Date: 2015-02-02 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 200.57, high: 202.17, low: 199.13, close: 199.45, volume: 197729700, daily change: -0.0126
News headlines:
Office Depot, Staples in Merger Talks
Mapping City Wealth by Housing Values
Tronox Nears Deal to Buy FMC Soda-Ash Unit
Corporate Watch
Financial Briefing Book: News Digest
Anadarko Petroleum Cuts Loss in Half
Inflation Well Short of Fed’s 2% Target
The Big Number
Credits & Debits: News Digest
S&P, Calpers Settle Suit for $125 Million
How the Justice Department, S&P Came to Terms
U.S. Declines to Prosecute News Corp
Ally Financial CEO Carpenter Steps Down
Firms Back Tax Reform—Just Not Obama’s
Emerging Markets Stage Surprising Revival
Shanghai Disneyland Opening Pushed to First Half of 2016
Money-Laundering Fears Fuel an RBC Retreat
Jeb Bush and the Power of Positive Thinking
Australian Mall Owners to Merge
Oil Prices Hurt Exxon’s Profits
Sysco, FTC at Standstill on Buyout Talks
Kingstown Reports 9.5% Stake in Ocwen Financial
Lululemon Founder Wilson Quits Board
NYSE Moves to Delist RadioShack
Bank Trade Groups Critical of New FSB Proposal
Asian Morning Briefing: U.S. Stocks Rally
Energy Savers Pose Threat to Power Grid
Swiss Brace for Franc’s Impact
Hedge Funds to Seek Higher Safeway Price
Hartford Financial Core Profit Rises 12%
Management Group Buying Out Guggenheim’s Multistrategy Fund
Visa Names NBCUniversal Executive As Finance Chief
Asia’s Oil Giants Rethink Spending Plans
Obama Proposes Tax on Large Financial Firms
Three More Energy Companies in Texas Warn of Layoffs
Oil Rallies, Despite Strikes, Data
Overseas Slowdown Pinches U.S. Factories
Fields of Gold: Non-GMO Farming
Gold Ends Slightly Lower
Investors Pour Record Amount Into European High-Yield Bond Funds
China Antigraft Drive Hits Financial Sector
Lehman Brothers Raises Estimate of Cash for Creditors to $90.6 Billion
Lesson From China: Hard Times for Coal
Chipotle Is an Expensive Burrito
Small Banks Seek a Break on Rules
ECB’s Noyer Says Greece Can Reduce Debt Ratio with Economic Growth
Choppy Session for European Stocks
U.K. Warns on Risk of Greek Standoff
Chorus to Acquire 13 Bombardier Q400 NextGen Aircraft
U.S. Consumers in Rainy-Day Mode
Voices: Jeremy Office, on Showing Value to Entrepreneurial Clients
Queensland Election Dashes Bankers’ Australian Fee Hopes
Dubai Bourse Operator’s Profit Jumps
Julius Baer to Cut Jobs After Franc Move
Imperial Oil Profit Falls 36%
Cement Companies Take Step Toward Sealing Merger
Retitling a Late Husband’s IRA
Sentence of 3 Years Sought in ‘Nut Rage’
Swiss Franc Drops to Two-Week Lows
Everbright Bids for Sun Hung Kai Unit
Nasdaq Launches Lower Access Fee Program
Intuitive Surgical Unveils $1 Billion Buyback
EnLink to Acquire Coronado Midstream
India Car Sales Rise in January
Manila Doubles Down on Gambling
Mylan to Buy Women’s Health Businesses
GM Compensation Fund Receives 4,180 Claims Before Deadline
Lands’ End CEO To Resign
Reliance, Future Group Apply to Start Payments Banks
Eurozone Manufacturing Stays Close to Stagnation
Macau Struggles as Crackdown Hits
Bank of Russia Defends Independence
Turkey Central Bank Mulls Rate Cut
Asian Shares Weak as China Falls
Refineries Stay Open Amid Walkout
Regulator Objects to Dish’s Wireless Deal
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Market direction: Rise