Date: 2015-01-22 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 201.5, high: 203.66, low: 200.94, close: 203.08, volume: 122942700, daily change: 0.005
News headlines:
Iron-Ore Slump Snags Arrium
China’s Yuan Slides
Dollar Tree Wins Battle for Family Dollar
Comcast’s Lobbying Machine Faces Test in Washington
Financial Briefing Book: News Digest
Icahn Stirs Activist Pot on Possible Takeovers
Corporate Watch: News Digest
Gross Invested $700 Million in Janus Fund
Starbucks Picks a President From Tech Industry
Ukraine Financial Support Key Test of Russia Strength, Soros Says
Buyers Take a Shine to Gold, Silver Again
DreamWorks Animation Cuts Jobs
Intuitive Surgical Profit Falls
RBC to Buy City National
Flush Airlines Debate Uses for Cash
Insider-Trading Defendants Allowed to Retract Guilty Pleas
Union Pacific Profit Rises 22%
E*Trade Financial’s Quarterly Profit Slips
Dollar Rises Against Euro, European Currencies
Ex-BP Executive Named Apache CFO
Statoil Tightens Its Belt as Oil Plunges
Cash Is King in Bank CEO Bonuses
Asian Morning Briefing: U.S. Stocks Respond to ECB Stimulus
ECB Action Ripples Across Region
Gasoline Heads to $2, Breaking Records Along the Way
CFTC Nears New Rules to Curb Excessive Speculation
U.S. Steel to Idle Plants, Lay Off 545 Workers
Capital One Reports Higher Revenue, Increased Profit
KeyCorp Earnings Rise on Higher Revenue
Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan Settle CFPB Case
Gold Prices Rise on ECB Move
Johnson Controls Sees Hitachi Deal Generating $2.6 Billion in 2016 Sales
Caution Emerges on Gold Stocks
Portugal Telecom Approves Unit Sale to Altice
Oil Prices Slide as Supplies Grow
MasterCard CEO Sees More Cautious Borrowing
New York City Opera Selects Investor Group to Revive Opera
Natural Gas Futures Sell Off
Lawsuit Against McDonald’s to Test NLRB Decision
McDonald’s Arches Are Less Golden
Eurozone Stimulus Draws Cheers
2015 House of the Year
United Vows to Put Oil-Price Savings into Debt Reduction, Share Buyback
Factory-Chic Parisian Home Is Listing for $11.5 Million
Alaska Air Boosts Dividend 60% Amid Lower Fuel Costs
EU Official Raps Russia Gas Plan
Judge Approves Lehman Settlement With Pimco
World’s Longest Commutes, by Elevator
Cartier Plans to Increase Production at Fribourg Factory
A Napa Valley Estate for $27.5 Million
Icahn Seeks Changes, Directors at Gannett
Asia’s House of the Year
AT&T Reviewing DirecTV Unit’s Name
Europe’s House of the Year
Revel Casino’s Sale to Developer Can Proceed, Says Judge
The Look of Lacquer
At Davos, CEOs Positive on Oil Price Drop
Southern Pacific Resource Seeks Bankruptcy Protection in Canada
Peabody Energy Names New CEO
Swiss Franc Moderately Stronger on ECB Move
Giving Clients the OK to Spend More
U.K. Bans Broker’s Executives
Nigeria Clamps Down on Naira Speculation
Canadian Pacific Posts Higher Earnings
U.S. Jobless Claims Flash Some Warning Signs
Covidien Earnings Rise on Growth in Surgical Sales
Southwest Earnings Helped by Lower Fuel
Sweeping Shake-Up in Swedish Business
Precision Castparts Posts Weak Results on Low Oil Demand, Deferred Shipments
J.B. Hunt Profit Rises 20%
KKR Buys U.K.’s Trainline For Up to $681 Million
Vonnegut: Client Money on Crack
Russia’s VTB Hurt by Sanctions
Swatch Announces Price Rises
Verizon Posts Loss On Pension Costs
Lands’ End Forecasts Disappointing Holiday Quarter
Travelers Earnings Rise
Toyota to Expand Output of Mirai Hydrogen Car
U.K. Property Website to Challenge of Zoopla, Rightmove
BB&T Tops Expectations On Revenue Growth
Spanish Unemployment Unchanged
Hyundai Concerned About Market Share
Asian Markets Await ECB Trigger
Guolian Securities Plans Hong Kong IPO
Rémy Cointreau Sales Decline Eases
DMG Mori Seiki Bids for German Partner
U.K. Borrowing Rises
J.P. Morgan’s Dimon Receives Pay Package Similar to Year Before
GM to Offer Electric Chevrolet Spark in Maryland by End of June
Market direction: Fall