Date: 2017-12-19 00:00:00
S&P 500 (SPY) — open: 268.1, high: 268.6, low: 267.98, close: 268.2, volume: 83653600, daily change: 0.0063
News headlines:
Bitcoin Swings as Alternative Is Added to Exchange
Potential Loser in Tax Overhaul: Executive Stock Options
What the Tax Bill Does to Homeowners
What the Tax Plan Means for Doctors, Lawyers and Professional Service Firms
How Families Will Benefit—at Least for Now—Under Tax Plan
Tax Package Presents Mixed Bag For Retirement Savers
Greenlight Raising $10 Million Series A to Provide Debit Cards to Kids
Cobalt International Energy Reaches Deal for Angolan Assets
Woodbridge Group Bankruptcy Sparks Fight Over Creditors’ Committee
Co-Living Startup Common Raises $40 Million
Toys ‘R’ Us Earnings Hurt by Baby, Learning Categories
Stitch Fix Experiences Growing Pains
FedEx Raises Forecast, Says Tax Changes May Help Even More
Biswas’s Take: Lenders Give Blackhawk Mining a Break After Earnings Jump
Big U.S. Banks Get Satisfactory Grades on ‘Living Wills’
Riders in Alphabet’s Driverless Car Will Be Insured by a Startup
House Passes Bill to Revamp Criteria for ‘Systemically Important’ Banks
What the Tax Bill Means for Pass-Through Business Owners​
Oil Gains as Pipeline Outage Continues
Toys ‘R’ Us Creditors Move Forward With Debt Investigation
Which Digital Currency Will Be the Next Bitcoin?
Jack in the Box Selling Qdoba to Apollo for $305 Million
Court Allows Suit Against Stock Exchanges to Proceed
Norway Paper Company Norske Skog Files for Bankruptcy
Oilfield Servicer Expro Files for Bankruptcy
Nebraska Refuses to Amend Keystone XL Application
The Benefits of Fedcoin
Retailer Sports Zone Files for Bankruptcy After Nike Halts Shipments
Gold Prices Inch Lower Ahead of Tax-Bill Vote
Wood Pellet Maker Rentech Files for Bankruptcy
Seadrill Seeks Protection From Rival Restructuring Plans
Merrill Lynch Fined $1.4 Million Over Margin Credit, Other Violations
FDA Blesses Blindness Treatment That Could Cost $1 Million
Quick Hits: Sweden’s Riksbank Could Signal Small Rate Rise in Mid-2018
Singapore’s Central Bank Warns About Investing in Cryptocurrencies
Lemonade’s Valuation Jumps to $600 Million in SoftBank Deal
Who Created Today’s Strong Economy? Janet Yellen
CSX’s New CEO Climbs Aboard a Turnaround in Motion
Can Macroprudential Measures Make Cross-Border Lending More Resilient?
Tenet Healthcare Explores Sale of Conifer, Expands Cost-Cutting
BHP Threatens Exit from Coal Lobby, Chamber of Commerce
Crown Holdings Buying Packaging Maker From Carlyle For $3.91 Billion
China’s Feihe International to Buy Vitamin World for $28 Million
Humana, Private-Equity Firms Agree to Buy Kindred Healthcare
Puerto Rico’s Agenda Stalls in Tax Reform Push
U.S. Housing Starts Grew In November
Forget Phones. BlackBerry Is Pushing Software for Driverless Cars
Atlanta Airport Blackout Exposes a Flaw in Backup Power Systems
Cryptocurrency Exchange Collapses, Files for Bankruptcy After Hack
Too Much Caffeine? Coffee Shops Face a Shakeout
NEA Leads Funding for Disaster-Response Startup
Chernova’s Take: VCs Bet on Real Estate, Not Tax Changes
Anodot’s Machine Learning Helps Companies Predict Problems
ECB’s Weidmann Pushes for Faster End to QE
Tracy’s Take: CFPB Role Extends to FDIC
SEC Nominees Freed | The Next Bitcoin? | Tracy’s Take: CFPB Role Extends to FDIC
China Wants Raters to Keep Quiet on Money-Market Fund Sizes
SEC Nominees Freed | The Next Bitcoin? | Tracy’s Take: CFPB Role Extends to FDIC
Blackstone’s Take: Small Central Banks Could Deliver Some Surprises in 2018
Eurozone Wage Growth Slows in Blow to ECB Hopes
BOJ’s Kuroda Will Need to Mind His P’s and Q’s
Singapore Bars Executives, Citing Violation of 1MDB-Related Regulations
Fintech Startups Seek to Shake Up Money-Transfer Industry
Amid Tax Plan, Is Now Time to Sell Home?
Randles’s Take: Dynamic International Airways Hopes to Depart Chapter 11 in Early 2018
Market direction: Neutral