Date: 2018-05-23 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 273.96, high: 274.25, low: 272.24, close: 272.61, volume: 52966400, daily change: -0.0028
News headlines:
Elements Behavioral Health Files for Bankruptcy Protection
BOJ Won’t Try to Hit 2% Inflation Target ‘Recklessly,’ Sakurai Says
Oil Futures Reverse Some of Their U.S. Rebound in Asia
GE Chief Gives Cautious Outlook for Power Business
U.S. Dollar Rises as Europe, Emerging Markets Raise Concerns
Sarbanes-Oxley Is Ripe for a Rewrite
Smaller Businesses Prefer Smaller Banks
U.S. Profit Boom Leaves Europe Inc. Playing Catch-Up
Ackman Takes Roughly $1 Billion Stake in Lowe’s
UPS Doesn’t Want to Ship Your Fridge With Your Socks
U.S. Stocks Rise After Fed Minutes
Fed Sets May 30 Vote on Proposed Volcker Rule Changes
Firm Retention Summary: Gibson Brands Inc.
Kroger Buys Meal-Kit Company Home Chef in Latest Online Acquisition
JPMorgan, Citi Lobby GOP Lawmakers to Relax Swap Rules
Regulator Presses for Revival of Small, Short-Term Loans
Univision Says $10.7 Million Left on Weinstein Co. Ad-Buy Deals
Oil Mixed on Possible OPEC Production Increase
Harvey Gulf Wins Court OK to Exit Bankruptcy
Turkish Lira Recovers After Central Bank Lifts Key Rate
Abraaj, Already Under Scrutiny, Tapped Another Client Fund to Finance Itself
Higher Dollar Weighs Down Copper
Turkey’s Central Bank Lifts Key Rate Amid Lira’s Fall
Fed Minutes Signal June Rate Increase
Market Players Envision Stock Exchange Powered by Blockchain
Paddy Power Betfair to Merge U.S. Operations With FanDuel
Exxon Pledges to Cut Methane Emissions 15% by 2020
ABC’s Bruce Rosenblum to Exit Disney Amid Restructuring
Judge Approves Sale Timeline for Gun Distributor AcuSport
Quick Hits: Turkish Lira Fall Hurting Emerging-Market Investment
New Home Sales Post Weak Spring Start
Why Thomas Edison Would Not Be Happy About GE’s Latest Deal
Brickley’s Take: Eagan Avenatti Law Firm Ordered to Pay $10 Million to Former Partners
Marble Arch Hedge Fund Shuts Down
How Emerging Markets Are Paying the Price of Skittish Bond Investors
Target Sales Get Lift From Remodels but Spending Squeezes Margins
Bank of Finland Paper Assesses Credit Risk of Chinese Households
Eurozone Business Activity Continues to Slow for Fourth Straight Month
Deutsche Bank Considers Plans for 10,000 Job Cuts
Trayvon Martin’s Parents Say Weinstein’s Company Owes Them $150,000
With Tony Fadell’s Backing, Superpedestrian Aims to Make Every Bike Electric
Zinsli’s Take: The IPO Market’s Quiet Powerhouses
Clozel’s Take: Fintech Firm Sued Over ‘Rent-a-Tribe’ Business Model
Medtech Startup Gets $10 Million for  Local Chemo Treatments
Dollar Gains on Rival Currencies Except Yen
How Congress Rolled Back Bank Rules in Rare Deal | Bitcoin, Small Banks’ New Money Maker | Clozel’s Take: Fintech Firm Faces ‘Rent-a-Tribe’ Lawsuit
Fed Minutes to Offer Clues on Where Rates Are Headed
Timiraos’s Take: Two Questions Frame the Fed’s Policy Debate for the Second Half of 2018
Taxpayers Are on the Hook in Banks’ Financial Engineering
How Bad Can Things Get for Italian Markets?
Riksbank: Household Debt Is Making the Swedish Financial System Vulnerable
RBA: Too Early to Tell If China Will Avoid Debt Crisis
Selling Builds for a 2nd Day in Asian Stocks
China’s Reduction of Auto Import Tariffs Steers Asia Stocks Lower
Stech’s Take: Education Department Urged to Ease Student Loan Rules
Fed Officials to Make Slight Change to Rate-Setting Mechanism
Market direction: Neutral