Date: 2015-12-10 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 206.19, high: 208.68, low: 204.18, close: 205.34, volume: 162401500, daily change: -0.0078
News headlines:
PBOC to Promote Yuan Convertibility in Free-Trade Zones
Crude Prices Pressured by OPEC High November Output
BOK: Fed Tightening Could Bring Instability to Emerging Asia
Trump and City Spar Over Access to Tower Lobby
Port Authority Approves WTC Subsidies
Junk Fund’s Demise Fuels Concern Over Bond Rout
UPS Struggles to Keep Up With Surge in Web Orders
Seminary Searches Soul Over Condos
Four of AIG’s Highest-Ranking Executives to Depart
DuPont Talks Likely To Spur Other Deals In Seeds, Pesticides
Banks Soften Expectations of Euro-Dollar Parity
PepsiCo Ends U.S. Yogurt Joint-Venture With Müller
What Went Wrong in Oil-Price Forecasts?
Antitrust Concerns Threaten Halliburton-Baker Hughes
Chipotle Shares Rise After Chief  Apologizes, Reiterates Safety Plan
SunEdison Sells Maine Wind-Power Plants
Yum Tightens Focus on Its Brands
Voya Sues Over Millennium Health $1.8 Billion Financing
Peru’s Central Bank Increases Reference Interest Rate
United Technologies Embarks on $1.5 Billion Cost-Cutting Plan
Wal-Mart Marketing Chief to Step Down
Central Banks and the Markets: Who’s Guiding?
Designing Fiscal Policy for Steady, Enduring Growth
New York Fed Looks at Risk Appetite and Exchange Rates
FCC Sides With T-Mobile in Sirius Dispute
GM Ignition-Switch Fund Offers $595 Million to Victims
Allegheny Tech to Idle Some Pennsylvania Operations
Glencore Strikes Vein of Investor Optimism
Asian Morning Briefing: U.S. Stocks Climb, Paced by Energy Shares
Restoration Hardware Sales Climb 10%
Copper Prices Inch Higher on Hopes of More Supply Cuts
Rebound in Energy Arena Lifts U.S. Stocks
Banks Seek Capital From Fed in Wake of Dividend Reduction
Dollar Rises Against Euro, Yen
Oil Prices Tick Down as Supplies Grow
Morgan Stanley in $225 Million Pact Tied to Mortgage-Backed Securities
Natural Gas Retreats to New Three-Year Low
Sculptor Tom Corbin’s Backyard Bronzes
Sweet Leaf Tea Recalls 1.5 Million Bottles of Tea
Gold at One-Week Low as Traders Brace for Higher Interest Rates
Airlines Jockeying Over Which Will Introduce Airbus A320neo First
U.S. Budget Deficit Rises in November
High Current-Account Surplus Is an Economic Challenge, Says ECB’s Weidmann
Renault Weighs Truce With French State
Fed Approves Bank of America’s Resubmitted Stress Test
ScottsMiracle-Gro Combines LawnService With TruGreen
OPEC’s Oil Output Hits Three-Year High
Warren Buffett Takes 8% Stake in Sears Spinoff Seritage
Volkswagen Blames ‘Chain of Mistakes’ for Emissions Scandal
U.S. Import Prices Down 0.4% in November
Methode Electronics Shares Fall on Guidance Cut, Revenue Miss
Big Tobacco Challenges U.K.’s Plain-Packaging Laws
Economists See Growth Rising, Unemployment Falling in 2016
Comcast Shareholders Approve Plan to Reclassify Stock
WSJ Survey: Economists Are Convinced Fed Will Raise Rates in December
WSJ Survey: Fed Officials May Lower Projections for Inflation, Rate Increases
Rio Tinto Shines Among Miners
Real-Estate Agents’ Over-the-Top Gifts for Buyers
Warner Music Narrows Loss
ConocoPhillips to Cut Capital Spending by 25% in 2016
U.S. Jobless Claims Jump
Cenovus Sets Lower Spending Budget for 2016
Oil’s Cash Cows Go on Auction Block
Visteon Declares $1.75 Billion Special Distribution
Irish Economy Set to Top Growth Rankings for Second Year
Ciena Posts Narrower Loss
Zara Parent Inditex’s Profit Up 20%
Vonnegut: Four Signs a Wealth-Management Partnership Is in Trouble
Hilsenrath’s Take: January Statement Could Be Model for Fed Rate Outlook
BOE Holds Rate on Tame Inflation Outlook
ECB’s Liikanen Says Must Continue Accommodative Policy
China Adds to Its Piles of Gold
ECB Will Use All Means to Maintain Policy, Says Mersch
Stocks of Palm Oil at Record Levels in Malaysia
ECB’s Monetary Policy Can Help Return Finland to Growth
Unicredit Nears Sale of Ukraine Unit to Bolster Finances
Airlines Set to Deliver Higher Profit
The Veneer of Consensus at the Fed
Dollar Pressured as U.S. Economic Concerns Smolder
BOJ Officials Are More Relaxed About Emerging-Market Slowdown Risks
Asian Shares Lower Ahead of Fed Rate Decision
Rabobank to Cut Additional 9,000 Jobs
Tokyo Shares Slide as Oil Slump Fuels Market Jitters
India’s Inflation Likely Hit a 5-Month High in November
Singapore LNG Futures Could Launch Next Month
Wal-Mart to Offer Smartphone Payments in Stores
David’s Tea Raises Annual Projections on Sustained Strong Sales
Market direction: Fall