Date: 2014-01-09 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 183.45, high: 183.83, low: 182.89, close: 183.52, volume: 96582300, daily change: 0.0002
News headlines:
Beijing Tests Tools to Tackle Bad Debt
Taxi App Uber Cuts Some Rates
Canadian Oil Firm Calls Seepage Routine Failure
Bazaarvoice Merger With Rival Is Anticompetitive, Judge Rules
Fed's Kocherlakota: Unemployment Is Too High
PC Shipments End Year Down 10%
Chinese Car Makers Won't Exhibit at Detroit Auto Show
Alcoa Affiliate Pleads Guilty to Bribery
Banks Face New U.S. Moves Against Laundering
Teamsters Reject YRC's Offer
Dow Jones Sues News Aggregator Ransquawk
U.K. Steps Up Protection of Scotch Whisky
Low-End Retailers Had a Rough Holiday
San Francisco's New Gold Rush
Ex-SAC Portfolio Manager Martoma Was Expelled from Harvard Law School
Banks Cut as Mortgage Boom Ends
Fifth & Pacific Adopts Kate Spade as Corporate Name
Edgecrest In Talks to Acquire Stonecap
Santa Brings Mixed Bag to U.K. Retailers
Chevron 4th-Quarter Production On Pace to Fall
Abercrombie Raises Outlook
FCC Chairman Pledges Vigorous Broadband Oversight
Amgen CFO Jonathan Peacock to Leave Company
Medtronic Hypertension Device Misses Goal in Study
N.Y. Probes If Firms Got Unfair Early Look at Data Through Survey
Corn, Wheat Sink as Export Demand Plunges
Diamond Foods Settles SEC Fraud Charges
Overstock.com to Accept Bitcoin
J.P. Morgan Explores Sale of Prepaid-Card Unit
Portugal Sells Insurer to China's Fosun
Asian Morning Briefing: U.S. Stocks Stall
Alcoa Reports Loss
Ecuador's Petroamazonas Seeks Foreign Partners
Pacific Sunwear Lowers Outlook After Choppy Holiday Season
Sears Issues Dismal Outlook
Batista's Oil Company Given More Time
Volvo Car Sales Rise in 2013
Rolls-Royce Plans to Cut U.S. Defense Jobs
KKR to Open Canadian Office
Corn, Wheat Slide to Multiyear Lows
Raw Sugar Settles at Three-Year Low
Toys "R" Us Reports Better U.S. Sales
Mexican President Signs Financial Overhaul Into Law
Natural Gas Sinks 5%
Forex Probes Could Change Industry
Oil Futures Sink to Eight-Month Low
Big Banks Set for Best Year Since Crisis
Clarity Sought for Bitcoin Treatment
Judge Reverses $10.8M Arbitration Award Against Citi
Deutsche Bank Board Will Scrutinize Alleged Roles in Libor Scandal
Family Dollar Cuts Outlook on Weaker Same-Store Sales
U.K. to Seek Charges Against Ex-Trader
Tyson Urges Hog Farmers to Improve Animal Welfare
European Markets Weighed by U.S. Investor Caution
Nikko Asset to Appoint Chairman Shibata as New Chief Exec
RSA Insurance Group Fires Two Executives
ECB Names Top Bank Supervision Officials
Finra Fines Stifel Financial in ETF Case
Spain Secures Cheap Five-Year Borrowing Rates
Cargill Earnings Jump 36%
Finra Fines Stifel Financial in ETF Case
Rolls-Royce, Wärtsilä End Merger Talks
American Financial Group to Buy Summit Holdings for $250 Million
Standard Chartered Executives Quit Amid Profit Slump
Advisers See REIT Correlations Subsiding
Asia Bond Markets Are Booming
Using a 401(k) Loan to Pay for a Mortgage Refinancing
Biogen Partners with Sangamo on Hemoglobin-Related Therapies
Ford Boosts Quarterly Dividend by 25%
Novartis's Blockbuster Drug Hemorrhages Sales
Fred's Hires Advisers to Explore Options
McKesson Raises Offer for Celesio
Teva Pharmaceutical Names New CEO
Indian Car Sales Slump for First Time in a Decade
L Brands Cuts Earnings View as Merchandise Margins Drop
J&J to Fight Loss of Test-Product Trademark
Porsche Expects Further Sales Growth
Supervalu Profit Rises on Save-A-Lot Growth
EU Draft Law Spares Big Banks
Cato Cuts Profit Outlook
Pier 1 'Extremely Disappointed' with December Sales
Rolls-Royce Reports Sales Record
Asian Shares Mostly Lower
M&S Suffers Weak Trading
RBI Raises Lending Limit for Gold-For-Loans Firms
OUE Set to Kick Off Singapore REIT IPOs
Alibaba Sparks Hong Kong IPO Rethink
BlackRock to End Analyst Survey
Manhattan Renters See Uptick in Incentives
Market direction: Neutral