Date: 2017-10-30 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 256.47, high: 257.89, low: 255.63, close: 257.71, volume: 85562500, daily change: 0.0082
News headlines:
Oil Prices Slightly Down in Asia After Hitting 8-Month High
Japan Industrial Output, Household Spending Fall in September
Rent-A-Center to Explore Options
SoftBank to Drop Effort to Merge Sprint, T-Mobile
J.C. Penney Shares Plummet on Bleak Outlook
Mondelez Reports Sales Increase
Judge Says He’ll Approve La Paloma Chapter 11 Plan
After Stingy Second Quarter, Investors Reward Companies for Earnings
The Volcker Rule Can Be Fixed
Market Talk: Daily Analysis Roundup
How Mutual Funds Invest in ‘Unicorns’
Lennar, CalAtlantic Strike Deal to Create Largest U.S. Home Builder
Sofinnova Partners Leads $14.3 Million Series A for Medtech Startup HighLife
Day Trader Profited from Hacked Brokerage Accounts, SEC Says
Diamond Distributor Exelco Looks to Sell its Business
Oil Prices Close at Eight-Month High
Dollar Lower Ahead of Fed Meeting
U.S. Stocks Slide to Start a Busy Week
GE’s Numbers Game: Pick From Four Earnings Figures
Morgan Stanley to Exit Accord on Broker Recruiting
Inflation Remains Below Fed’s Target as Officials Meet to Set Policy
FCC Clears CenturyLink-Level 3 Combination
Judge Sets Nov. 15 Bid Deadline for Paramount Building’s Operations
Quick Hits: U.S. GDP Trackers See 2.9% 4th-Quarter Growth
Gold Inches Higher to Kick Off Action-Packed Week
LyondellBasell Makes Takeover Approach to Braskem
Voices: To Invest Like a Pro, Heed Lessons of Institutional Investors
The Perils of a Trumped Fed
Contingent Convertibles: Can the Market Handle Them?
IMF Paper Studies Effects of Public Investment in Developing Economies
The Trump Deregulatory Juggernaut Is Rolling
Texas Manufacturing Activity Highest Since 2014
Americans Are Spending More, Saving Less
Struggling HSH Nordbank Gets Bids From Three U.S. Private-Equity Funds
Viewpoint: Polsinelli/TrollerBK Distress Indices Show Health Care Distress Vaults Higher; General and Real Estate Distress With Slight Increases
Eurozone Businesses, Consumers Undeterred by Political Uncertainty
Puerto Rico’s Debt Victims Aren’t All Vulture Funds
Euro Edges Higher
Trump Likely to Tap Powell for Fed Chief | States Press Equifax on Hack Disclosure | Michaels’s Take: New Attack on SEC’s Enforcement Arsenal
Novartis to Pay $3.9 Billion for Radio-Pharmaceuticals Firm
EasyJet to Buy Assets From Air Berlin
China’s Push to Lower Debt Levels Boosts Results at Big Banks
Puerto Rico Governor Cancels $300 Million Power Contract
HNA Unit Pays Up to Borrow $300 Million
Vistra Energy, Dynegy to Merge
Health-Care Mega Rounds, Once Rare, Grow More Common
Zakrzewski’s Take: Decision Time for VCs on Harassment
Derby’s Take: Fed Officials Make Sense Of Easing Financial Conditions
Kymera Grabs Series A to Tap Into Disease Proteins
HSBC Swings to Profit as Pivot to Asia Pays Off
Michaels’s Take: New Attack on SEC’s Enforcement Arsenal
Trump Likely to Tap Powell for Fed Chief | States Press Equifax on Hack Disclosure | Michaels’s Take: New Attack on SEC’s Enforcement Arsenal
ECB’s Smets: ‘Dangerous’ if People Are Used to Low Inflation
Akzo Nobel, Axalta Confirm Merger Talks
Activist Investors Demand Board Seats, Changes at Clariant
Party’s Over? Chinese Markets Battered After Bout of Artificial Calm
Singapore Seeks to Double Down on Wealth Management, Forex Trading
Netflix to End ‘House of Cards’ Amid Kevin Spacey Allegations
Brickley’s Take: NextEra Wants 20% of Oncor: Why?
Market direction: Neutral