Date: 2014-12-03 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 205.81, high: 207.34, low: 205.78, close: 207.09, volume: 74507200, daily change: 0.0065
News headlines:
San Francisco Pension Delays Hedge-Fund Vote
Barington Wants Omnova to Break Up
Enbridge to Raise Dividend 33%
Shale Oil’s Secret Routes to Market
MoneyBeat: Oil Bear Cleans Up on Spill
Valuation Doubles for Online-Pay Startup
U.S. Retailers Learn to Speak Canadian
CFPB Official Speaks Loudly on Student Loans
Corporate Watch: News Digest
Pharmacy Tied to Meningitis Files Debt-Payment Plan
Dollar’s Rise Causes Pain Abroad
Canadian Oil Sands Cuts Dividend
Private-Equity Firms Adapt to Curbs
ADM Plans to Increase Dividend Payout Ratio
NextEra Energy to Buy Most of Hawaiian Electric for $2.6 Billion
Teen Retailers Limp Into the Holidays
Pemex Opts for Refinery Upgrade Over New One
GOP Leaders Push Spending Plan Over Concerns From Right
Mercuria Says Citi Tried to Force Early Repayment
In Spain, Banks Find Dry Lending Landscape
Moody’s Downgrades Petrobras Credit
Hiring Picks Up Broadly, but Wage Growth Is Muted
Pacific Sunwear Swings to Loss
Nominee Pledges Tough Line on Car Safety
Synopsys Earnings Rise 9.8%; CFO Promoted
PVH Tops Its Profit View, Cuts Outlook
Aéropostale Outlook Misses Expectations
Disney Boosts Dividend 34%
Novo Banco Reports Assets in Preparation for Auction
Guess Reports Disappointing Sales, Again Cuts Outlook
Brent Crude Prices Decline
CtW Urges Vote Against Walgreen’s Deal For Alliance Boots
Life Partners, Executives Ordered to Pay $46.9 Million
Southern Copper CEO sees Chinese copper demand helping prices
Alico Buys 3 Florida Citrus Producers
Honda to Expand Air-Bag Recall
FDA to Update Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling Information
U.S. Government Bonds Flat
Trump Taj Mahal Hearing Pushed Back a Week
SEC on Alert for Pyramid Schemes Online
Judge Approves Sale of Canyon Ranch Hotel to Z Capital Partners
Great Northern Paper to Be Sold for $5.4 Million
Who’s Happier? Merrill or Morgan Stanley Advisers?
Gold Gains Ahead of ECB Meeting
Dollar Gains Against Euro, Yen
Ruble Sinks Despite Intervention
Glaxo to Slash U.S. Jobs
McDonald’s Menu Problem: It’s Supersized
Why Starbucks Has Bulked Up Its Menu
Allstate to Study How Drones Could Help Claims Process
New Tax Breaks for U.K. North Sea Energy
ETF Managed Strategies Questioned as Stock Rise
HSAs Solve a Firm’s Health-Care Dilemma
ICE Unveils Five Singapore Contracts
Prosecutors Seek 20 Years for Former Sentinel CEO
United Tightens  Restrictions on Lithium Batteries
Lufthansa Seeks Mediation to End Pilot Strikes
Time Inc. Taps Evelyn Webster to Run Most U.S. Magazines
Bill Could Ease Small Business Funds Regulation
Euro Hits Two-Year Low
A Reverse Course When a Borrower Dies
U.K. to Impose Extra Tax Levy on Banks
Saudis See Oil Around $60 a Barrel
BGC Says Its GFI Bid Superior to CME’s
Sweden’s Klarna to Invest $100 Million in U.S. Launch
Royal Bank of Canada Profit Rises 11%
Shipping Industry Consolidation Set to Continue
Life Partners, Executives to Pay $46.9 Million in Settlement
Voices: Jack Thurman, on the Benefits of Mandatory Sabbaticals
Constitution Pipeline Gets Conditional Approval
China Stock Surge Stokes Fears
Central Bank Moves Rattle Currency Markets
Brown-Forman Cuts Outlook on Forex
WM Company Delays Changes to FX Benchmark Methodology
Walgreen’s November Sales Improve
Productivity Rises at 2.3% Pace
Cathay Pacific Pilots Union Plans Work Action
Russian Bonds Drop on Recession Worries
Abercrombie Slashes Outlook
Latest Singapore Outage Adds Pressure on Exchange
Germany Investigates Airbus Defense Deals
Cliffs to Sell West Virginia Coal Assets
Defense Bill Threatens Rocket Plans
Airbus Creates New Satellite Launch Venture
Mongolia Restarts Bids for Giant Coal Project
Glide Talk Secures $20 Million Funding Round
Takata Forms Panel on Air-Bag Defects
Market direction: Neutral