Date: 2014-11-20 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 205.31, high: 205.55, low: 204.3, close: 205.22, volume: 82373000, daily change: -0.0016
News headlines:
Corporate Watch: News Digest
For Dish, Tense Talks All Around
Ruling Favors Renters With Regulated Apartments
Immigration Plan Seen Affecting Wages, Jobs
Sotheby’s CEO to Step Down
Korea Gas Seeks to Sell Part of LNG Canada Stake
Chill Lifts Natural-Gas Prices
GOP, Obama Tread a Delicate Political Path
Fed Launches Bank-Supervision Review
Soros Puts His Money on Gross
What Does It Cost to Develop a Drug? Latest Study Says $2.6 Billion
Banks Face Senate Grilling on Commodity Deals
BNP Cuts U.S. Junk-Bond Team
New Media to Buy Halifax Media Newspapers
Pentagon to Contractors: Innovate
Nevsun Not Aware of Any Bids for It
Yum Sets Aside $1 Billion for Buybacks
Hertz Names Tague CEO
Wedbush Settles SEC Probe
Top Two Banorte Executives Step Down
Jana Partners Considers Nominating PetSmart Director Slate
GM’s Amends Set Car-Recall Path
Dollar Gains on Upbeat U.S. Data
Nike Boosts Quarterly Dividend 17%
GM Shifts Some Senior Managers
Ross Stores Profit Rises; Cautious on Holiday Season
U.S. Orders Electric Utilities to Secure Sites From Attack
Splunk Operating Expenses Surge, Offsetting Broad Revenue Growth
Startups Mine Data From Fields, Shadows
Best Buy Sales Bounce Back
Intuit Results Exceed Expectations
Takata Knew About Air-Bag Woes
NHTSA Slams Chrysler’s Jeep Recall Response
With Cheap Fuel, America’s Tank Is Half Full
Greek Port Gets Shipshape With China’s Help
CIM Group to Take Control Trump SoHo
Arabica Coffee Slides After USDA Raises Brazil Forecast
Oil Prices Rise on Changing OPEC Expectations
Brazil Freezes Suspects’ Assets in Petrobras Probe
Advisory Firm Ordered to Pay Exxon Retirees $3.8M
Gold Slips as Traders Weigh Policy
Perry Ellis Defends Recent Performance
Corinthian Colleges to Sell Campuses
Buyout Firms Disclose More Fees
Goldman Fires Two Employees
Southwest Pilots Seek Mediation
Orange CEO: EE Venture ‘Not Long Term’
Orange Mulls Dailymotion Stake Sale
Altice CEO Sizes Up Bouygues
Kuwait Air to Buy 10 Boeing Jets
Average Wall Street Pay to Rise 4% This Year
European Shares Down on Gloomy Data
Swiss National Bank’s Zurbruegg Repeats Opposition to Gold Vote
Carlyle’s Rubenstein Sees Japanese Political Support for Private Equity
Marcato Pushes REIT Plan at Dillard’s
Kotak to Buy ING Vysya Bank in $2.4 Billion Stock Deal
Valeant Sets $2 Billion Buyback Plan
The Dirt on Sustainable Luxury
Ethiopian Airlines Hit by Ebola Fears
Raiffeisen Falls Into the Red
A Ski Lift in the Australian Alps
Voices: Bellaria Jimenez, on Winning Over Latinos as Clients
Top Financiers to Join Bank of Cyprus Board
South Africa Keeps Rates On Hold
Ineos Plans to Spend Up to $1 Billion in Shale
Paulson, Soros Property Fund Mulls Spanish Takeover
Rupee Falls to Nine-Month Low
A Client Overcomes Her Sunk-Cost Fears
Technip Eyes French Oil-Services Merger
VTB Hurt by Ukraine Crisis
Tech Mahindra to Acquire Lightbridge Communications
Apache Divests $1.4 Billion in Assets
ThyssenKrupp Swings to Profit
BNSF Railway Plans $6 Billion Capital Spending
BMW Plays Catch-Up in China
Dollar Tree Posts Best Sales Since 2011
Royal Dutch Shell Sells Some Nigeria Units
Investec Eyes Wealth-Management Acquisitions
Michael’s Earnings Jump 36%, Raises Guidance
Perrigo to Sell Stock to Fund Omega Deal
Washington Post Launches New App
From Backwater to Battleground in Asian Life Insurance
EU Charges Truck Makers in Cartel Investigation
Donaldson Cuts Outlook
CGN Power Secures IPO Cornerstone Investors
Audi Looks to Extend Its Pole Position in China
BBVA Raises $2.5 Billion for Garanti Deal
Jaguar Land Rover Not Trying to Match Germans in Scale
Centrica Cuts Earnings Guidance
RBS Fined for IT Failure
Sanofi Says New Drugs to Boost Sales
Yen Tumbles to Fresh Lows
ANZ Suspends Staff Amid Probe
China to Boost Aid to Small Firms
China Manufacturing Shows Weakness
Corporate Watch: News Digest
Goldman Fires 2 Employees, Saying They Shared Confidential Information
Market direction: Rise