Date: 2016-05-24 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 205.51, high: 205.84, low: 204.99, close: 205.21, volume: 58682600, daily change: -0.0014
News headlines:
Swiss Bank Is Charged Over 1MDB Dealings
China Shares Up, Tracking US Rally, But Weaker Yuan Caps Gains
U.S. Oil Prices Highest in More Than Seven Months
Online Lender Prosper Raises Rates for Riskier Borrowers
Coca-Cola Makes Management Changes
Sweeping Rule Marks First Update to Chemical Safety in 40 Years
Ryan Howard’s New Startup Is iBeat
Solicitor General Tells Supreme Court Not to Hear Interest-Rate Case
Terror Attacks, Air Crashes Weaken Appetite for European Travel
Pentagon Cautious on Reusable Rocket Boosters
Chevron CEO: Climate Change Could Help Business
Will Fannie and Freddie Need Another Bailout?
Bank of America Tipster Gets to Keep His Reward
Senate Votes to Block New Fiduciary Rule, but Reversal Unlikely to Stick
Rising Dollar Shakes Up Markets
Union and Activists Step Up Attack on Wall Street and Big Banks
Lawmakers Ask Watchdog to Probe If Regulators ‘Harming’ Financial Innovation
House Lawmakers Turn Up Heat on FDIC Over Cybersecurity
SEC Reviewed Valeant’s Use of ‘Non-GAAP’ Financial Measures
Verizon CEO: Strike May Hit Results
Roundup of Form D Regulatory Filings--May 24
Russia Taps Global Credit Markets
Liquidators Win Approval to Sell Sports Authority Inventory
Most Power-Capacity Prices Fall in PJM Auction
Intuit Profit Jumps
Domino’s Pizza Helped Cheat Workers Out of Pay, Suit Claims
Gilead Names New Operating Chief
Asian Morning Briefing: S&P 500 Logs Biggest Gain in Two Months
Auto, Mortgage Delinquencies Rise in Energy Regions
Pattern Receives $2.5M for Software for Salespeople
Goldman Plans to Take Stakes in Private-Equity Firms
S&P 500 Logs Biggest Gain in Two Months
Smaller, Simpler Banks Won’t End Risk
Dollar Holds Gains Amid Positive Data, Hawkish Fed Commentary
Analysts Forecast 2.5M-Barrel Fall in Oil Inventories
Head of Office of Financial Research Sees Warning Signals on Corporate Credit Risk
CFTC Closes U.S. Banks’ Loophole on Swaps
The False Promise of Negative Interest Rates
Toyota and Uber Reach Investment, Lease Partnership
The Fed, the Markets and Expectation Management
Apixio Raises $19.3M for Health-Care Cognitive Computing
U.S. Government ‘Actively Engaged’ in Drafting Plan to Collect Treasurys Data
Wells Fargo Lowers Profitability Targets
Rio Tinto Appoints New Head of Technology and Innovation
De Beers Rough Diamond Sales Ebb
Natural Gas Falls on Weather Outlook
Oil Prices Rise as Supply Concerns Persist
Regulators Call for Consolidation of European Banks to Boost Profits
Fed Sells $200 Million of Treasurys in Operational Test
Four Fed Banks Wanted Discount Rate Increase in April, Minutes Show
Funding Snapshot: Wealth Management Technology Startup SigFig Raises $40M in Equity and Debt
IHeartMedia Wins Legal Fight With Lenders
Funding Snapshot: Stent Maker BrightWater Medical Raises $5.2M Series A
Funding Snapshot: Energy-Grid Software Developer AutoGrid Raises $20M Series C-2
Armajaro CEO Harry Morley Departs
Bank of Canada Expected to Hold Key Rate, Sound More Cautious Tone
Funding Snapshot: STEM Education Startup Accelerate Learning Raises $10M Series A
Machine-Learning Radiology Startup Zebra Medical Vision Raises $12M
Funding Snapshot: Mexican Lending Platform Konfio Raises $8M
Funding Snapshot: Education-Messaging App Bloomz Raises $2.3M
Turkish Central Bank Embraces Pro-Growth Stance
Chinese Province Aims to Lead Big Data Charge
Lyft Will Let People Schedule Rides 24 Hours in Advance
U.S. New-Home Sales Rise at Fastest Pace in Eight Years
Volkswagen Invests $300M in Car-Hailing Startup Gett
Business Cycle Changes and Low-Income Developing Countries
Property Debt Mounts Up in U.K.
IMF Urges France to Expand Labor Reform
‘Hustle’ Case Underscores Issues with Justice Department Strategy on Banks
Best Buy Issues Soft Profit Outlook
Startup Employees Invoke Obscure Law to Open Up Books
Fed Rate Rise ‘Would Be Good News for Global Economy’
Richmond Fed Index Fell to -1 in May
Hungarian Central Bank Cuts Rates
J.M. Smucker Cuts Coffee Prices
U.S. Retail Sales Rose 2.6% in Third Week of May, Redbook Reports
Nant Health Seeks $82 Million in IPO
Swiss Start Criminal Proceedings Against BSI Over 1MDB
Barington Capital Starts a Proxy Fight at Retailer Chico’s
ECB Warns Against Rise of Populism
Canada’s Banks Continue to Face Oil-Price Fallout
Coca-Cola Enterprises Shareholders Approve Merger
TransDigm to Acquire Data Device Corp. for $1 Billion
Valspar Misses Expectations; Paint Volumes Slide
Dollar Strengthens Against the Euro and Yen
DSW Posts Smaller Profit, Slashes Outlook
Chain-Store Sales Rise in Latest Week
Kansas City Southern Expects Rough 2016 for Rail Industry
Say What? Kudos for Sitting ‘Within Punching Distance’ in a Tough Market
We’ve Not Taken Sides on ‘Brexit’, Says BOE Governor Carney
AutoZone Earnings Rise but Fall Short of Estimates
ConAgra CFO John Gehring to Retire
OPEC’s Ability to Ease an Oil Supply Shock is Fading
YotaScale Emerges to Tackle Cloud Complexity
Hiring Platform Entelo Grabs $12M
Email Threat Detector Agari Spears $22M
‘Micro VC’ Goes From Flood to a Trickle
Fiat Chrysler Finds New Boss for Alfa Romeo, Maserati
Schlesinger’s Take: Feds Suffer Another Postcrisis Legal Setback
Toll Brothers Results Beat Forecasts
Kirkland’s Misses Views
Self-Driving Car Startup nuTonomy Raises $16M in Funding
Molekule Raises $3.25M in Seed Funding for Home Air Purifiers
U.K. Region Approves First Fracking Permit Since 2011
Schlesinger’s Take: Feds Suffer Another Postcrisis Legal Setback
Hilsenrath’s Take: Fed Risks Overweighting Most Recent Data
Helicopter money: The Illusion of a Free Lunch
VArmour Networks Secures $41M
SEB Shares Soar on WMF Deal
Airbus Tackles Its Procrastination Problem
Asia Shares Slip on Dropping Commodities Prices, Fed Uncertainty
Australian Miners Have Sweet Spot in Beef
Old Mutual Receives Approaches for OM Asset Management
Germany GDP Growth Accelerated in  First Quarter
Australian Central Bank Chief Rules Out Changing Inflation Target
Market direction: Rise