Date: 2017-12-05 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 266.31, high: 266.8, low: 264.08, close: 264.14, volume: 94040600, daily change: -0.0012
News headlines:
Economy Slows as Corporate Australia Parties but Consumers Stay Home
Oil Futures Maintain Post-API Decline
Regulators Wary of Woodbridge Group Turnaround Effort
Stop Waiving Regulations and Change Them
Mortgage Defaults Follow Income Drops
BOJ’s Masai Stresses Need to Watch Impacts of Easing
HNA Unit Scraps Share Sale
Toys ‘R’ Us Wins Approval to Pay Bankruptcy Bonuses
Senate Tax Revisions Mostly Favorable to Venture-Capital Firms
U.S. Judge Chastises Aurelius in Oi Bankruptcy Battle
SEC Aims to Advance Nominees for Audit Regulator
JPMorgan, BofA Say Trading Revenue to Fall
Investors Score Big on Trump-Related Trade in South Korea
Takata Gets Court OK on Bankruptcy Support Pact
Senate Panel Advances Bipartisan Plan for Eased Bank Oversight
Anaplan Raises $60 Million at $1.4 Billion Valuation
Oil Ticks Higher on Output Concerns
Randles’s Take: How the WWE is Putting Pressure on Harvey Weinstein’s Former Studio
Auditor Calls Foul on Consumer Bureau’s Auto-Lending Guidance
Randles’s Take: How the WWE is Putting Pressure on Harvey Weinstein’s Former Studio
NYSE’s Owner Resists Rushing Into Bitcoin
Stocks Drop Despite Bounce in Tech Shares
Dollar Strengthens Ahead of U.S. Employment Report
Charlie Ergen Steps Down as Dish CEO to Focus on Wireless Business
Easing U.S. Financial Conditions Put Investors on Alert
Trump’s Economic Revolution Is All About Investment
UPS, Overwhelmed by Online Orders, Warns of Delivery Delays
Greece’s Dangerous Budget Surplus
Duke Energy Says Some Customers May Be Affected by Data Breach
Macroeconomic Policy and the Aftermath of Financial Crises
Japan Airlines Invests in Fledgling Supersonic Aircraft Company
Quick Hits: Turkey’s Central Bank to Maintain Price Stability Objective in 2018
Westinghouse Formulates Chapter 11 Exit Plan
Ponderosa Energy Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Copper Has Worst Day in Nearly 3 Years Amid Rising Inventories
Bitcoin Price Mania: A BTC ATM Experiment
Transcript: WSJ Interview With Bank of Mexico Gov. Alejandro Díaz de León
Nestlé to Buy Atrium Innovations for $2.3 Billion
Judge Criticizes Short Bid Timeline for  Drilling-Services Firm Montco Offshore
AmEx, J.P. Morgan Will Keep Sharing Marriott’s Credit Card
Georgia Power Settles with Westinghouse
U.S. Service Sector Remains Strong
U.S. and EU Ink Deal on Derivatives Trading
Export Growth Stalled in October, Potentially Dragging Down GDP
Dollar Strengthens on Tax-Reform Optimism
What Fed Officials Have Said Ahead of Their December Meeting
Facebook’s Messenger Platform Stopped Briefly For Some Users
Bank of Canada Set to Hold Steady Again on Rates
Wyndham’s European Vacation Rental Sale Could Get Bids of Over $1 Billion
New CFPB Chief Curbs Data Collection | SEC Targets Initial Coin Offering ‘Scam’ | Rubin’s Take: The (Bitcoin) Future Is Now
Zions Accidentally Releases Unverified Company Data
Chernova’s Take: Weeks Pass Without a SoftBank Deal, Oh My!
Rubin’s Take: The (Bitcoin) Future Is Now
Robotic-Pill Maker Rani Therapeutics Backed by Shire
Cinemark Theaters Jumps Into the Subscription Business
New CFPB Chief Curbs Data Collection | SEC Targets Initial Coin Offering ‘Scam’ | Rubin’s Take: The (Bitcoin) Future Is Now
Torry’s Take: Beware the “Debt Trap”
Optimal Quantitative Easing
The Effectiveness of Macroprudential Measures
Global Earnings Hit a Record High, Giving Market Rally Momentum
BOJ’s Kuroda Says Weak Yen Has Both a Positive and Negative Impact
Mastercard Unveils New $4 Billion Share-Repurchase Plan
Rizzo’s Take: Nike Unsecured Claim Gets Better Footing in Shiekh Shoes Bankruptcy
Rizzo’s Take: Nike Unsecured Claim Gets Better Footing in Shiekh Shoes Bankruptcy
Under Armour Taps Bergman to Be CFO
Market direction: Neutral