Date: 2015-03-03 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 210.78, high: 212.06, low: 210.72, close: 211.99, volume: 87491400, daily change: 0.0063
News headlines:
India Shares Hit New High After Rate Cut
Asiana Settles Suits With 72 Passengers Over 2013 Crash
J.P. Morgan Treasurer to Step Down
Australia’s Slowdown Sets Stage for Another Rate Cut
Financial Briefs: News Digest
Crackdown Deals Macau a Rough Hand
Business Watch: News Digest
Hog, Cattle Prices Slide as Meat Demand Cools
L.A. Developer Offers to Buy Former Revel Casino Hotel
Venture Plans New Office Space for Downtown Brooklyn
Yellen Scolds Wall Street on Culture, Ethics
Dick’s Kicks Adidas Off Shelves to Make Space for ‘Idol’ Ware
Kinder Morgan’s Oil Pipeline Plan Hits Mountain
Citigroup Deal Shrinks the Bank’s Umbrella
McDonald’s Old CEO to Get $3 Million for Consulting
Cal Dive Files for Chapter 11
Target to Cut Several Thousand Jobs
GameStop Raises Annual Dividend by 9%
DuPont Rejects Trian Request for  Universal Ballot
Bristow Takes a Tilt on New Choppers
Asian Morning Briefing: U.S. Stocks Retreat
Oil Prices Settle Higher
Smith & Wesson Boosts Annual Guidance
Bob Evans Opts Not to Spin Off Food Ops
Asia’s Deal Machine Has Sand in Gears
Vitamin Shoppe Names Colin Watts CEO
J.P. Morgan Settles Robo-Signing Charges
Outflows Slow at Flagship Pimco Fund
Bell Helicopter Announces Deals
Sugar, Coffee and Orange Juice Slide on Weaker Brazilian Real
BlackRock Toughens Stance on Boards
Denmark Intervenes in Currency Market in a Big Way
Smells Like Teen Dispirit
Canada Telecom Company BCE Reaches Pension Deal With Sun Life
Civil Trial Begins in Trinity Mirror’s Phone-Hacking Case
NuVasive: Court Overturns Medtronic Award
Copper Drops Ahead of China Meeting
Dollar Slips Ahead of U.S. Jobs Data
American Eagle Energy Skips Interest Payment
Big Canada Pension Fund Invests in Deimos Asset Hedge Fund
Bracing for Bond Volatility as Rates Set to Rise
NBC News Bringing in New Leadership
Best Buy Rewards Shareholders
Springleaf to Acquire Citigroup’s OneMain
European Stocks Close Lower
Libyan Oil Production Jumps Despite New Attacks on Fields
Turkish Lira Keeps Sliding on Rate-Cut Worries
Scotiabank Increases Dividend, Reports Earnings Rise
Ukraine Lifts Key Rate to 30%
Investors Balk at Deals for Specialty Retailers
Voices: Leisa Peterson, on Gauging Your Clients’ True Needs
Navistar Narrows Loss
Harker Named New Philadelphia Fed Chief
Dos Santos Tries to Foil Caixabank’s Bid for BPI
Goldman Sachs Cuts Singapore Bankers
Brazilian Real at Weakest Against Dollar Since 2004
Anadarko Sees Lower 2015 Capital Spending
Lukoil Hurt by Falling Oil Price
Delta Air Revenue Metric Falls in February on Forex
Stryker Board Approves $2 Billion in Buybacks
Austria Sells Bonds at Negative Yield
Dick’s Sporting Goods Earnings Rise
Caixabank Plans to Boost Profit Measure
AutoZone Earnings Rise
HK Airlines in Talks to Sell Stake
Hong Kong Shares Edge Toward Seven-Year High
Royal Dutch Shell Offers Scrip Dividend
Inflation in Developed Economies Halved in January
Sweden Seeks to Drop Budget Surplus Target
Noble Founder Buys More Shares
Glencore Returns to Profit
China Shares Fall
Barclays Hit by Forex Charge
Exchanges in Asia Seek to Counter China Stock Tie-Up
Hedge Funds Failing to Meet Expectations
China’s Kaisa Proposes Onshore-Debt Restructuring
Germany’s Merck Cautious After Deal Spree
German Retail Sales Accelerate
Australia Central Bank Holds Rates
Russian Investors Launch New Energy Empire
Kate Spade Gives Downbeat Guidance
Market direction: Neutral