Date: 2017-10-19 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 255.9, high: 255.95, low: 255.5, close: 255.72, volume: 40888300, daily change: 0.001
News headlines:
Trick or Treat? Italian Candy Maker Comes Knocking on U.S. Door
CrowdStrike Raises $25 Million in Additional Funding
Tech Execs Support Basic Income
Wal-Mart Courts Lord & Taylor for Online Challenge to Amazon
PayPal Posts Stronger-Than-Expected Results on Mobile Growth
Cancer Device Company Lumicell Adds $14 Million to Series C
United’s Shares Drop Amid Doubts Over Strategy
Venture Capitalists Seed Y Combinator Graduate Spinal Singularity
SEC Approves Chicago Stock Exchange’s ‘Speed Bump’
Romano’s Macaroni Grill to Explore Sale Under Bankruptcy Protection
Former Dean Foods Chairman Gets 2 Years for Insider Trading
GOP Divided Over Monetary Policy as Fed Chief Pick Looms
Aerosoles Lines Up $25 Million Financing in Bankruptcy
Wal-Mart de Mexico Profit Beats Expectations
Chile’s Central Bank Keeps Benchmark Interest Rate Unchanged
Market Talk: Daily Analysis Roundup
Canceling Puerto Rico Debt ‘Impractical,’ Baupost’s Klarman Says
Dow Edges Higher, Recovering from Triple-Digit Intraday Decline
Dollar Falls as Investors Seek Safer Assets
Chevron Temporarily Suspending Operations in Iraqi Kurdistan
Auditor’s Decision Deals Blow to U.S. Crackdown on Leveraged Loans
Rizzo’s Take: Vanity Shop Prepares for Auction of Brand Name
Oil Settles Down
Labor Department Should Rethink Its Fiduciary-Rule Analysis
Blackstone’s Profit Rises
Gold Prices Rise as Dollar Weakens
Quick Hits: OECD Economist Warns About Easy-Money Policies
Couple in Bank of America Mortgage Dispute Plans to Donate Settlement Money
FDA Chief: Menthol, Tobacco Flavors Could Do ‘Both Harm and Good’
GST AutoLeather Puts Its Assets Up for Auction
Weak Publicis Results Ricochet Around Ad Industry
Target Expands Store Makeovers
Treasury Official: Remarks on Size of Clearinghouses ‘May Have Been Misinterpreted’
Travelers Earnings Fall After Active Hurricane Season
Verizon Continues to Win Wireless Subscribers
BP Chairman to Retire
Leading Economic Indicators Index Falls in September
Don’t Rely on U.S. Consumers to Power Global Growth
What Explains Shareholder Payouts by Large Banks?
Priceline, Tencent Join Investors Pumping $4 Billion Into Chinese Lifestyle Site
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Issues 2018 Outlook
Last ‘SIFI’ Weighs How to Shake Label
How Financially Literate Are You Really? Let’s Find Out
U.K. Regulator Asks Banks to Probe Links With Gupta Family
Bank Indonesia Holds Benchmark Interest Rate
First Data Mistakenly Announces Acquisition Plan for BluePay
Unilever, Nestlé Test Investor Patience With Slower Sales
Philadelphia Fed Report Shows Uptick in Manufacturing Outlook
Ferrero Looks to Ferrara to Sweeten Its U.S. Product Mix
U.S. Jobless Claims Fall to 44-Year Low
SEC’s New Markets Chief | Fight Over Coin Offering | Tracy’s Take: Last ‘SIFI’ Weighs How to Shake Label
Activist Investor Elliott Zeros In on BHP CEO
Davis’s Take: Fundraising Picks Up Between the Coasts
Fundraising Picks Up Between the Coasts
Mya, With New Funding, Automates Recruiting
LSE Chief Rolet to Leave Next Year
Tracy’s Take: Last ‘SIFI’ Weighs How to Shake Label
Hedge Fund Maverick Capital Debuts 0% Performance Fees
SEC’s New Markets Chief | Fight Over Coin Offering | Tracy’s Take: Last ‘SIFI’ Weighs How to Shake Label
Torry’s Take: Mamma Mia! Broadway Is Beige Book Star
Central Bankers Have Doubts About New Tools
Companies Leave Bean Counting to the Robots
Beneath the Market Rally: A Lot Less Trading
Nestlé Results Highlight Pressure to Boost Returns
China to Allow Foreign Banks to Increase Holdings in Domestic Lenders
Australia Works to Get Unemployment Down to Four-Year Low
Bank of Korea Keeps Base Rate Unchanged
Coin Offering Raises $232 Million, Then a Fight Broke Out
Transcript: WSJ Interview With Philadelphia Fed’s Patrick Harker
Stech’s Take: Federal Agency Grants Relief to Hurricane Victims Who Need Bankruptcy
Market direction: Rise