Date: 2016-01-12 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 193.01, high: 193.41, low: 189.82, close: 192.11, volume: 187941300, daily change: 0.001
News headlines:
In Cuba, Cash Trickles In for Budding Capitalists
BP to Lay Off About 4,000 Workers
Tuna-Fishing Dispute Keeps U.S. Boats Out of Pacific Waters
Oil Prices Regain Strength But Still on Shaky Ground
Junk-Bond Selling Hurt Some Fund Firms
Behind Toyota’s Late Shift Into Self-Driving Cars
Disney Hopes for Magic in the Middle Kingdom
California Regulators Reject Volkswagen’s Recall Plan
Stocks Rally in Volatile Session
Amid Weak Oil Prices, Pemex Touts Its Rock-Bottom Production Costs
Oil Industry Cuts Back As Price of Oil Drops
Starbucks to Add Thousands of Coffee Shops in China
Vale to Tap Credit Lines for $3 Billion to Pay Off Bonds
Norfolk Joins Its Virginia and Pocahontas Divisions
MetLife to Shed Chunk of Life Unit
Aéropostale to Eliminate About 100 Jobs in Cost-Cutting Move
Why Auto Stocks Are Sinking
Analysts Forecast 2.1M-Barrel Rise in Crude Supplies
Beijing Flexes Muscle to Put Yuan in Line
Nasdaq to Suspend KaloBios Shares
Yum Posts Gain in China Same-Store Sales
Financial Hardship in Energy Sector to Deepen, Study Predicts
CSX Revenue Falls 13% as Coal Shipments Decline
Asian Morning Briefing: Stocks Rally to End Volatile Session
TiVo Names Financial Chief as Interim CEO
Ford Declares Supplemental Dividend
Canadian Banks See Challenges in Oil’s Drop
P&G’S Beauty Deal With Coty Won’t Include a Top-Selling Perfume
Renewable Energy Is a ‘Bubble,’ Says Financier
Arena Pharma Shares Rise on Collaboration Pact With Boehringer
Natural Gas Sinks on Weather Outlook
Red Robin to Post Decline in Core Sales
GM Trial Over Faulty Ignition Switch Gets Underway
Tractor Supply Says Sales Hurt by Warm Weather
Citizens Groups Worry Arch Coal Can’t Fund Cleanup
Senate Defeats ‘Audit the Fed’ Bill
Shire’s CEO Pushed Hard for Baxalta Deal
Vantage Drilling to Clash With Hsin Chi Su Over Bankruptcy-Exit Plan
A Stopgap Solution After a Mortgage Falls Through
Commodity Bust Batters Freeport-McMoRan
Voices: Tackle the ‘Adviser Gap’ by Mentoring Young Staff
China’s Dalian Wanda Buys Legendary Entertainment
China Cosco Makes Sole Piraeus Bid
Corn, Soybeans Up After Government Forecasters Cut Estimate
Richmond Fed’s Lacker Reiterates Inflation Will Drive Pace of Rate Increases
Discovery Wants to Be the ESPN of Europe
Finance Watch
Delta Surpasses United for No. 2 Airline Spot by Traffic
EU Launches Antitrust Review of Halliburton-Baker Hughes Merger
BTG Pactual Aims to Sell Stakes in Firms
Palladium Falls to Five-Year Low
Copper Sinks to Six-Year Low
All But Two Regional Fed Banks Backed Discount-Rate Increase in December: Minutes
U.S. Oil Prices to Hold Below $50 a Barrel This Year and 2017, EIA Says
Harley’s Macho Image Gets in Way of Wooing New Buyers
What Is a Reversal vs. Correction?
As U.S.-Stock Funds Struggle, Money Goes Overseas
U.K. Pound Sinks Against Dollar
Should Bondholders Always Own Some Junk?
GameStop’s Holiday Sales Fuel Concerns About Downloads
Despite Hit ETF Product, WisdomTree Shares Sink
Candidates for Poland’s Rates Panel Against Fast Euro Track
Banks Slash Oil-Price Forecasts Again
Retailers Hired Fewer Holiday Workers For Second Straight Year
Carney: Bank of England Ready to Raise Capital Buffer
Investors in Volatility Enjoy Wild Ride
Pier 1 Recalling Swinging Chairs, Stands
Showdown of German Real-Estate Titans Heats Up
Anthem Enrolls More Members Than Expected
Melrose Weighs Making Offer for Philips Lighting Arm
NanoPay Acquires MintChip Technology from Royal Canadian Mint
Allscripts Expects to Post Record Bookings In Fourth Quarter
Greece Renews Antiausterity Calls
Cognizant Technology Says Guidance Not Affected by Flooding in India
Sina, Weibo Announce Board Shuffles
Popeyes Raises Earnings Guidance on Strong Same-Store Sales
Chinese Consumers Race to Buy Dollars as Yuan Slides
McDonald’s Faces EU Antitrust Complaint
IHS Inc. Offers Downbeat Outlook for the Year
Hospital Bed Maker Hill-Rom Beats Revenue Estimates
U.S. Retail Sales Fall 1% in First Week of January
Hungary Takes Unconventional Route
Brazil Center-South Sugarcane Crush at 10.4 Million Tons
Build-A-Bear Gives Guidance for Fiscal 2015, 2016
AbbVie, Genentech Leukemia Therapy Granted FDA Priority Review
Dana Holding Offers Downbeat View, Boosts Repurchase Plan
Wellcare Issues 2016 Outlook Mostly Below Analyst Views
The Happening Boerum Hill
Zoetis Cuts Estimates After European Commission Tax Ruling
American Airlines To Take $592 Million Write-Off on Venezuelan Currency
Fed Still Engaged in Loose Monetary Policy, Says U.S. Central Banker
Horizon Pharma Lifts Sales Guidance
Petrobras Slashes Investment Plan
Express Raises Outlook
Airbus Outsells Boeing With 1,036 Net Jetliner Orders
Morgan Stanley Cuts Yuan Forecasts
Broadcasters Face Deadline Tuesday to Join FCC Auction
Starboard Pares Darden Stake by 11%
India’s Industrial Output Contracts Unexpectedly in November
U.S. Chain-Store Sales Rise in Latest Week
Kuroda Urges BOJ to Change Deflationary Mindset
China Allows More Central Banks to Enter Onshore Forex Market
Hilsenrath’s Take: The State of the Union is Cruise Control
Official Says China Has Tools to Defeat Bets Against Yuan
Some OPEC Members Want Urgent Meeting, Says Nigeria
France Central Bank Governor Warns on Low Rates
U.S. Small-Business Confidence Improves Slightly
Asian Brewers Mull $3 Billion Bids for Peroni, Grolsch Brands
Asian Shares Slip, Though China Ekes Out Gain
Leaning Against the Wind
Telefónica Prepares Possible Sale of Noncore Assets
Market direction: Fall