Harmening as Next CEO
Sports Authority’s Renewed Bonus Plan Provokes Protest
U.S. Natural-Gas Inventories Expected to Rise
SEC Move Is Victory for Paper Lobby
Print Is Dead? Not in Mutual-Fund Reports
Contract Bidders Must Disclose Labor-Law Violations
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams Gets FDA Warning After Plant Inspections
U.S. Criticizes EU on Corporate Tax Probes
U.S. Regulators Step Up Scrutiny Around Swift
Royal Bank of Canada’s Profit Increases
Beal Bank Wins Court Approval to Buy Sundevil Power Plants
Greece’s Ex-Statistics Chief, Embattled at Home, Is Backed by EU
Fitzgerald’s Take: Total Hockey Lives, But Liquidators Still Score
J.P. Morgan Creates Executive Role to Lead Cloud Services
Firm Retention Summary: Tusk Energy Services LLC
SEC Settles With 71 Muni Borrowers Over Disclosure Problems
SunEdison Seeks Court Approval for Executive Bonuses
Regulators Approve Hemp Derivatives Exchange
Glencore Reports Narrower Loss, Cuts Debt
Fed’s Kaplan Says Rate Rise Is Getting Closer
Frontier Markets and Swings in Financial Markets
Pfizer Buys Part of AstraZeneca’s Antibiotics Business
U.S. Crude Oil Stockpiles Surprisingly Rise
Monetary Policy on the Eve of Destruction
WPP Expects to Benefit From Brexit-Weakened Pound
U.S. LNG for China Arrives via Panama Canal
Why the Fed Won’t Raise Rates Until After the Elections
The Politics of Negative Interest Rates
Paid Sick Leave Reduces the Flu Rate ‘Significantly,’ NBER Paper Says
Tech Startups Struggle to Close Deals With IT Buyers
Rovio Entertainment Plans Sequel to ‘Angry Birds’ Movie
Mallinckrodt to Sell Nuclear-Imaging Operations
Skullcandy to Be Bought by Mill Road
China Sets Ceilings on Peer-to-Peer Credit
Dollar Listless in Quiet Trade
Analysts Forecast 200,000-Barrel Fall in Crude Supplies
Hong Kong Securities Regulator Fines Morgan Stanley $2.4 Million
Toll Brothers Revenue and Profit Jump
PreNav Closes $6.5M Seed for Drone Navigation System
Express Cuts Guidance as Sales Declines
Michaels’s Take: A Year After Crash, Rethinking Stock-Volatility Curbs
‘Biomarkers’ Light Startups’ Path to Drug Development
Optimization Startup SigOpt Scores $6.6M
Brazil Judge Authorizes Sale of Petrobras Unit
Hungary Central Bank Calls for Increased Spending
Mapping Software Startup DroneDeploy Raises $20M Series B
Buell’s Take: Strong Survey Data May Delay Additional ECB Stimulus
Michaels’s Take: A Year After Crash, Rethinking Stock-Volatility Curbs
German Economic Growth Slows on Lower Investment
Duke University Makes Claim on Estate of Aubrey McClendon
Norway Oil Companies Continue to Slash Spending
The Fed and Lehman Brothers
Asian Markets Stay Braced for Fed News
Qantas Soars to Record Profit as Pain Pays Dividend
Australia Construction Work Falls in Second Quarter
Palank’s Take: When to Recuse?
Market direction: Neutral