Date: 2015-11-12 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 208.88, high: 208.94, low: 207.66, close: 207.74, volume: 67846000, daily change: -0.0039
News headlines:
Mylan Set to Lose in $26 Billion Hostile Takeover Battle for Perrigo
India Shares Fall Along With Rest of the Region
Deutsche Bank Names New Head of Corporate, Investment Bank in Asia Pacific
Ethan Allen’s Chief in Fight of His Life
Copper Swoon Presses Glencore, Other Miners
Stock Decline Picks Up Steam
Nordstrom Earnings Fall Sharply
Fed Weighs Tightening Revolving-Door Curbs
LoanDepot Postpones IPO
Fischer: Strong Dollar Delayed Rate Rise, but Fed Could Move in December
Hottest Energy Trade: A Ride Aboard the Colonial Pipeline
China’s Stock Crackdown: ‘Kill the Chicken to Scare the Monkey’
Activist Investors Seek Changes to ITG Board
Warren Buffett Has an Image Problem
Petrobras Reports Third-Quarter Loss
Peru’s Central Bank Holds Interest Rate Steady
Calpers Sells $3 Billion of Real-Estate Holdings to Blackstone Unit
Brazil’s Inflation Struggles Spark Concerns About ‘Fiscal Dominance’
Yum Brands Reports Growth in China Sales
Asian Morning Briefing: Stocks Fall as Investors Study Central Bank Clues
El Pollo Loco Lowers Guidance As Sales Growth Slows
Farmland Prices Decline Across Parts of Midwest
Planet Fitness Raises Outlook
If Spain’s Economy Is Doing Well, Why Aren’t Its Banks?
Party City Logs Weak Retail Sales
Fossil Cuts Outlook, Profit Falls 45%
Chile’s Central Bank Leaves Monetary-Policy Rate Unchanged
Dollar Slips Against Euro and Yen
Energy Future Leaps Ahead with Fidelity Pact
Rolls-Royce Shares Dive After Earnings Outlook Warning
WSJ Survey: Economists See Downside Risks Receding
Economists Overwhelmingly Expect Fed to Raise Interest Rates in December
Grainger Shares Decline as Outlook Disappoints
Why Are Real Interest Rates So Low?
Why US Unemployment is Not Done Falling
Oil Prices Slide as Crude Inventory Rises More Than Expected
BAE Systems Cuts Earnings Outlook
OPEC Oil Output Falls on Iraqi Export Woes
Gold Prices Fall to Lowest Levels in Over Five Years
Canada’s Biggest Pension Fund Generates 1.6% Quarterly Return
EPA Clears GE Plan to End Dredging of PCBs From Hudson
Natural Gas Inches Lower
Fantasy-Sports Site FanDuel Fights Order to Shut Down
ECB’s Mersch: Regulators Should Be Mindful of Burden Placed on Banks
Dudley: Can’t Say When Fed Will Raise Rates
Copper Prices Hit Six-Year Low
Mexican Retailers On a Roll as Shopping Weekend Nears
Fed Shouldn’t Be Locked Into Gradual Rate-Hike Path: Bullard and Lacker
Fed’s Evans Stays Cautious on Rate Increases
U.S. Budget Deficit Edges Higher in October
Roche Plans to Exit Four Plants as Focus Shifts to Specialty Drugs
ECB’s Weidmann: Reserve Quantitative Easing for Exceptional Circumstances
Deutsche Bank Reshuffles Top Ranks of Investment Bank
Bank of America Says Leitch Will Be New Counsel
U.S. Natural-Gas Inventories Seen Up in Week
Merck Loses Appeal in Cubicin Patent Case
Viacom Revenue Falls on Weak Film Segment, Cable Costs
Canada’s Oil Producers Brace for Latest Test: Higher Carbon Taxes
Case for U.K. Rate Rise Some Way From Being Made, Says BOE’s Haldane
Low Inflation Keeps Bank of Mexico on Hold
U.S. Jobless Claims Unchanged Last Week
NYSE Challenges Fairness of ‘Flash Boys’ Exchange
U.S. Crude-Oil Supplies Rise; Gasoline Inventories Fall
KanAm Grund Inks $15 Million Athens Property Deal With OPAP SA
Heavy-Equipment Dealer Finning Slashes 1,100 Jobs
Manulife Profit Falls 43% on Charges
Hip Tastemakers Choose a Traditional  House
Hertz Adds New Executives
WSJ Survey: Fed Likely on Hold at Least Three Months After Liftoff
Globalization and Central Banking
Diageo Seeks Consumer Research to Help Reverse Sales Slump
U.S. Crude-Oil Inventories Seen Up in Week
Anglo American Shakes Up Management Team
Lacker: Central Bank Can Influence Inflation Through Interest Rates
Manchester United Revenue Soars With Return to Champions League
Eurozone Industrial Output Falls
Yellen Says It Is Critical to Assess How Monetary Policy Works in Post-Crisis World
Banco do Brasil Results Miss Expectations
Molson Expects More Leverage From MillerCoors Deal
Bullard: Fed’s Goals Have Been Met, Yet Policy Remains Accommodative
Noble Group’s Profit Plunges, Finance Chief Resigns
Barrick Gold to Sell Noncore Assets for $720 Million
Encana Posts Another Steep Quarterly Loss
Advance Auto Says CEO to Retire, Adds Starboard CEO to Board
Kohl’s Stock Rises on Earnings Beat, Sales Increase
Liberty Media to Reclassify Shares Into Three Tracking-Stock Groups
Germany’s Merck Lifts Outlook as Profit Jumps
United Technologies Sets Accelerated Buyback
Hannon’s Take: On the Fed, ECB Borders
Energizer Profit, Sales Fall
ECB’s Mario Draghi Reasserts Readiness to Expand Stimulus
Reforming the ECB
Hermès Sales Lifted by Japan, Western Europe
Hong Kong Outshines Other Asian Markets
Dollar Flat Against Yen, Australian Dollar Jumps
Philippine Central Bank Leaves Rates Unchanged
The ECB Should Exit the Troika
SABMiller Hammered by Currencies, Weak Volume
Private Economists Think BOJ Is Too Optimistic on Inflation
Even Janet Yellen Gets No Respect
Burberry Reports Rise in Profit
China Changes Its Currency-Market Ways
Australians Wonder if Job Surge Will Last
RWE Profit Hurt by Low Prices, Tax
Paninvest Seeks $500 Million From Sale of Insurance Business
Oil Prices Make Slippery Gains In Asia
Gold Demand Rose 8% in Third Quarter
Wal-Mart’s Black Friday: No Longer a Five-Day Affair
Market direction: Fall