Date: 2018-06-19 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 275.49, high: 276.7, low: 274.95, close: 276.56, volume: 52917600, daily change: -0.0021
News headlines:
AT&T in Talks to Acquire AppNexus for About $1.6 Billion
Oracle’s Latest Investor Surprise: A New Revenue Reporting System
FedEx Reports Higher Profit as Express Business Rebounds
Conservative Group Will Push for Carbon Tax, a Contrast to GOP Resistance
Icahn Wins Majority on SandRidge Board
Trade Dispute Batters Global Markets
What Trade War? Skeptical Investors Convinced It’s a Negotiation
GE Drops Out of the Dow After More Than a Century
Fox TV Producers Issue Rare Public Criticism of Fox News Commentary
Sarepta Gets Boost From Early Trial Results on Muscular Dystrophy Treatment
Dollar Rises as Threat of Trade War Intensifies
Escalating Trade Threats Slam Global Shares
Transcript: Media Q&A With Atlanta Fed’s Raphael Bostic in Savannah
Disney Names Directors of ‘Up’ and ‘Frozen’ to Head Animation Units
Randles’s Take: Actors Defend Contracts in Weinstein Co. Bankruptcy
Oil Falls as U.S.-China Dispute Threatens Trade
Bank of America to Pay $42 Million to Settle SEC Electronic-Trading Charges
Randles’s Take: Actors Defend Contracts in Weinstein Co. Bankruptcy
Consumer-Finance Enforcement Requires Coordination
Iran Oil Minister Doesn’t Expect OPEC Deal on Production Increase
Cryptocurrencies Are a ‘Poor Substitute’ for Money
Risk of Yuan Devaluation Rises With Latest Tariffs Threat
Ligado Struggles to Break Wireless Impasse
Industrial Metals Slide on Reignited Trade Fears
Don’t Fight the Fed’s Balance Sheet Taper
Lehman Brothers Claimants Mull Cashing Out
Quick Hits: Riksbank’s Negative Rate Policy Could Backfire, SEB Says
Judge Approves Sale Timeline for Elements Behavioral Health
Billion-Dollar Cybersecurity Startup Cylance Raises $120 Million
Trade Tensions Pinch U.S. Yield Curve
Jailed Audi CEO Steps Aside While He Tries to Clear His Name
New Bank Regulator Sets ‘Open Door’ Policy on Rule Changes
American Airlines’ Subsidiary Cancels Thousands of Flights
Mulvaney Likely to Remain Head of Consumer Bureau for Some Time
Soybean Prices Hit Lowest Point in Two Years
U.S. Housing Starts Rebound in May
How the Fed Rate Rise and Other Central Banks’ Policies Have Left Markets Jittery
U.K. Clears Path for Fox to Partake in Bidding War for Sky
VoxEU Post Studies Rise of the Dollar and Fall of the Euro in Global Asset Trade
CrowdStrike Raises $200 Million
McKinsey Investments Weren’t Disclosed in Bankruptcy Cases
Want to Invest in Lithium and Cobalt? Good Prices Are Hard to Find
Draghi Says ECB Could Restart Bond Buying-Program If Required
Global Under-Supply of Oil in Coming Years, Dallas Fed Says
Veritas Capital-Backed Verscend to Acquire Cotiviti for About $4.16 Billion
GameStop in Talks About Potential Deal
Roche to Pay $2.4 Billion for Full Control of Foundation Medicine
Oil Industry Tries to Take the Fracking Boom Global
Bullard: Successful Inflation-Fighting Measures By Central Banks Have Flattened Phillips Curve
CVS Adds Home Delivery With Help From Post Office
More Crypto Deals Come With a Twist—Equity
Chernova’s Take: Post-IPO Sale Decisions Loom
Morgan Stanley Leads $20 Million Round in Video Software Startup Vbrick
Draper Associates Backs Lab-Grown Seafood Startup
Mars’s Pet Fund Leads Round in Fintech for Veterinarians Startup
PulseQA Raises Seed for Crowdsourced Market Research
Founders Fund Leads Round for Organs-on-Chips Startup
Michaels’s Take: SEC Has Ticking To-Do List
Supreme Court to Hear Securities-Fraud Case | GOP Staffer to Be Tapped for OFR | Michaels’s Take: SEC Has Ticking To-Do List
Chinese Stocks Approach Bear Market as Fears Over Trade Rattle Investors
KKR Explores Sale of $3.5 Billion European Telecom Operator
Peek Travel Raises $23 Million to Book Tours and Outdoor Adventures
Want to Rent Out Your Car? You Might Be Regulated
Tariffs Start to Ripple Their Way Through U.S. Economy
Timiraos’s Take: Powell’s Regular Press Conferences Could Mute the ‘Cacophony’
PBOC: Credit Growth Is Reasonable, Default Risks Manageable
Trade Fears Send Shiver Through Asian Markets
RBA Appears Comfortable With Not Following the Fed
EzCater Raises $100 Million for Catering
Market direction: Neutral