Date: 2016-05-18 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 206.46, high: 206.8, low: 204.23, close: 204.85, volume: 114924900, daily change: -0.0093
News headlines:
Oil Prices Rally Loses Steam on Stronger Dollar
Rocket-Engine Row Threatens Some Civil Space Programs
Hong Kong Stocks Sink as US Rate-Hike Expectations Rise
Looking at Video and Internet Providers
A Year Later, Record Eludes Dow
American Energy Partners LP to Shut Down
Financial Stocks Climb on Fed Minutes
New York’s Financial Regulator Subpoenas LendingClub
Japan Core Machinery Orders Jump 5.5% in March
Fed to Markets: June Rate Increase Is on the Table
American Eagle Outfitters Profit Rises 39%
Fewer Investors Pay Dividend Taxes
CFPB to Propose Payday-Loan Rule on June 2
Investigators Studying Former 1MDB Official’s Payment to Ex-Goldman Banker
Businesses Assess Effects of New Overtime-Pay Rule
Second-Largest Tribune Shareholder Urges Talks With Gannett
Markets’ Move Toward Fed Rate View Should Be Relief to Central Bankers
Salesforce Boosts Outlook After Topping Expectations
Roundup of Form D Regulatory Filings--May 18
SEC Tightens Crackdown on ‘Adjusted’ Accounting Measures
Urban Outfitters Reports Higher Sales, Driving Profit and Margins
Housing Market Liquidity Isn’t a Concern—For Now
Architect Richard Meier Changes His Palette for New Tower
L Brands Cuts Earnings Guidance, Warns of Sales Decline
FOMC Concerned About Policy Tools
Internet of Things Platform Afero Bags $20.3M
Going Beyond Monetary Policy as a Way to Prevent Crises
Zohar Funds Seek Bankruptcy Probe of Tilton’s TransCare
IMF Gives Preliminary Green Light for Ukraine Bailout Payout
Activist Investors Have a New Target: Washington
Dollar Rises on Hawkish Fed Minutes
Caesars Entertainment to Help in Unit’s Restructuring
Key Passages From the Minutes of the Fed’s April Policy Meeting
Lehman Brokerage Creditors in Line for Another $677 Million
Natural Gas Falls to Three-Week Low
Volkswagen Finance Chief Vows Executive Pay Overhaul
Weaker Mexican Peso Raises Expectations of Central Bank Action
GE’s Jeff Immelt Sees Improving Growth in Second Half of 2016
Analysts See 78-bcf Rise in U.S. Natural-Gas Inventories
Oil Erases Gains as Dollar Strengthens
Voices: Good Habits Help Advisers—and Their Clients—Succeed
Raymond James To Pay Fine for Anti-Money-Laundering Lapses
Professor Suing ECB to Stop QE Warns of Legal Surprises
Hormel Foods Raises Guidance on Earnings Beat
SES CEO Says Concern About  Overcapacity Overblown
Southwest Raises Dividend, Approves Stock Repurchase
Staples Reports Decline in Profit, Sales
Malaysia’s CIMB Chairman to Resume Role After Money-Transfer Review
Sonic Shares Fall on Weak Quarterly Same-Store Sales Outlook
Gap Open to Selling on Amazon
U.S. Crude Supplies Rise; Refinery Runs Surge
Copper Falls on Stronger Dollar
‘Blank Checks’ Look for Bargains in Private-Equity Portfolios
Analog Devices Profit Falls 17%
Chicago Fed Analyzes Impact of Recession on Payday Loan Use
Norway to Drill Untapped Arctic Seas
Smith & Nephew to Sell Gynecology Business to Medtronic
Agricultural Firm Andersons Rejects Falcone’s Takeover Bid
WSJ Pro Interview with the ECB’s Vitas Vasiliauskas
Eurozone Slides Back Into Deflation
Lowe’s Sales, Earnings Top Views
Booz Allen Hamilton Profit, Sales Climb as Backlog Reaches Record
ECB Should Hold Fire on Policy Moves, Official Says
InsideSales.com Adds $17M, Raises Standards for Salespeople
Venture Capitalists Bet on Vaccine Treatments for Cancer
GBP/USD Turns Higher as Poll Lifts Pound
Ackerman’s Take: The Long Road to a Modern Treasury Market
Hannon’s Take: Brexit Risks and the BOE’s Uncertainty
A Bright Horizon for Cruise Lines as Luxury Sea Travel Surges
Europe Wrestles With New Derivative, Capital Requirement Rules
Ackerman’s Take: The Long Road to a Modern Treasury Market
Hong Kong Trading Suspensions Leave Some Investors Stranded
Fighting the Next Global Financial Crisis
China Plans to Get Tough on Corporate Tax Evasion
SABMiller Profit Drops on Charges, Currencies
Stock Markets Fall Across China
German Court to Rule on ECB Bond Buying Next Month
Bank Indonesia Expected to Hold Steady
Record U.S. Airline Traffic Expected This Summer
Australia’s Wage Growth Slows to 18-Year Low
CFPB Highlights Perils of Auto Title Loans as Rule Proposal Nears
Kuka Deal Signals China’s Robot Fixation
Target Gives Weak Forecast
Senate Democrat Tasked With Tax Policy Takes Aim at Derivatives
Market direction: Neutral