Date: 2016-04-26 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 208.26, high: 208.66, low: 207.54, close: 208.61, volume: 66166500, daily change: -0.0017
News headlines:
Slide in Australian Consumer Price Stokes Case For Rate Cut
Fortescue Uses Cash Pile to Pay Back More Debt
Oil Prices Extend Rally on Signs of Waning Supplies
New Zealand Logs Biggest Annual Trade Deficit Since 2009
Australia’s Largest Dairy Processor Cuts Profit Forecast
SEC to Withdraw Order Granting Steven Rattner’s Return to Wall Street
Mondelez International: What to Watch
AT&T Tops Expectations, Adds Customers as It Folds in DirecTV
T-Mobile Posts Strong Subscriber Gains, Swings to Profit
H&R Block Lays Off 250 as U.S. Tax Return Volume Down 5.8%
BP Results Still Hurt by Gulf Spill
Energy Shares Climb With Oil Prices
Brazil Regulator Rejects Settlement Offer From Former Embraer Official
Chipotle Posts First Quarterly Loss as Public Company
Weak Dollar Gives a Lift to U.S. Earnings
Funds Group Urges Congress to Oppose Financial-Advice Rule
U.S. Steel Files Trade Complaint Against China
Oil Companies’ Bet on Kurdistan Turns Sour
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Director to Depart
NYSE Official Criticizes Trading Fee Plan
Buffalo Wild Wings Misses Expectations on Same-Store Sales Drop
S&P Strips Exxon of Triple-A Credit Rating
Government Housing Programs More Insulated From the Housing Crisis
Investors Snap Up U.K. Debt as ‘Brexit’ Fears Ease
Weak Peso Boosts Wal-Mart de Mexico Profits
Axis Capital Operating Profit Falls 39%
EBay Tops Expectations as Sales Rise
Analysts See 1.7 Million-Barrel Rise in Crude Stockpiles
Dollar Extends Losses After Weaker-Than-Expected U.S. Data
Panera Bread Raises Projections
Aflac Operating Profit Rises 7.1%
U.S. Oil Prices Settle at 2016 High
TransUnion Raises Guidance as Results Beat Estimates
Capital One Profit Drops on Higher Provision for Credit Losses
Edwards Lifesciences Raises 2016 View
Hungary’s Central Bank Companies May Keep Some Data Secret
Autonomous-Vehicle Maker Auro Robotics Drives In $2M
Canada’s Central Bank Would Need ‘Shock’ to Return to Rate Cuts
Currency Rates Start to Look Better for Whirlpool
Natural Gas Prices Continue to Retreat
ECB Can’t Respond to Needs of Individual Countries, Says Weidmann
Shareholders Protest at Comerica Annual Meeting
Fiat Chrysler’s Profit Jumps
Caesars Makes Settlement Offer to Bondholder Group
Wells Fargo CEO Says Pressure on  Profit Margins May Continue
Looming German Airport-Staff Strike Threatens UPS Operations
Linn Completes First Exchange in Bid to Protect Investors
Sports Authority Abandons Hope of Reorganizing
Hershey Says Profit and Sales Decline, Buys BarkTHINS Maker
Rule Proposed for Big U.S. Banks’ Liquidity
BOE’s Cunliffe Cautions Investors on U.K. Bank Returns
Voices: How to Guide Clients Who Have Lost Their Jobs
Freeport-McMoRan Loss Widens, Unveils Job Cuts
Veritas to Buy Verisk’s Health Analytics Unit
Fed Set to Propose a Rule on Swaps, Other Financial Contracts
Lockheed Martin Lifts Full-Year Guidance
LendingClub Looks at New Deal to Crack Tough Market
Saudis Pick Up Manhattan Icon
P&G Posts Higher Profit, but Sales Volume Declines
Bob Diamond’s Atlas Mara May Combine With Barclays Africa
Brazil’s Banks Grapple With Recession
Ally Financial Misses Earnings Expectations
Citigroup Shareholders Rebuke Bank on Pay
Corporate Financial Disclosures at Risk
Why Goldman Is Inviting In Savers
Three More Regulators Approve Wall Street Pay Rule
Eli Lilly Revenue Boosted by New Drug Sales
Malaysia’s 1MDB Defaults on Series of Bonds
French Unemployment Fell in March
DuPont Lifts Outlook on Strong Agriculture Results
Reynolds American Sales Surge on Lorillard Acquisition
Coach Tops Expectations as Sales Improve
3M’s Profit Rises on Stronger Margins, Tax Benefit
U.S. Consumer-Confidence Index Fell in April
McGraw Hill Financial Tops Earnings Expectations
The Fed’s Inflation Fail
I Hate This Market, I Love This Market
Goldman Sachs Hires Former Credit Suisse Executive
Richmond Fed Cools From March
NBER Paper Examines Age and Gender Profiling in the Workplace
Entergy Earnings Top Expectations
Hungary Cuts Key Interest Rate
IBM Raises Quarterly Dividend
Simon Property Group Boosts Outlook
Retail Sales Fall in First Three Weeks of April
RadioShack Names Retail Veteran Dene Rogers as CEO
Supervalu Earnings Beat, Though Sales Fall at Save-A-Lot
Former Valeant Financial Chief to Testify Before Senate
AK Steel Profit Loss Narrows on Lower Costs
Ford Earnings: What to Watch
Thomson Reuters Beats Earnings Expectations
U.S. Home-Price Growth Continued in February
Barrick Gold Posts Loss
Mitsubishi Used Improper Fuel-Economy Tests Since 1991
Turkey to Simplify Monetary Policy Framework
Janus Posts Lower Profit
T. Rowe Price Profit Falls Less Than Expected
JetBlue Profit Soars on Cheap Fuel
Yen Extends Gains Against the Dollar
Weekly Chain-Store Sales Edge Up
Alibaba Affiliate Gains Clout in China’s Financial System
Teck Resources Profit Climbs 38%
Office Depot Results Hurt by Staples Uncertainty
TaskEasy Scoops Up $12M for Home Tasks
Zero Zero Robotics Raises $25M for Hobby Drone
DBS Bank Takes Stake in the ‘Siri for Banking,’ Kasisto
China’s Venture Capital Slowdown Is Less Obvious
UrbanStems Plans to Expand Amid Blooming Competition
Copper Sinks Further as Risk Appetite Wanes
Schlesinger’s Take: Lights, Camera, Dodd-Frank!
RayVio Served $26M for Plans of Self-Disinfecting Water Bottles
Hannon’s Take: A Late Recoverer
Schlesinger’s Take: Lights, Camera, Dodd-Frank!
Venture-Capital Firms Dial Back on Fintech; Funding to Online Lenders Plunges
Caution Reigns in Asia Markets Ahead of BOJ, Fed Decisions
Where Wal-Mart and Philanthropy Mix
Standard Chartered Shares Soar as Bad Loans Ease
Canada’s Husky Energy Posts Another Quarterly Loss
Oil Recoups Losses on Weaker Dollar; Volatility Ahead
RBNZ Likely to Stand Pat on Rates
Ant Financial in Record Fundraising
China Bans Some New Coal Power Plants
Alibaba-Disney Venture Is Frozen in China
Hong Kong Share Traders Cut Risk Ahead of Key Market Events
How Long Can the Bank of Japan Wait on Easing?
Lockheed Says Qatar Budget Woes Could Delay Defense Deal
Business Spending Points to Soft Growth
Market direction: Neutral