Date: 2015-01-20 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 198.77, high: 201.82, low: 198.55, close: 201.63, volume: 211879600, daily change: 0.0131
News headlines:
Study Suggests Diversity Dividend
Marriott Hopes Small Rooms Are Big Draw
Corporate Watch: News Digest
Financial Briefing Book: News Digest
Digits: Highlights From the Blog
Natural Gas Takes Unseasonal Plunge
S&P Ratings Nears $1.4 Billion in Settlements
Supreme Court Sides With Teva in Patent Case
Apache CEO Steven Farris Retires
Dollar’s Rise Squeezes U.S. Firms
CA’s Profit Falls as Revenue Decline Continues
Ex-Pratt & Whitney Head to Lead United Technologies’ Aviation Unit
Plug Pulled on Venezuela’s Sale of Citgo
Too Many Trucks, Too Little Parking
U.S. Bancorp Promotes Two
Foreign Real-Estate Developers Hit U.S.
SEC Gets Busy With Accounting Inquiries
Schlumberger to Buy Stake in Russia’s Eurasia Drilling
Economists See Housing-Market Pickup
Morgan Stanley Misses Estimates
Euro Slips Ahead of ECB’s Meeting; FXCM Shares Plunge
Bristol-Myers Operating Chief to Become CEO
Chevron to Sell LNG to South Korea’s SK
Builders’ New Power Play: Net-Zero Homes
Asian Morning Briefing: U.S. Stocks Eke Out Gains
United Nears Deal to Convert Boeing Order to Larger Jets
Delta: Fuel-Savings Will Be Used to Pay Down Debt
Cotton Falls to More Than Five-Year Low
Advanced Micro Devices Lowers Revenue Forecast
Hedge Fund Starboard Pushes for Staples-Office Depot Deal
BP Deepwater Fine Installments Possible
Madison Dearborn to Take Majority Stake in Walgreens Infusion Services
Mexican Retail Association Says Retail Sales Rose 0.9% Last Year
FXCM Shares Plunge In Wake of Rescue Terms
Big Brokerages Spend More on Bonuses
Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Lower Debit-Card Fees
Polish Banks Under Scrutiny
Oil Drops Again on Demand Concerns
FXCM Rescue Package Includes Rising Interest Rate
U.S. Government Bonds Rise as Crude-Oil Prices Fall 4%
Natural Gas Has Biggest Losses in 11 Months as Weather Forecasts Warm
Olam International, Unit Fined $3 Million by CFTC
American Express Checks Its Balance
Spain Shows Signs of Housing Recovery
Gold Reaches Five-Month High
How the Rising Dollar Has Pressured U.S. Manufacturers
Life Partners Holdings Files for Bankruptcy
Afren Reviewing Cost Base, Capital Structure
Wal-Mart to Give U.S. Tax Refunds in Cash
Leucadia Settles Shareholder Lawsuit Over Jefferies Merger
J&J Sales Dented by Stronger Dollar
Rule Change Could Prompt Italian Bank Consolidation
Globalization: Damaged but Not Sunk
CME Group, BGC Again Raise Bids for Broker-Dealer GFI
Europe Stocks Buoyed by ECB Hopes
Voices: Ira Sager, on Factoring Tech Advances in Retirement Planning
LightSquared Bankruptcy Plan Sent  for Vote
Turkey’s Central Bank Cuts Rate
Libya’s OPEC Governor Kidnapped
Richemont Ponders Price Rises
M&T Bank Profit Jumps
Halliburton Results Beat Expectations
Baker Hughes Results Top Expectations
Oil Firms Show Interest in Mexico Bidding
Is the Sun About to Set on Page 3 Models?
Takata Adds Six to Review Panel
When a Client Makes an Unusual Request
Home-Builder Confidence Ticks Down
Canadian Pacific Forms Real-Estate Venture
Regions Financial Profit, Revenue Fall
Renault Revving Up in Case Iranian Market Reopens
Unilever Profit Rises Despite China Sales Slump
Express Ends Buyout Talks With Sycamore
KB Holding Makes Bid for Vossloh
Forex Brokers Under Scrutiny
Norway to Award Oil and Gas Drilling Licences
Outerwall CEO Steps Down
Barnes & Noble Retail Chief to Retire
Coinbase Raises $75 Million
Singapore’s GIC Invests $165 Million in India’s Bandhan
Smith & Wesson Boosts Outlook
Alitalia Vows Return to Profit by 2017
Li Ka-shing Widens European Spending Spree
Michaels Projects 3.5% Sales Growth In Holiday Quarter
Emirates to Take A380 Jets Earlier
Shake Shack Sees Raising as Much as $92 Million in IPO
U.S. Presses Casinos on Sports Betting
China Regulatory Moves Draw Criticism
Germany’s Schaeffler Mulls Multibillion-Euro IPO
Sweden Cuts Growth Forecasts
U.S. Airlines Ponder Cheap Oil Rewards
UPM-Kymmene to Cut Newsprint Production
China Shares End Higher on Data
Scoot to Begin Dreamliner Flights
Rio Tinto Aims to Boost Iron-Ore Output
Hot Art Market Lends Sizzle to Christie’s, Sotheby’s Sales
Germany to Offer 0% Bond Yield
Regulator to Review Leverage Limits for Currency Trades
New Activist Hedge Fund Has CEO Backing
Market direction: Rise