Date: 2015-08-19 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 210.26, high: 210.68, low: 209.7, close: 209.98, volume: 71692700, daily change: -0.0029
News headlines:
A New Incarnation for NYC’s Old Verizon Building
PBOC Conducts Biggest Cash Injection Since Mid-February
Bank of Korea Questions Inflation-Targeting System
Illinois Corn Crop Forecast 14% Lower Than 2014 Harvest
Target Lifts Earnings Outlook
Origin Energy Swings to Loss on Impairments
Canadian Oil-Sands Producers Struggle
Analysts: Likelihood of U.S. Oil at $30 Increasing
Oil Drops to Six-Year Lows
Fed’s Kocherlakota: Low Natural Rates May Stymie Policy
Bad Bets Sock Mining Giant
Time to End Quarterly Reports, Law Firm Says
Short Answer: Who’s Buying Luxury Goods?
Divided Fed Puts Yellen on Hot Seat
U.S. Consumer Prices Rise for Sixth Straight Month
The Italian Plan and European Political Expediency
Analysts See 60 Billion-Cubic Feet Add to U.S. Natural-Gas Inventories
Higher Reserves Are a Less Painful Way to Fix the Banks
With Funding, Lender Social Finance Has Nation’s Biggest Banks in Its Sights
Coca-Cola Buys Minority Stake in Suja Life
Organized Labor Moves Into Digital Media as Investors Circle
Asian Morning Briefing: U.S. Stocks Slide
Natural Gas Holds on Balanced Market
Popeyes Raises Guidance on Strong Results
Ex-Subway Pitchman to Plead Guilty to Child-Sex Charges
Envestnet Plans to Offer NextShares
L Brands Raises Outlook Again
MF Global Brokerage Creditors Close to Nearly Full Recoveries
SEC Says Felon Defied Ban on Accounting Work
U.S. Stocks Slide
Voices: Tom Mingone, on Transferring Smaller Clients to a Junior Adviser
A Sparse Year for Deals in Southeast Asia
Dollar Tumbles Following Fed Minutes
Staples Executives Say Office Depot Deal Is On Track
Fannie, Freddie Regulator Leaves Affordable-Housing Targets Little Changed
IMF Signals Yuan Won’t Be Reserve Unit for Now
Detroit Sells First Municipal Bonds Since Emerging From Bankruptcy
Nine Key Passages in the Fed’s July Meeting Minutes
Big U.S. Banks to Form Data Company
China Offers a Glimpse of Stock Market Rescue
China Market Volatility Weighs on Global Stocks
Citi Settles SEC Compliance Charges for $15 Million
Turkish Lira Hits New Low Against Dollar
Swarovski Designer Meredith Gratton Adds Sparkle to Her Work
Russia’s Economy Shows no Sign of Recovery
U.S. Crude Stockpiles Unexpectedly Rise
Hormel Foods Raises Profit Outlook
Dollar Gets a Bid Following CPI Report
Cross-Market Trading Spiked in Bond ‘Flash Crash,’ N.Y. Fed Says
American Eagle Outfitters Earnings Soar
Eaton Vance Profit Falls 12% on Higher Costs, Weak Revenue
Change Comes to Zimbabwe, Replacing U.S. Dollars
Fed’s Kocherlakota: Rate Increase Now a ‘Step in the Wrong Direction’
U.K. Activist Group Emerges as Voice for Monetary Reform
China Flips to Gains After Steep Losses Earlier
Principal Financial Promotes Operations Chief to CEO
United Therapeutics Sells Priority-Review Voucher to AbbVie
Iceland Raises Interest Rates, Warns of Further Increases
Lowe’s Profit Misses Views
Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Has Tough Second Quarter
Eurozone Current Account Surplus Rises Sharply in June
Vietnam Devalues the Dong
Oil Slides Along With China Markets, Fed Comments in Focus
China Resumes Slide, Leading Asian Shares Lower
Market direction: Fall