Date: 2016-09-01 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 217.61, high: 217.75, low: 216.47, close: 217.38, volume: 85269500, daily change: -0.0028
News headlines:
Retailers Seek U.S. Help With Shipping Crisis
Singapore’s STI Inches Lower Head of U.S. Jobs Report
Online Lenders Face Higher Litigation Risk After U.S. Court Ruling
Alcoa Ends Legal Fight With Australian Partner Alumina
Oil Prices Up but Lacks Drivers to Sustain Momentum
UPS to Raise Service Rates by 4.9% on Average
Thomas Siebel Injects More Funding Into C3 IoT in $70M Round
ISM Manufacturing Index Showed Contraction in August
Enbridge Energy Partners Shelves Sandpiper Pipeline Project
Ambarella Shares Slide Amid Revenue, Profit Fall
After Political Upheaval, Brazil Investors Hope for Rebound
Lululemon Offers Tepid Forecast
Biogen’s Alzheimer’s Therapy Granted FDA Fast-Track Status
HP Enterprise Seeks Buyer for Software Operations
Emerald Hunter’s Bankruptcy Puts Gems Up for Sale
U.S. Stocks Await Jobs Data
Roundup of Form D Regulatory Filings--Sept. 1
Broadcom’s Adjusted Profit Beats Expectations
Life-Insurance Customers Push Back Over Surprise Cost Increases
Verizon Names New Finance Chief to Replace Retiring Shammo
Cooper Raises Annual Guidance; CFO to Retire
Smith & Wesson Lifts Outlook
Gap’s Sales Continue Decline in August as Banana Republic Drags
Natural Gas Sinks on Large Stockpile Addition
Takeda Gets Financial Help From U.S. in Developing Zika Vaccine
SandRidge Shareholders Criticize Chapter 11 Plan
Moody’s: A Preference for the Positive?
Dollar Slips After Weak Manufacturing Data
Oil Prices Slide as Oversupply Comes Back Into Focus
Arraignment Date Set for Explo Executives
California Senate Votes to Create State-Sponsored Retirement Savings Plan
Throwback Western Faces Box-Office Test
Verizon Declares 2.2% Increase in Quarterly Dividend
Pennsylvania Tightens Rules on Abandoned Retirement Accounts
Fed’s Mester: ‘Gradual’ Increase in Interest Rate Appropriate
How Banks Could Sue the Fed Over Stress Tests
Judge Approves Sale of Linc USA Oil and Gas Assets
Currency Trading Down for the First Time Since 2001
ECB’s Nowotny: Don’t Blame Central Bankers for Low Rates
Wal-Mart to Cut 7,000 Back-Office Store Jobs
Campbell Soup Earnings Stung By Fresh-Food Business
Bank Groups Weigh Legal Challenge to Fed Stress Tests
Fed Odds Take Bank Stocks for a Ride
Farmers Marvel, Scoff at Self-Driving Tractor
SpaceX Explosion Destroys Satellite
Bond Investors Cash Out in Europe, Head to U.S.
Berlin Calls on Brussels in Fiat Chrysler Emissions Spat
Mexican Growth Expectations Fall in Central Bank Survey
Natural Gas Sinks After Larger-than-expected Stockpile Addition
Hain Celestial Out of Compliance with Nasdaq Rules Over Delayed Report
GBP/USD at 4-Week High on Contrasting Economic Data
Lew, the G-20 and Postcrisis Rules
Calpine to Sell Minnesota Power Plant
Nestlé Strikes Deal to Acquire Phagenesis
U.S. Productivity Drop Revised to Steeper Rate
U.S. Wage Shock
Vera Bradley Lowers Guidance as Sales Still Struggle
Recliner Maker to Hire 600, Invest $20 Million in Mississippi
FXCM, Leucadia Amend Terms of Rescue Package
Genesco Cuts Outlook
German Banks Told They Must Reconsider Free-Service Model
Costco Logs Disappointing Sales
EU Approves Italian Telecoms Merger
U.S. Jobless Claims Rise Slightly
Private-Equity Firms Plan Share Sale for Nordic Payments Processor
Burne’s Take: Swift, Citing Fresh Attacks, Talks Tough on Security
Gage’s Take: Midwest Aims to Rival Silicon Valley for Venture-Capital Dollars
Phone Carrier Billing Startup Boku Raises $13.75M Series E
Dating App Once Grabs $5.5M
Pixar Veterans Raise $5M for VR Startup Steel Wool Studios
Lands’ End Swings to a Loss as Comparable Sales Fall
Dropbox Says 68 Million Usernames and Passwords Stolen in 2012 Hack
British Manufacturers Shrug Off Brexit
Buell’s Take: Weak Inflation Data Put ECB in Spotlight
Andreessen Horowitz’s Returns Trail Venture-Capital Elite
Anil Kashyap Appointed to BOE’s Financial Policy Committee
British Airways Flights to Iran Set to Resume
Burne’s Take: Swift, Citing Fresh Attacks, Talks Tough on Security
Turkey’s Central Bank Eyes Residents’ Gold
China: PBOC Injected $53.6 Billion Into Financial System in August
Former Bundesbank Chief Warns Rates Will Stay Low
Russia May Cut Key Rate as Inflationary Expectations Ease
China’s Yuan More Stable Than Many Reserve Currencies: PBOC Vice Governor
EpiPen Maker Mylan Tied Pay to Aggressive Profit Targets
Asian Shares Weaken as Eyes Turn to U.S. Jobs Report
Pernod Ricard Lifts Profit Despite Quarterly Sales Decline
South Korea Economic Data Is a Mixed Bag
Peru CPI Increases Slightly in August
China Manufacturing Index Returns to Expansion Land
Blacks Lag in Business Ownership, but Gap Is Narrowing
Fitzgerald’s Take: What’s Lenny Dykstra’s Next Chapter?
Fitzgerald’s Take: What’s Lenny Dykstra’s Next Chapter?
Market direction: Neutral