Date: 2015-11-17 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 202.32, high: 205.69, low: 202.18, close: 205.62, volume: 117645200, daily change: 0.0152
News headlines:
Canadian Pacific Outlines Norfolk Southern Merger Proposal
Yellen Reiterates Opposition to Emergency-Lending Curbs
Millennium Health’s Bankruptcy Shows Dangers of Leveraged Loans
Square IPO Offers Up a Litmus Test
Dollar’s Revival Poses New Threat to Commodities
Companies Reassess Travel Policies in Wake of Attacks
Regulators Probe Startup Valuations
E-Cigarette Sales Rapidly Lose Steam
Rivals Take Aim at UPS, FedEx With Services Focus
Wal-Mart U.S. Sales Strengthen
Calpers Gears Up to Release Carried Interest Numbers Despite Stragglers
Suncor Projects Lower Oil Output in 2016
IPic Sues Regal and AMC Over Movie Screening Rights
Cargill Shakes Up Leadership Structure
U.S. Indicts USPlabs Over Dietary Supplements
Air Liquide to Buy Airgas for $10.3 Billion
Piper Jaffray to Buy Energy-Investment Firm Simmons & Co.
Jack in the Box’s Profit Climbs
Asian Morning Briefing: U.S. Stocks End Little Changed
Brazil´s Batista Says He Wants to Do Business Again
Bob Evans Taps Saed Mohseni as New CEO
International Flavors CEO Plans to Increase R&D Spending
Oil Prices Fall Toward $40 a Barrel
How Companies’ Surpluses Contribute to the Savings Glut
U.S. Stocks End Little Changed
La-Z-Boy Reports Improved Profit, Margins
It’s Easy to Dismiss Some Monetary-Policy Ideas Quickly
The Role of Bank Branches in the Digital Age
General Electric Conducts Synchrony Share Swap
Natural Gas Falls on Revised Inventory Data
Fed’s Tarullo Doesn’t Address Monetary Policy in Remarks
Cognizant CEO Leaves Door Open for Acquisitions
Caesars Battles Spill Over to Lawyers
U.S.-Listed China Firms Hurry Homeward
Analysts Forecast Increase in Crude Inventories
Energy Bets Help Take Down Hedge Fund
JP Morgan Expects 4th-Quarter Trading Down Around 15% From 3rd Quarter
Inflation Picks Up, but Trend Remains Soft
Gold Slips as Investors Turn Focus Back to Fed
U.S. Focuses on Banks’ Reports to Track Islamic State Targets
TMX Group Didn’t Get Any Listing Fees from Hydro One IPO
Raymond James Hires $2.9 Billion Team from Merrill
American to Change Frequent-Flier Program
Monsanto Weighs Potential Deals
Big African Debt Burdens, Written Off, Are Back Again
Schnitzer Steel CEO Sees No Additional Big Cost Cuts
Australia Regulator Rejects BP’s Deep-Sea Drilling Plans
Remote Clients Are an Opportunity, Not a Worry
U.S. Targets RBS, J.P. Morgan Executives in Criminal Probes
Terrorism’s Impact on Travel
Federal Private-Pension Plan Safety Net Running $76.4 Billion Deficit
Judge Denies $760,000 Bonus Payment to Samson CEO
Ireland’s ECB Governor Proposes Bailout Funds Linked to GDP Growth
Ethan Allen Takes Aim at Activist’s Board Nominees
Fed’s Powell Touts Benefits of Centrally Cleared Repo Transactions
Dick’s Sporting Goods Cuts Outlook
Ex-ECB’s Trichet: Not ‘Strange’ For Fed and ECB to Have Different Policies
Top SEC Accountant Urges Supplemental Use of Global Rules
Sarepta Cites Positive Muscular Dystrophy Drug Trial Results
U.S. Industrial Production Falls 0.2% in October
Gold’s Outlook Isn’t Shiny
Goldman CFO Defends Investing and Lending Businesses
Standard Chartered’s India Unit Names Zarin Daruwala as CEO
Home-Builder Confidence Declines
Hungary Leaves Rates Unchanged
President of Shell Canada to Step Down
ECB’s Lautenschlaeger: Implement Bank Rules, Don’t Make New Ones
U.S. Retail Sales Rise in First Two Weeks of November
TJX Earnings, Sales Top Expectations
Court: Congress Must Comply with Insider-Trading Probe
Russia in Midst of ‘Full Blown Banking Crisis,’ Says Sberbank Chief
Citic Securities Chairman to Retire
Marathon Again Boosts Cash Consideration for MarkWest
Credit Suisse Taps Malhotra to Lead Unit for Wealthy Asia Pacific Entrepreneurs
U.S. Chain-Store Sales Slump in Latest Week
Australian Supermarkets Restrict Buying of Baby Formula
Greece Reaches Deal on Next Slice of Bailout Aid
Buell’s Take: The ECB’s Transparency Challenge
Houlihan Lokey Boosts European Reach
Investor Shift: Hate the Oil, Love the Big Oil Company
How the Fed Has Warped the 401(k)
Barclays Names Mike Bagguley as COO of Investment Bank
Japan’s Struggle to Spur Inflation
EasyJet Sees Short-Term Terror Impact
Bank Indonesia Stands Pat on Interest Rates
U.K. Consumer Prices Fell in October
Australian Robot Lays 300 Bricks an Hour
Asian Shares Regain Footing
RBA Cautiously Optimistic on State of Economy
Dollar Cements Gains
Home Depot Reports Solid Sales Growth
Market direction: Rise