Date: 2017-09-26 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 249.15, high: 249.55, low: 248.08, close: 248.93, volume: 57064400, daily change: -0.002
News headlines:
China Industrial-Profit Growth Accelerates
U.S. to Slap Big Tariff on New Jetliner From Canada’s Bombardier
Asia Stocks Largely Quiet; Ex-Div Hampers Nikkei
Oil Futures Rebound as API Data Show Drop in U.S. Inventory
U.S. Challenges Parker Hannifin’s Acquisition of Clarcor
SEC Hack Should Raise Flags for Other Agencies
How Flood-Risk Beliefs Affect Coastal Housing Markets
Puerto Rico Faces Restart on Financial Plan After Maria
Westinghouse Says Vogtle Nuclear Plant Owners Are Angling for Oversized Recovery
Whistleblower Lawsuit Accuses 21st Century Oncology in Kickback Scheme
SEC Accuses Analyst of Trading on His Reports
FDA Pilot Project Aims at Quick Approvals for Medical Software
Market Talk: Daily Analysis Roundup
Dollar Rises as Concerns About German Elections Linger
How a Starbucks Veteran Took the Helm at Kohl’s
ProsperWorks Gets $53 Million for Google-Based CRM
Syngenta Seeks to Settle GMO Corn Cases
South Carolina State Police Open Probe Into Nuclear Project
U.S. Stocks Stabilize After Selloff
Oil Prices Retreat After Entering Bull Market
DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy
French Biotech Startup Eligo Bioscience Collects $18 Million Series A
Metals At Lowest Levels In Weeks
Puerto Rico Port Reopens but Relief Distribution Slow
Equifax CEO Smith to Exit Following Big Data Breach
Transcript: Audience Q&A With Fed’s Janet Yellen in Cleveland
Housing Market Tilts Toward Sellers as Inventory Shrinks
Lawsuit Calls for NYC Taxi King to Return $12 Million Borrowed From Companies
Yellen Defends Fed Rate-Rise Plan Despite ‘Mystery’ of Low Inflation
Carnival Weathers Impacts From Hurricanes Despite Port Closures
Bank of America Venture Trims 10% of Staff as Part of Digital Push
Equifax Says Departing CEO Won’t Get $5.2 Million in Severance Pay
Fed’s Brainard Warns Economic Inequality Could Hurt U.S. Growth
Atlanta Fed’s Bostic Says He Is Comfortable With Idea of December Rate Rise
Some Puerto Rico Hotels Could Emerge Stronger After Storms
EU Opens Investigation Into Essilor-Luxottica Merger
Transcript: Q&A With Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic
Lawmakers Criticize SEC Head Over Handling of Hack
Nestlé Cedes Ground to Loeb but Won’t Budge on L’Oreal
Equifax Security Showed Signs of Trouble Months Before Hack
Consumer Confidence Fell Only Slightly After Hurricanes
Axovant Says Alzheimer’s Drug Failed in Trials
Richmond Fed Says Manufacturing Growth Improves in September
Legendary Deal Maker Greenhill’s New Assignment: His Own Struggling Firm
U.S. New-Home Sales Declined in August
The World Can’t Stop Borrowing Dollars
Boeing Recruits Insurers to Fill Financing Gap
VoxEU Column Studies China’s ‘Commodities-for-Manufactures’ Trade Boom
ECB Brings Forward Stress Tests for Greek Banks
Should Unconventional Monetary Policies Become Conventional?
WSJ Dollar Index Rises
FBI, SEC Look Into Country’s Largest ‘Green’ Lender
Virtual Reality Installations to Start Arriving at AMC Theaters Next Year
Meet the Man Behind the FDA’s Nicotine Fix
SEC Chief Criticizes Agency on Hack | More Boards Oversee Political Spending | Ackerman’s Take: Clayton in Senate Hot Seat
Ackerman’s Take: Clayton in Senate Hot Seat
Europe’s Banks Finally Start Thinking About Mergers
Chernova’s Take: Could the Other Meal-Kit Startups Make It?
Recruiting Specialist Jobcase Gets $7 Million Series A
Indigo Plows $156 Million Into Sustainable Agriculture
SEC Chief Criticizes Agency on Hack | More Boards Oversee Political Spending | Ackerman’s Take: Clayton in Senate Hot Seat
Torry’s Take: For a Challenging Read, Try ‘Low Inflation: The Mystery’
Low Interest Rates and Fear
Productivity Gains and Falling Inflation
India, Indonesia Bonds: The Latest Emerging-Market Darlings
Biswas’s Take: Buyout of Formerly Bankrupt Calpine Raises Eyebrows Among Distressed-Debt Investors
Activist Investor Marathon Slams Restaurant Deal
For the First Time in Years, U.S. Rises in Global Business Ranking
Why Your Orange Juice Might Be From Brazil: Florida’s Trees Are Dying
More Company Boards Add Oversight of Political Spending
Market direction: Neutral