Date: 2015-12-14 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 203.35, high: 204.14, low: 201.51, close: 201.88, volume: 211173300, daily change: -0.0194
News headlines:
New Zealand Expects Budget Deficit for Fiscal Year
Australia’s Budget Outlook Worsens
Boards Face Recruiting Challenges
Why China Is Loosening the Yuan’s Ties to Dollar
The Big Number
Australia Central Bank Minutes Signal Economic Shift Underway
‘Adjusted’ Earnings Cloud Corporate Results
Natural Gas Sinks to 14-Year Low
U.S. Stocks Rise as Oil Rout Eases
Junk-Bond Selloff Intensifies
Newell Rubbermaid to Acquire Jarden for $15 Billion
Taylor Woods Performance Boosted by Bearish Natural-Gas Bet
Lumber Liquidator’s Stock Surges as Tilson Covers Short Bet
Dow-DuPont Merger Sows Anxiety in 2 Cities
‘Liftoff’ at the Fed
How China Can Prevent a Currency War
The World Needs Higher U.S. Interest Rates
BOE Paper Finds Not All Exchange-Rate Fluctuations Are Equal
Auto-Parts Makers Gear Up for Deals
Banks Would Have to Show Stress Survival Plans Under OCC Proposal
VeriFone Issues Guidance Below Expectations
F5 Networks CEO Resigns
Fed’s George Questions Proposal to Slash Bank Capital Held At Fed Banks
Asian Morning Briefing: U.S. Stocks Rise as Oil Rout Eases
Amgen Takes Back Rights to Prolia, Xgeva and Vectibix Drugs
Pfizer Raises Quarterly Dividend by 7.1%
Boeing Boosts Buyback Program, Dividend
Academic Economists Divided on Possible Fed Rate Increase
SEC Reviewing Third Avenue’s Move to Bar Redemptions From Fund
Mark Burnett Named President of MGM’s TV and Digital Unit
Dollar Slips as Fed Meeting Approaches
DuPont Reshuffles Executive Ranks
Norfolk Southern Rejects Revised Canadian Pacific Bid
Junk Bonds’ Selloff Gathers Steam
Cubic Energy Files for Bankruptcy
U.S. Oil Prices Lift Off Multiyear Lows
Chesapeake Energy Works on a Recovery Plan With Evercore
Copper Ends Down on Fed Rate Expectations and Crude Oil
Overcoming Clients’ Reluctance to Apply for a New Loan
BTG Faces Pressure on Units After Regulator Limits Buyback Plan
Mahindra Gains Control of Italy’s Pininfarina
UniCredit to Cut Jobs at Austrian Retail Business
Junk-Bond Selloff Spills Over to Europe
Banks Prep for Trading Influx, as Rate Rise Looms
A Belarus Wildcard Is Shaking Up the Market for Potash
How a U.S. Rate Increase Will Affect Gold, Other Metals
Neiman Marcus Swings to Loss on Lower Sales
Trina Solar Gets Offer to Go Private From CEO
Commodities Trader Trafigura Benefits From Volatility
S&P Warns It Could Cut Anglo American Rating to Junk
Orchestra-Premaman Makes Takeover Bid for Destination Maternity
The Roots of Republican Fears on Immigration and Trade
South African President’s Rare Reversal Relieves Rand Market
Dollar Steady as Investors Gauge Path After FOMC
Tuesday Morning Names Steven Becker as CEO
Holiday Online Orders Taking Longer, Study Says
Fairchild Says Competing Bid Unlikely to Result in Superior Proposal
Third Avenue CEO Departs
How a Potash Cartel Collapsed
Encana Cuts Dividend and Capital Budget
India’s Consumer Inflation Rate Rises to Highest Level in Five Months
Buell’s Take: Is It Fair for the ECB to Slam the Markets?
No Limit to Tools ECB Can Use on Inflation, Draghi Says
China, U.A.E. Set Up $10 Billion Investment Fund
Shell Plans to Shed 2,800 Jobs After BG Takeover
BOE’s Shafik Eyes Wage Growth
Inflation Targets and the Fed’s Credibility
Bearish Factors Could Keep Oil Low
ECB Prepared for Fed Move
Asian Shares Tumble on Oil, Junk-Bond Worries
BOJ Officials Pleased With Latest Tankan Survey
India’s Wholesale Price Index Falls For 13th Month in a Row
BOJ Closes Out Its Year of Standing Pat
NZX-50 Ends Lower, Catches Asia’s Cold
Market direction: Rise