Date: 2017-03-29 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 233.27, high: 235.81, low: 233.14, close: 235.32, volume: 93483900, daily change: 0.0073
News headlines:
Why China’s Financial Plumbing Is Getting Clogged
Nikkei Down Amid Declines in Financial Stocks
Fed Officials Say They May Need to Pick Up Pace of Rate Increases
Oil Prices Retreat as Dollar Climbs
ConocoPhillips to Sell Chunk of Canadian Oil-Sands Assets
Legg Mason to Cut 3% of Corporate Staff
Toshiba’s Westinghouse Electric Files for Bankruptcy Protection
Kushner Cos. Ends Talks for Skyscraper Deal
Low-Rise Condo Project Draws From Queens Industrial Past
Natural Gas at Highest in Nearly Two Months
Nasdaq Composite Logs Fourth Straight Session of Gains
For Commodities, China’s Output Becoming a Growing Factor
Margin Debt Hit All-Time High in February
Market Talk: Daily Analysis Roundup
The Risks to America’s Booming Economy
Corrigan’s Take: Netflix Must Pay Relativity’s Bankruptcy Bills
One Vote That Rules Them All
Fiscal Delegation in a Monetary Union
Synovus Financial in Talks to Buy Cabela’s Financial Arm
Fed’s Evans: Job, Inflation Progress Fully Justifies U.S. Rate Increases
SunEdison Files Plan to Repay Billions in Debt
British Pound Pares Losses as Brexit Begins
Ford to Record $295 Million Charge on Recalls
Oil Rises as Inventory Data Signal Strong Demand
Metals: Stronger Dollar Weighs on Gold
Paragon Offshore Can Put Reorganization Plan to Creditor Vote
FCC Steps Back from Program Subsidizing Broadband for the Poor
LSE Given Competitive Edge After Merger With Deutsche Börse Blocked
Former Citizens Bankers Say They Faked Data for Customer-Meeting Program
Bank of Mexico Transfers Excess Funds to Mexican Treasury
Fed’s Williams Backs 3 Rate Rises in 2017, but Says More May Be Needed
Eurozone Growth Pessimists Will Be Proved Wrong (Again)
Bankrupt Cancer Treatment Center Proposes Sale
Analysts See Large Drain From U.S. Natural-Gas Inventories
How to Engineer a Trump Boom
Cleveland Fed Post Looks at Residual Seasonality in GDP Growth
U.K. Airlines Face Bumpy Post-Brexit Path
AmEx Fires Another Shot at Chase’s Sapphire Reserve
Transcript: Audience Q&A With Fed’s Jerome Powell in West Virginia
Why Home Buyers Should Consider Adjustable-Rate Mortgages
SEC Pick Jay Clayton to Get Senate Panel’s Green Light Next Week
Rosengren Says Fed Should Raise Rates Four Times in 2017
Shadow Banking Getting Bigger, but Perhaps Not Better
How Accurate are Stress-Test Models?
OxyChem Backs New Maxus Chapter 11 Plan
Collapsed Skyscraper Deal Another Setback for Anbang
Westinghouse Adviser Outlines Company’s Plan to Survive
Transcript: Reporters’ Q&A With Fed Governor Jerome Powell in West Virginia
Supreme Court Revives Merchants’ Suit on Credit-Card Surcharge Law
Greece’s Eurobank Reports Profit Fall on Quarter
U.S. Crude Oil Inventories Rise Near Expectations
Starboard Wins More Board Seats, Replaces CEO at Depomed
U.S. Pending Home Sales Surged in Warm February
EU Blocks LSE, Deutsche Börse Merger
Arab Nations Push to Develop Their Own Defense Industries
China Energy Takes 19.9% Stake in Cowen
EU Blocks LSE, Deutsche Börse Merger | Another Setback for Bitcoin ETFs | Ex-Regulators See Room for Rules Rollback | Wells Fargo Reaches $110M Class-Action Deal | Chinese Smartphone Users Flock to Risky Investments | Ackerman’s Take: SEC-CFTC Merger Will Never Happen
Geron’s Take: Fuzzy Acquisition Prices, and the Stories Behind the Figures
AI’s Next Stop: Back-Office Risks
Sequoia Bets on ActionIQ
Ackerman’s Take: The Merger Everyone’s Talking About That Will Never Happen
EU Blocks LSE, Deutsche Börse Merger | Another Setback for Bitcoin ETFs | Ex-Regulators See Room for Rules Rollback | Wells Fargo Reaches $110M Class-Action Deal | Chinese Smartphone Users Flock to Risky Investments | Ackerman’s Take: SEC-CFTC Merger Will Never Happen
Hannon’s Take: Trigger Pulled, Impact Awaited
Shipping-Technology Startup Freightos Raises $25 Million
A Soaring Dollar and Falling Yuan: The Sure Bets That Weren’t
J.P. Morgan Scours Europe for Best Post-Brexit Home
U.K. Consumer Borrowing Kept Rising in February Amid Quickening Inflation
Bank of Thailand Raises Growth Forecast, Stands Pat on Rates
CtW Investment Calls for Governance Changes at Universal Health Services
Palank’s Take: Signs of Life Emerge for Stalled Minnesota Iron Ore Facility
Palank’s Take: Signs of Life Emerge for Stalled Minnesota Iron Ore Facility
Merrill Lynch Restructures Leadership
Market direction: Neutral