Date: 2015-08-04 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 210.46, high: 210.53, low: 208.65, close: 209.79, volume: 113965700, daily change: -0.0034
News headlines:
Investor Group Challenges Access to Companies’ Boards
China Clamps Down on Short Selling
Kellogg Profit Falls, as Currency Dents Sales
Baldor Will Expand New York City Operations
Plains All American Pipeline Posts Lower Revenue
Need a $3 Million Home Loan? J.P. Morgan Just Made It Easier
China’s Response to Stock Rout Exposes Disarray
Sunrun Prices IPO at $14 a Share
Soros’s Investment Chief to Depart
Are Bond Markets and the Fed on Same Page?
IMF Details Hurdles to Yuan Reserve-Currency Bid
News of Murder Charges Sends AAC Holdings Shares Down
Ailing Travelers CEO Fishman to Exit
Neiman Marcus Files for IPO
McDonald’s Names Two Directors With Health-Care Ties
DreamWorks Animation Loss Widens
Stocks Fall on Rate-Move Comments
New Rule to Lift Veil on Tax Breaks
Nabors Swings to Loss
Zillow Revenue More than Doubles
Caesars Entertainment Swings to Profit
Asian Morning Briefing: U.S. Stocks Fall on Rate-Move Comments
Dairy Prices Fall to 13-Year Low
Investors Check Into Hotel Sector
U.S. Oil Inventories Expected to Decline
First Solar’s Profit Surges
Obama Fed Pick Plans Unpaid Leave From Michigan Job
Oil Prices Rise But Hold Near Multimonth Lows
Devon Energy Earnings Beat Expectations
Farmland Investments Take Root
Community Health Spinoff to Focus on Smaller Markets
Potbelly Profit Rises 22%
DreamWorks Animation Loss More Than Doubles
Cerner Profit Falls on Costs
A Hard Lesson on Building in Chile
Oil Companies Struggle to Live With $50 Crude
Dollar Rises Against Euro, Yen
Judge Reinstates ATM Antitrust Case Against Visa, MasterCard
China Brokerage IPOs Likely to Face Cooler Climate
Barrick Earnings: What to Watch
SEC Set to Approve CEO Pay-Gap Disclosure Rule
U.S. Auto Leasing on Track to Return to 1999 Levels
Natural Gas Prices Rise as Weather Warms
Judge Rejects Proposed Settlement Between AmEx and Merchants
Chesapeake Energy’s Moody Shareholders
Archer Daniels Midland’s Earnings Fall
Aetna Lifts Guidance as Profit Tops Expectations
ConocoPhillips to Book $400 Million Charge
Copper Downturn Chills Chile Real Estate
Coach Sales Fall Again
Mallinckrodt Profit Surges as Acquisitions Drive Sales
Judge to Weigh Caesars Appeal at End of September
Freddie Mac to Send $3.9 Billion to Treasury Department
FNB to Acquire Metro Bancorp
Charter Revenue Rises
U.K. Fraud Office Plans More Libor Charges
Pfizer-Hospira Merger Gets EU Green Light
Earnings Hit European Shares
Mosaic Earnings Rise on Phosphate Sales
Some Investors Bid High on Phoenix Office Market
KBR Swings to Second-Quarter Profit
CVS Health Gives Soft Outlook
Fed Survey Finds Pickup in Demand for Loans
Dollar Dips on Reservations about Upcoming Data
Bloomin’ Brands Earnings Helped By Outback Sales Growth
MGM Profit Falls on Continued Macau Hit
R.R. Donnelley to Break Up Business
Hyatt Hotels Results Miss Expectations
Office Depot Sees Sales Slide 10%
Scripps Networks Profit Rises 26%
Crédit Agricole Shares Sink as  Restructuring Plan Hits Hurdle
BMW Profit Falls Amid Fierce Competition
Emerson Electric Profit Drops 23%
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Profit Doubles
China’s Aluminum Producers Stare Down Price Plunge
Global Inflation Remains Stubbornly Low
Real Estate Firms Forced to Change in Chile
China Shares Rise as Officials Curb Short Selling
U.K. Sells 5.4% Stake in RBS
Origin Energy Pares Assets After Big Gas Bet
RBI Leaves Interest Rate Unchanged
Australia Shares Pare Gains After RBA Outcome
Sempra Energy Profit Rises 9.6%
Market direction: Neutral