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Business & Finance
hare buybacks have
S
slowed to a five-year
low as companies earmark
more money for capital
spending and mergers. A1
 Uber’s new CEO learned
of a massive data breach at
the company more than two
months before he notified
customers and drivers. A1
 More consumers are using
phones to shop, making the
24-hour period that began
Thursday evening the year’s
biggest for online sales. A1
 The GOP tax plan would
eliminate an exemption for
advanced refunding bonds,
used by governments to re-
finance debt earlier. B1
 Retailers are contending
with a UPS surcharge on de-
liveries during the holiday
season’s busiest weeks. B1
 Rovio shares plunged 22%
after a surprise loss raised
questions about the maker of
the “Angry Birds” game. B1
 Facebook plans to notify
users who liked or followed
pages created by Russians in
an alleged misinformation
campaign last year. B3
 Icahn purchased a 13.5%
stake in SandRidge, joining a
list of shareholders who op-
pose a deal the energy com-
pany struck last week. B3
 European stocks traded
flat after Chinese shares had
their worst day in months.
Stock markets in the U.S. and
Japan were closed. B11
 Tesla is set to power up
a giant wind-powered bat-
tery system in Australia. B4
 Citgo executives arrested
by Venezuela’s intelligence
agency include Americans. B6
World-Wide
 Myanmar and Bangladesh
agreed to begin repatriating
ethnic Rohingya Muslims
who fled a crackdown in Bud-
dhist-majority Myanmar. A6
 Pope Francis, who has ad-
vocated for refugees and out-
reach to Muslims, begins a
visit to Myanmar Monday. A6
 Trump spoke with troops
in Afghanistan, criticized his
predecessor and poked fun
at the media during his first
Thanksgiving in office. A3
 Lebanese Premier Hariri
said he was suspending his
resignation, rolling back a
decision that had sparked
a political crisis. A9
 Argentina said a blast
was detected near a missing
submarine’s last known po-
sition, leaving the crew’s
families grief-stricken. A8
 The Hague tribunal found
Ratko Mladic, a former Bos-
nian Serb general, guilty of
genocide in the 1995 Sre-
brenica massacre. A11
 Republican Rep. Barton
of Texas said Capitol police
have started an investiga-
tion into the release of a
nude photograph of him. A4
 Democrats are wary of a
$20 million ad campaign
funded by a California bil-
lionaire that calls for
Trump’s impeachment. A4
 An Australian report calls
for stronger ties with neigh-
bors, a sign of concern about
U.S. commitment to Asia and
China’s growing sway. A6
 Global night light is get-
ting bigger and brighter, blot-
ting out the stars of the Milky
Way for one-third of human-
kind, a study found. A12
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Business News.. B3,6
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Heard on Street. B12
Life & Arts...... A14-15
Mansion................ M1-8
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Vigilance on Parade as New York’s Thanksgiving Tradition Sails On
Firms Cut
Buybacks
As Stocks
Become
Expensive
BY BEN EISEN
AND CHRIS DIETERICH
Large companies are repur-
chasing their shares at the
slowest pace in five years, as
record U.S. stock indexes and
an expanding economy propel
more money out of flush cor-
porate coffers into capital
spending and mergers.
ANDRES KUDACKI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Companies in the S&P 500
are on pace to spend $500 bil-
lion this year on share buy-
backs, or about $125 billion a
quarter, according to data
from INTL FCStone. That is
the least since 2012 and down
from a quarterly average of
$142 billion between 2014 and
RIDING SHOTGUN: Heavily armed police patrolled the parade route during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York on Thursday. 2016.
Security was greater and more intensive this year following a deadly terrorist truck attack in Manhattan on Halloween. Buybacks have been popu-
lar in recent years, in part be-
cause tepid economic growth
Shoppers Flock to Phones
limited perceived investment
opportunities as well as ex-
pected returns on new plant
and expanded operations.
Adding to their appeal, re-
purchases can make shares
Consumers shun Black Better mobile e-commerce grew 17% to $1.52 billion, while pared with 99 million in stores, more attractive to investors
sites and easy one-click pay- traffic from smartphones in- according to a National Retail by lowering the share count
Friday for the mall in ment options—as well as ear- creased 15% year-over-year. Federation survey. and accordingly increasing
their pockets as retailers lier deals—are making the 24 Consumers last year spent The ease of shopping on earnings per share.
hours that started Thursday 19% more online on Black Fri- phones has helped push that The postcrisis surge in
ease mobile buying evening the biggest online day than on Cyber Monday, ac- trend, prompting consumers buybacks has been frequently
spending period of the year, ac- cording to Salesforce.com Inc.’s who previously just researched cited by stock-market bears as
BY LAURA STEVENS cording to retail experts. The Commerce Cloud, which ana- deals online to actually click a sign that the market’s eight-
period is expected to eclipse lyzes data from 500 million the buy button, said Rob Garf, year-long advance has been
Millions of consumers are Cyber Monday three days away shoppers world-wide across vice president of industry strat- driven more by financial engi-
using their smartphones to and give brick-and-mortar more than 2,750 retail sites. egy and insights at Salesforce, neering than by long-term
shop instead of lining up at stores new competition for Salesforce expects the pattern which works with companies growth.
stores after chowing down on Black Friday. to repeat this year. Over Please see PHONE page A4 Please see STOCKS page A2
turkey this year, accelerating a Software company Adobe Thanksgiving weekend last
fundamental change in retailing Systems Inc. reports that online year, an estimated 109 million  Extra shipping fees pressure  Heard on the Street: Tax cut?
as more people spend online. sales as of 5 p.m. Thursday people shopped online, com- retailers.......................................... B1 Firms are spending anyway... B12
Bond Moves Spark Market Debate
The yield gap between short- and long-term Treasurys has shrunk to
its narrowest level since 2007, when the financial crisis was brewing.
In Shadowy Russia-Ukraine
But analysts are split over what the signal means now. B12
Yield spread between the 10-year and two-year U.S. Treasury
1.5 percentage points
Battle, an Assassin Speaks
A doomed hired gun unburdens himself in a jailhouse interview
2007
1.0
When they arrested Timur Makhauri with had numerous identities over the years—
two unregistered pistols and a bogus pass- and sometimes acted like an assassin to
port in downtown Kiev earlier this year, po- catch the real Kremlin agents performing
lice thought they made a breakthrough in a what, in Russian underworld parlance, was
0.5
2017* string of unsolved contract murders. A known as “wet work.”
In a jailhouse interview with The Wall
By Alan Cullison in Kiev and Street Journal in February, Mr. Makhauri ex-
Thomas Grove in Tbilisi, Georgia panded upon the murky world he inhabited,
politely answering questions about his life
0
judge saw Mr. Makhauri had a dark history for two hours while handcuffed in a hallway.
of allegedly assassinating critics of the He worked as an agent, he said, wherever
Kremlin in Turkey, and ordered him held on there was a fight against Moscow’s influ-
a high bond. ence, including Chechnya, Georgia, Turkey
–0.5 But soon police learned that nothing and Syria. Ukraine, his last place of employ-
about Mr. Makhauri was quite what it ment, would turn out to be more hazardous
Jan. Dec.
seemed. Ukraine’s intelligence service began than he reckoned.
*Year to date
Source: WSJ Market Data Group THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. calling the police to urge his release, inte- Ukraine has become a magnet for hired
rior ministry officials said. Mr. Makhauri, guns as Kiev tries to fight its former master
who was mute at first, explained that he Please see KILLER page A13
Absinthe Was Once Banned INSIDE
For Being Evil—Now It’s Just Meh
i i i
Drink with wicked aura has no green fairy,
just a licorice flavor; ‘my mom might like it’
BY DAVID MARCELIS The resulting ban, which
began in 1912, removed ab-
During its heyday in the sinthe from U.S. shelves, but it
BLUE WATER, THE ONLY NAFTA’S LINK
19th century, absinthe was one wasn’t necessarily bad for its WHITE SAND— RIVALRY THAT TO HOW MUCH
of the world’s most popular li- romantically wicked image. By
quors—a fixture on bar menus the time scientists cleared it
ALL ARTIFICIAL MATTERS YOUR TV COSTS
from Paris to New Orleans and of wrongdoing, allowing it to
a particular favorite among be reinstated in 2007, adven- MANSION, M1 SPORTS, A16 WORLD NEWS, A8
artists. turous drinkers
It was long ru- were eager for a
mored to cause hal- taste.
lucinations: Oscar
Wilde said he once
saw flowers spring
Ten years later,
they have reached a
verdict: meh.
Uber CEO Knew of Hack for Months
up around him at a “It was a tough BY GREG BENSINGER 2016 and affected some 57 mil- ment in the ride-hailing com-
Opinion.............. A17-19 cafe while drinking swallow,” said Sean AND ROBERT MCMILLAN lion accounts—about two pany, according to other people
Sports........................ A16
Streetwise................ B6 it. Some say it even Connors, a 43-year- weeks after he officially took familiar with the matter.
Technology............... B4 influenced Vincent old attorney who While the massive data the helm on Sept. 5, one of the Uber officials, including its
U.S. News............. A2-4 van Gogh’s decision tried absinthe in the breach at Uber Technologies people said. Mr. Khosrowshahi chief security officer, knew at
Weather................... A16
World News..... A6-12
to slice his ear off. Absinthe Czech Republic, one Inc. didn’t happen under the said he immediately ordered an the time of the breach that per-
Absinthe’s de- of the few places it watch of its new chief execu- investigation, which he wanted sonal information had been ac-
tractors (including the wine was still found, before the U.S. tive, he knew of it more than to complete before making the cessed. Uber informed custom-
> industry) vilified the spirit, ban was lifted. He said he or- two months before he notified matter public. ers and drivers on Tuesday.
and a grisly family murder in dered the drink hoping he affected customers and drivers About three weeks ago, An investigation led by Fire-
Switzerland that was blamed would hallucinate. He didn’t. of the incident, people familiar though, Uber disclosed the in- Eye Inc.’s Mandiant forensics
on absinthe sealed its fate. A “I was just left with a licorice- with the matter said. vestigation and the broad out- arm was under way at the time
top U.S. official called the tasting liquor,” he said. “My CEO Dara Khosrowshahi lines of the breach to SoftBank of the disclosure to SoftBank.
herbal liquor “one of the worst mom might like it.” learned of the breach—which Group Corp., which is consider- Uber had to conduct multiple
enemies of man.” Please see DRINK page A13 Uber said happened in October ing a multibillion-dollar invest- Please see UBER page A8
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CAPITAL ACCOUNT | By Greg Ip
No Need for Radiologists to Be Negative on AI
This month,
a team of com-
puter scien-
tists at Stan-
ford University
said their arti-
ficial-intelligence program had
diagnosed pneumonia on
chest X-rays more accurately
than human radiologists.
“Should radiologists be
worried about their jobs?”
one of the scientists, Andrew
Ng, tweeted.
Probably not. In fact, they
ought to be relieved: AI is
more likely to make their jobs
easier than redundant.
Radiologists today face the
same problem of most profes-
sionals: too much data. Ma-
chine learning, the latest iter-
ation of AI, can sift through
that data and spot patterns
humans might miss. But ma-
chines don’t know what to do
with that information—at
least not yet. Only humans do.
In recent decades, the vol-
ume of medical images has
skyrocketed, reflecting grow-
ing patient loads, more types
of scans and the number of
images each exam produces.
CT scans that once captured
one dimension of the body
Bye-Bye Buybacks
Share repurchases, long a Wall Street
favorite for their capacity to boost
earnings per share, have tailed off
this year with stock indexes at
records, as companies show a
renewed inclination to invest and
to seek mergers.
A measure of expected CapEx over the next six months was recently at a three-decade high.
Future Capital Expenditures Diffusion Index†
$40 billion
30
20
10
0 equivalent of 26.2% of GDP in
–10
–20
2009 ’10
Shareholder returns as a portion of sales this economic cycle have
been high, while capital expenditures have been low.
Buybacks and dividends as a share of sales**
Capex as a share of sales**
8%
6
4 Michigan State University
2 multiple charges of sexual as-
0 0
1996 2000 ’05
*Preliminary †Through Oct. 31 **Excludes financial and commodity-sensitive sectors
Sources: INTL FCStone (buybacks); Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (diffusion index); Morgan Stanley Wealth Management GIC via FactSet (share of sales); FactSet (S&P 500, PowerShares)
STOCKS
Continued from Page One
But this year, companies
have pulled back from buy-
backs, reflecting in part an
uptick in the global economy,
rising consumer and investor
sentiment and expectations
that a rally that has taken the
Dow industrials up 19% this
year cannot continue indefi-
nitely.
“Persistently high business
sentiment since the election
of [U.S. President Donald]
Trump has convinced corpo-
rate chieftains that cash can
be put to better use than re-
tiring stocks,” said Vincent
Deluard, INTL FCStone’s head
of global macro strategy.
Capital expenditures by
U.S. companies have been
muted for most of the postcri-
sis recovery.
But a Federal Reserve Bank
of Philadelphia index that
forecasts such spending for
manufacturing companies
over the next six months
climbed to its highest level in
more than 30 years over the
summer.
Buyback activity among
top-rated nonfinancial debt
issuers, many of which have
regularly borrowed money to
finance share repurchases, de-
clined for the third straight
quarter in the July-to-Sep-
tember period, according to
Bank of America Merrill
can now capture all three,
generating hundreds or even
thousands of detailed images.
S
ome 800 million radiol-
ogy exams are con-
ducted annually in the
U.S. generating roughly 60
billion images, or one every
two seconds for every radiolo-
gist, estimates Steve Tolle,
vice president of global strat-
egy at International Business
Machines Corp.’s Watson
Health Imaging. “And we have
an expectation they are get-
ting it right every time,” he
says.
The strain of all that data,
he says, is why some images
in Britain go weeks without
being read, why many radiolo-
gists are burned out, and why
radiologist shortages loom de-
spite high pay.
IBM thinks AI can relieve
those strains. It is one of
many companies developing
AI applications for medical
imaging. IBM scientists feed a
computer with thousands of
images for which humans
have already determined if tu-
mors or some other condition
are present. The computer
generates a model that can
The pace of buybacks among S&P 500 companies is expected to have slowed this year.
Average quarterly buybacks by year
$160 billion
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
2009
’11 ’12
RECESSION
’10 ’15
Lynch. Meanwhile, mergers
and acquisitions among that
group of companies had their
biggest quarter of the year,
analysts at the bank said.
Software giant Microsoft
Corp., which enacted a $40
billion buyback program in
September 2016, repurchased
$2.6 billion in the July-to-
September period, down from
$4.4 billion in the same pe-
riod a year earlier.
The Redmond, Wash., com-
pany’s chief financial officer,
Amy Hood, said on a confer-
ence call earlier this year
that, “After a period of accel-
$2.6
Amount of stock, in billions,
Microsoft bought in latest quarter.
erated buyback, we’ve re-
sumed a buyback pace consis-
tent with our historical
trends.”
Alphabet Inc., parent of
Google, didn’t repurchase any
of its shares last quarter. The
Mountain View, Calif., com-
pany had bought back $2.7
billion through September,
down by about a quarter from
the same period a year earlier,
according to company filings.
A slowing pace of buybacks
hasn’t hindered stock prices
much, with major indexes
U.S. NEWS
analyze new images to try to
figure out whether tumors are
present.
In one experiment, IBM
Watson diagnosed the pres-
ence of melanoma on images
of skin lesions with 76% accu-
racy, higher than the 71% av-
erage of eight dermatologists.
The company hopes that some
day a doctor or nurse will be
able to take a photo of a skin
lesion and upload it to an AI
application that can tell you
how likely it is to be cancer.
Since AI learns from pat-
terns identified by humans, it
can’t know more than hu-
mans, but it can be more con-
sistent and less biased in ap-
plying that knowledge.
Radiologists tend to look
for things they have seen re-
cently, says John Park of Anne
Arundel Medical Center in An-
napolis, Md., who is working
with IBM Watson. By con-
trast, he says, once AI has
seen something, it never for-
gets, and brings that knowl-
edge to bear on every image.
This could be of particular
value in poor countries with
too few trained radiologists.
But AI can only assert
probability, not certainty, of
’10 ’11 ’12 ’13
’13 ’14 ’15
Shares of companies that repurchase their shares have
started to trail the S&P 500.
15%
10
5 pleaded guilty Wednesday to
2017
climbing to scores of fresh re-
cords this year.
Corporations are still ma-
jor buyers of their own shares
and are expected to remain so
next year. Analysts at Gold-
man Sachs Group Inc. forecast
a 3% uptick in buybacks to
$510 billion in 2018.
One wild card for future
buybacks is the tax-overhaul
legislation being negotiated
on Capitol Hill.
Multinational companies
have parked over $1 trillion in
profit earned overseas to
avoid paying the 35% U.S. cor-
porate tax rate. The House tax
bill approved this month
would impose a reduced one-
time tax rate on such offshore
cash, an incentive to bring
money back home.
It is not clear to what de-
gree companies would use re-
patriated cash to fund capital
expenditures and acquisitions,
buy back shares or raise divi-
dends.
The decline in buybacks
this year, and an uptick in
spending on investment and
dividends, is prompting some
analysts to predict that a tax-
law change in this cycle could
play out differently than it did
in 2004, when much of the
money that companies
brought back from overseas
was funneled directly into
share repurchases.
Factors including high
stock price, historically high
share valuations and uncer-
tainty over the future shape
what an image shows. It “may
point out to me things I may
have missed, but then I have
to ascertain whether that
reading is accurate or not,”
says Jaime Murillo of Sentara
Healthcare, which serves Vir-
ginia and North Carolina.
This is what limits AI
wherever it is applied. Face-
book, like radiology, struggles
with too much information.
’14 ’15 ’16 ’17*
’16 ’17
S&P 500
PowerShares Buyback
Achievers ETF
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
of the tax code mean that
“companies may be less likely
to favor buybacks over other
uses of cash in 2018,” analysts
at Goldman Sachs said in a re-
port this week.
But other changes in the
economy, markets and the
regulatory environment could
increase repurchase activity
next year. The largest U.S. fi-
nancial firms are becoming
free to return more cash to
shareholders.
After the financial crisis,
regulations required the Fed-
eral Reserve to sign off on
banks’ capital plans.
The improving health of fi-
nancial firms should clear the
way for more bank buybacks
in the years ahead, analysts
say.
There are some signs that
investors are no longer as
drawn to companies that buy
back shares in large quanti-
ties.
The PowerShares BuyBack
Achievers Portfolio, a $1.3 bil-
lion exchange-traded fund
tracking companies that have
decreased share counts over
the past year, has had more
than $200 million in outflows
since the end of last year, ac-
cording to data provider XTF.
To be sure, many compa-
nies are still returning piles of
cash to investors. Dividend
payments by S&P 500 compa-
nies are poised to set a sixth
consecutive record in 2017,
according to S&P Dow Jones
Indices.
* *** THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
Facebook hopes that some Then, notes Dr. Dreyer, the
day AI will be able to police Food and Drug Administration
for objectionable content. must approve the system and
But determining what’s ob- doctors then integrate it into
jectionable requires a Face- their practices.
book member to report some- While some commercial AI
thing to the “community applications for medical imag-
operations” team, which then ing exist, IBM Watson has yet
decides whether it should be to release any; a spokes-
removed. Thereafter, AI woman says proposed appli-
watches for similar content cations for breast and skin
and prevents it from being cancer will depend on regula-
shared. Facebook is hiring tory timelines.
thousands of humans to make
T
those calls. he panic over AI steal-
In “many of the everyday ing jobs is reminiscent
AI applications, the machine of the worry nearly two
predicts the most relevant op- decades ago over offshoring
tions and sorts them, but the of jobs of all types. Some
human makes the actual economists predicted interna-
choice,” says Avi Goldfarb, an tional broadband connections
economist specializing in AI meant much of the reading of
at the University of Toronto. medical images would be out-
An algorithm can be sourced to radiologists in In-
trained to look for a specific dia earning a fraction of
condition, but “most of the American salaries. It never
time you don’t even know happened.
what you are looking for,” U.S. regulators didn’t want
says Keith Dreyer, chief data unregulated doctors reading
science officer for the Ameri- American patients’ images,
can College of Radiology. and the requisite skills and
Maximum accuracy re- experience were too scarce in
quires that the algorithm be emerging markets. The num-
trained separately for every ber of U.S. radiologists has
condition and disease, a costly thus risen more than 40%
and labor-intensive process. since 1995.
U.S. WATCH
GLOBAL ECONOMY PUERTO RICO
U.S. Is an Exception Whitefish Sues Over
To Rising Tax Levels Rebuilding Contract
Taxes are going up around The company hired to rebuild
the world, but the U.S. is buck- Puerto Rico’s power grid has
ing that trend. The Organization filed a lawsuit blaming one of its
for Economic Cooperation and subcontractors for a work stop-
Development on Thursday said page that has slowed progress
the share of economic output on repairing one of the island’s
taken by governments in devel- major electrical arteries.
oped economies as taxes has A Whitefish Energy Holdings
risen to its highest level since LLC spokesman said Wednesday
records began 50 years ago. it had “no choice but to seek re-
But in the U.S., taxes as a lief in the courts” after the sub-
share of gross domestic product contractor, Arc American Inc., al-
fell in 2016 to below the level legedly snarled payments from
recorded in 2007, the year be- Puerto Rico’s public power com-
fore the financial crisis hit and pany under a contentious $300
briefly reduced tax revenues for million grid construction deal.
governments around the world. Arc American executives
According to the OECD, the didn’t respond to a request for
U.S. government raised the comment.
—Andrew Scurria
taxes last year, placing it 31st
out of the group’s 35 members. NAVY
—Paul Hannon
Three Missing After
GYMNASTICS Aircraft Crashes
Olympic Ex-Doctor The U.S. Navy said it has
Pleads Guilty ended search-and-rescue opera-
tions for three missing sailors,
A former sports doctor ac- after one of its cargo planes
cused of molesting at least 125 crashed near Japan.
girls and young women while he A C2-A Greyhound aircraft
worked for USA Gymnastics and carrying 11 passengers and crew
from Japan crashed on Wednes-
day en route to the aircraft car-
rier USS Ronald Reagan, which
sault. is operating in the Philippine
Larry Nassar, 54, admitted to Sea.
digitally penetrating seven girls, Eight people were rescued
mostly under the guise of treat- and are in good health, the Navy
ment, between 1998 and 2015. said.
—Associated Press —Alastair Gale
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decades. Wednesday about sexual-ha-
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Marchers in Hollywood this month protested sexual assault and harassment after a series of high-profile cases.

Sex Claims Face Hurdles

Federal law imposes quirement makes sense, as it
tight deadline, high Defense Lawyers Relaxing the law, they say, ensures employees “give em-
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might encourage workers to ployers an opportunity to in-
burden of proof; trial Back Current Law run to federal court over griev- vestigate” and possibly fix a
ances that have little to do problem, said Anthony Oncidi,
victories are rare with discrimination. an employment defense lawyer
Statistics show that the Plaintiffs’ lawyers say the at Proskauer Rose LLP.
BY SARA RANDAZZO deck is stacked against people bar is set too high. Employees But some plaintiffs’ lawyers
making sexual harassment using the federal law face tight say the requirement fails to
The number of inquiries claims, plaintiffs’ lawyers say. statutes of limitations, em- address that victims fear retal-
hitting California attorney Legal analytics company ployer-friendly court precedent iation or may not know the of-
John Winer’s office each week Lex Machina found that while and high burdens of proof re- ficial channel to report bad
has risen sharply since the more than 75% of employment quired to show harassment behavior.
Harvey Weinstein scandal cases settle, almost always un- was severe or pervasive. Some Morgan Cramer was a 17-
broke. der nonpublic terms, when the states and cities offer broader year-old high-school student
Women who endured un- courts do reach a determina- legal protections for employees when she started working
wanted touching at work, gay tion on sex or gender discrimi- than the federal law. part-time shifts at a Bojangles
men harassed by co-workers, nation under the Title VII of Coming forward is often restaurant outside Atlanta in
and others who say they were the Civil Rights Act of 1964, personally challenging and pro- 2010.
terminated for reporting inap- they favor defendants more fessionally risky, plaintiffs’ law- When a co-worker made
propriate behavior have all than 95% of the time. yers say, resulting in many graphic, lewd remarks to her
asked him to consider taking Title VII broadly covers people missing the time frame. several times, she told the
their cases. workplace discrimination based Defense lawyers argue the branch manager he was saying
But because of hurdles in on race, color, religion, sex and statutes of limitations ensure nasty things, according to her
the laws meant to protect national origin. employers still have access to Title VII lawsuit.
workers from harassment, Defense lawyers say the evidence and witnesses needed After the co-worker forced
many of the inbound calls low win rate for plaintiffs re- to complete investigations and her against a wall and forcibly
won’t become lawsuits. “We’re flects that many meritorious don’t have the threat of liabil- tried to touch and kiss her, she
getting a lot of cases we just claims settle before reaching a ity hanging over them for quit. That incident led to his
can’t bring,” Mr. Winer said. judge or jury. years after alleged misconduct. termination less than a month
To some potential clients who later, court filings show.
say they are finally ready to In 2012, a judge found she
have their day in court, “I rassment cases, plaintiffs have tiffs looking to bring work- didn’t bring her complaint
have to tell them their day is either 180 or 300 days from place discrimination claims through the right channels—
passed.” the most recent incident, de- under federal laws. The agency the handbook called for her to
In recent weeks, many ac- pending on the state, to file a saw a fourfold increase in visi- tell higher-up managers—and
cusing powerful figures of sex- claim under Title VII. tors to the sexual-harassment that she wasn’t specific
ual impropriety have done so Those facing discrimination section of its website the week enough when she did tell her
through the press and social or harassment at work can after the Weinstein news came local manager.
media. But increasingly, those “fear retaliation, loss of pro- out. “I was crushed,” said Ms.
with complaints of workplace motion potential...physical or In court, employers can de- Cramer, now 25, of the court’s
harassment are looking for emotional abuse,” said Chris- feat Title VII claims by show- decision. “I thought, nobody
help through the courts, tine Saah Nazer, a spokes- ing they have an internal was taking me seriously. They
prompting calls for changes to woman at the Equal Employ- mechanism in place to report were calling me a liar.”
Title VII of the federal Civil ment Opportunity harassment and that the plain- Bojangles said in court fil-
Rights Act of 1964. Commission, which serves as a tiff didn’t use it. ings it took prompt action
In employment-related ha- mandatory first stop for plain- Defense lawyers say the re- once it learned of the assault.

Trump Gives Thanks to the Military

BY MICHAEL C. BENDER

President Donald Trump

criticized his predecessor,
poked fun at the media and
visited his golf course in South
Florida, putting his own
unique twist on a day of tradi-
tional holiday activities during M Y L A G O S M Y W AY
his first Thanksgiving in office.
Speaking with troops in Af-
ghanistan from his Mar-a-Lago
resort in Palm Beach, Fla., Mr.
Trump told a group of Marines
they were “really winning,”
suggesting that was a change
since he succeeded President
Barack Obama.
In August, Mr. Trump ex-
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panded the U.S. role in Af-

ghanistan, a reversal from his
previously stated preference
to pull out of the country.
“We’re being talked about
again as an armed forces,” Mr.
Trump told Marines with the
Marine Special Operations, 2nd
Marine Raider Battalion during
the teleconference. “We’re re- Mr. Trump spoke with troops via video conference from his Mar-a-Lago resort on Thanksgiving.
ally winning. We know how to
win. But we have to let you ress you’ve made in the last few mark line from “The Appren- saving 16,000 lives after Hurri-
win. They weren’t letting you months since I opened it up.” tice,” his reality TV show, tell- cane Harvey hit Texas.
win before.” “We’re not fighting any- ing reporters, “You’re fired.” “You know, the Coast
Visiting with troops on more to just walk around, On a call with the U.S. Guard, always respected, but if
Thanksgiving has become a we’re fighting to win,” Mr. Coast Guard near Kuwait, Mr. you were looking at it as a
holiday custom for sitting Trump said. Trump expressed thanks for brand, there’s no brand that
presidents. Another classic ac- With club members sitting their “incredible work in the went up more than the Coast
tivity: releasing the menu for outside Mr. Trump’s office en- Arabian Gulf,” and relayed Guard, with what happened in
the president’s dinner. The joying the warm weather, the news of positive economic in- Texas,” Mr. Trump said.
fare for Mr. Trump and his president regretfully informed dicators, one of his favorite The president also told the
family included turkey, stuff- the troops that reporters were talking points in recent weeks. Coast Guard about the stock-
ing, mashed potatoes and in the room with him. “I know it’s hard to be away market gains and his adminis-
gravy, sweet potatoes with “Surrounding me is a lot of from home at this time of the tration’s moves to cut back on
marshmallows, a variety of press—better me than you, be- year,” Mr. Trump said. “We’re regulations before passing out
baked goods, local produce lieve me fellas,” he said, add- doing well at home. The econ- sandwiches, shaking hands C AV I A R C O L L E C T I O N S
and cheeses, red snapper and ing that he was thankful for omy is doing really great.” and marveling at the physique
Florida stone crab. “the blessing of freedom, he- After the calls, Mr. Trump of the troops. AVA I L AB LE AT L A G O S . C O M
In the morning, Mr. Trump roes, tremendous courage.” and his wife, Melania, visited Mr. Trump then spent the
said on a call with the 82nd Later, before wishing the with about 50 Coast Guard afternoon at Trump Interna- BLOOM I NGDALE’S 59TH ST
Airborne Division that “every- media a happy Thanksgiving, members, crediting their tional Golf Club in West Palm
body’s talking about the prog- Mr. Trump recalled his trade- branch of the military with Beach.
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Birth-Control Battle Divides Notre Dame

BY LOUISE RADNOFSKY
AND IAN LOVETT
The University of Notre
Dame fought in court for five
years to limit the government’s
ability to push religiously affili-
ated employers to offer contra-
ception benefits. Now, the uni-
versity is voluntarily allowing
birth-control benefits, exposing
a divide among Catholic insti-
tutions.
The university’s shift comes
as the litigation enters a fresh
phase after two U.S. Supreme
Court cases and new rules
championed by President Don-
ald Trump’s administration.
These rules, if implemented,
would reverse a requirement
set by Mr. Trump’s Democratic
predecessor that most employ-
ers include birth-control bene-
fits in workers’ health plans.
Democratic attorneys gen-
eral are suing the GOP presi-
dent to block the rules, which
would allow employers with
religious or moral objections to
omit birth-control coverage. On
Tuesday, the Little Sisters of
the Poor, an order of nuns that
runs nursing homes, moved to
intervene in the case in sup-
port of the Trump rules.
Notre Dame drew both
praise and criticism when offi-
cials said this month that the
Indiana university would allow
birth-control coverage to be of-
fered to employees, their fami-
lies and students by its plan
administrator.
The university said it had
pursued its court case primar-
ily to prevent the government from the U.S. Conference of baffle us.” fin, an alumnus of Notre Dame
from forcing it to accept a Catholic Bishops, which led the Sara Ratcliffe, a vice presi- Law School and now a lawyer
compromise designed by then- initial campaign against dent at the advocacy group in Colorado who specializes in
President Barack Obama’s ad- the contraception-coverage re- Catholics for Choice, described religious-liberty issues.
ministration in which contra- quirement and backed the in- Notre Dame as a “cultural Mr. Kniffin said that Notre
ceptive coverage was included stitutions that agreed to sue. icon.” Dame had told the courts that
in their health plan but funded “We rejoiced when Notre “The fact that the Notre providing coverage “would
and administered by a third- Dame united with us in our ex- Dame administration is no lon- cause scandal, as the term is
party company. pression of deep concern that ger being an obstacle to folks defined in Catholic catechism.
Paul Browne, a university the federal government was in- getting access to care and a And now it’s doing it volun-
spokesman, said the university truding on the realm of con- service that 99% of sexually ac- tarily—what are we as alumni
“engaged in the recent lawsuit science. Thank God Notre tive Catholic women use, de- supposed to make of that?”
to protect its freedom to act in Dame was with us,” said Cardi- spite what the bishops feel Michael Galligan-Stierle,
accord with its principles.” nal Timothy Dolan, the arch- about it, that’s great,” she said. who heads the Association of
“Recognizing, however, the bishop of New York, earlier Some alumni said that, be- Catholic Colleges and Universi-
plurality of religious and other this month. yond the legal issues, they ties, an industry group, said
convictions among its employ- Cardinal Dolan added that thought Notre Dame could be that his members had consis-
ees, [the university] doesn’t in- “we cannot understand’’ why seen as misrepresenting Catho- tently been “incredibly diverse
terfere with the provision of the university, having pursued lic teaching. in how we approach the gov-
contraceptives that will be ad- the legal case, is now saying, “With their plan to allow ernment.’’
ministered and funded inde- “‘It wasn’t all that important coverage, they’re doing exactly “We’re always going to have
pendently of the university.” to us, anyway. We’re going to what they said they couldn’t do 30 opinions about 20 topics,”
The move drew criticism allow it, anyway.’ That does in the lawsuit,” said Eric Knif- he said.

Photo of Lawmaker Billionaire Promotes Impeachment

Spurs Investigation BY JULIE BYKOWICZ
AND NATALIE ANDREWS

California billionaire Tom

BY DAVID HARRISON
Rep. Joe Barton (R., Texas)
said Capitol police have
started an investigation into
the release of a nude photo-
graph of him.
“Today, the Capitol Police
reached out to me and offered
to launch an investigation and
I have accepted,” Mr. Barton
said Wednesday. The Capitol
Police didn’t respond to a re-
on social media this week. It is
unclear who posted the images.
In an interview with the Wash-
ington Post, the woman in ques-
tion, who wasn’t named, said
she didn’t post the images.
The Dallas Morning News
reported Wednesday that
posting the photo may violate
a “revenge porn” law enacted
in Texas in 2015 criminalizing
the intentional disclosure of
images showing another per-
Steyer is personally funding a
$20 million advertising cam-
paign calling for the impeach-
ment of President Donald
Trump. The move is causing
anxiety among lawmakers—
within the Democratic Party.
Democratic leaders fear in-
dependent and Republican
voters will view impeachment
talk as Democratic overreach
and undercut the party’s mes-
sage in the midterm elections.
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quest to comment Thursday.
Mr. Barton said he sent the
photo to a woman with whom
he was engaged in a “consen-
sual relationship.”
“When I ended that relation-
ship, she threatened to publicly
share my private photographs
and intimate correspondence in
retaliation,” he said. He called
the release of the photo “a po-
tential crime against me.”
A blurry photo of the politi-
cian and an image of a text mes-
sage of a sexual nature emerged
son’s “intimate parts” or “en-
gaged in sexual conduct” with-
out that person’s consent.
Mr. Barton has apologized
to his constituents.
“While separated from my
second wife, prior to the di-
vorce, I had sexual relation-
ships with other mature adult
women,” he said. “Each was
consensual. Those relationships
have ended. I am sorry I did
not use better judgment during
those days. I am sorry that I let
my constituents down.”
“I’ve been a very harsh critic
of this president....but the im-
peachment message right now
is not helpful to the possibility
of retaking the House,” said
Rep. Jim Himes (D., Conn.),
chairman of the fiscally moder-
ate New Democratic Coalition.
Mr. Steyer says he doesn’t Tom Steyer, shown on Monday in Times Square, made his money as co-founder of a hedge fund.
care. “I understand that there
are people who think that from concludes each with a reference whether Mr. Trump’s firing of Commission reports. His expen-
a tactical political standpoint to a website where people can James Comey as Federal Bu- ditures have been aimed at
it may not be clever,” said Mr. add their names and email ad- reau of Investigation director helping Democrats win elec-
Steyer, a top donor to Demo- dresses to an impeachment pe- obstructed justice. Mr. Mueller tions and raising environmental
cratic political groups. “We’re tition. He also is promoting the and three congressional com- issues, such as defeating the
not trying to be clever.” petition in New York’s Times mittees are looking into U.S. Keystone XL pipeline.

WASHINGTON WIRE
White House spokeswoman Square and on Twitter. intelligence agencies’ findings In that time, Democrats
Sarah Huckabee Sanders re- More than 2.6 million peo- that Russia interfered in the have lost their hold on the
jected Mr. Steyer’s call for im- ple have signed in the month 2016 presidential election and Senate, the White House and
peachment as “a complete since the campaign began, ac- whether Mr. Trump’s presiden- state-level offices across the
ADMINISTRATION NSA waste of money.” cording to a signature counter tial campaign cooperated. Mr. country. The Keystone XL pipe-
“How sad, with all the real on the website. Mr. Steyer says Trump has denied any collu- line is now under construction.
Professor Considered Federal Judge Tosses problems in the world, he his goal is to build support so sion or wrongdoing, and Rus- Mr. Steyer said he is spend-
For Census Position Surveillance Suits can’t find a better way to that lawmakers become more sia has said it didn’t interfere. ing to build a lasting political
spend his money,” she said. aggressive in their approach to Mr. Steyer, who made his operation, which includes two
The Trump administration A federal judge threw out two Mr. Steyer stars in his two Mr. Trump, who he says “has money as co-founder of a hedge super PACs. “If it looks like
plans to pick Thomas Brunell, a long-running lawsuits challenging TV ads, which have run on CNN, obstructed justice at the FBI,’’ fund, has spent more than $170 there is something where I
Texas political science professor, the National Security Agency’s MSNBC and Fox News, in addi- among other actions. million on Democratic politics could actually make a differ-
as the deputy director of the U.S. collection of phone records under tion to local broadcast stations Special Counsel Robert over the past three years, ac- ence, then I would be willing
Census Bureau, according to two a surveillance program that Con- in California and elsewhere. He Mueller is investigating cording to Federal Election to try,” he said.
people familiar with the matter. gress curbed in 2015.
Mr. Brunell, if selected, would The 2013 lawsuits, filed by
fill a role that has historically
been a career civil-service posi-
tion held by someone with sig-
nificant experience in the federal
conservative legal activist Larry
Klayman, alleged the government
violated the Constitution when it
gathered millions of Americans’
PHONE Holiday Shopping on the Move
Online commerce on Thanksgiving has soared in recent years, with mobile purchases
taking an increasing share of the total.
statistical system. The deputy di- phone records to search for pos- Continued from Page One
rector position has been filled by sible ties to terrorists. including L’Oréal SE, Adidas Share of e-commerce Share of e-commerce traffic on mobile, by hour (2016)
a temporary career civil servant U.S. District Judge Richard AG and PetSmart Inc. Mobile traffic on Thanksgiving
65%
since the former deputy director, Leon said this week that the devices have helped “equal the done on mobile
Nancy Potok, left in January. cases had run their course. playing field as technology Peak traffic
—Sarah Chaney —Joe Palazzolo caught up with demand.” 59% 60
More than half of Ama-
zon.com Inc.’s shoppers last 51% Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving used their mo- 55
Black Friday
bile, the company said. 40%
“Honestly, I think there’s a 50 Cyber-Monday
time during Thanksgiving fes-
Light up her tivities where you’re a little
burnt out on too many people, 45
season. too much conversation,“ said
Dorion Carroll, vice president
of mobile shopping at Amazon. 40
People sneak off to do a little
gift shopping. He admits, “I do 35
that.”
So did Rachel Guffey. After 2014 ’15 ’16 12 a.m. 6 noon 6 p.m. 12 a.m.
her Thanksgiving dinner and a Source: Salesforce.com THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
round of family trivia, the 33-
year-old dog treat baker from tifying sales associates of shop- most of her shopping on her limits the need to browse.
Lawrence, Kan., started shop- per preferences, pinging Samsung S7. “It’s infinitely eas- As retailers have improved
ping on her phone “right here customers with deals and using ier for me to check out deals on the mobile shopping experi-
in my pocket” for cheap video- in-store beacon technology to my phone,” she says. ence, payment options have
games and DVDs on Amazon direct shoppers to express The San Diego resident is in also caught up. Apple Pay, Pay-
and Target Corp. checkout lines. This helps se- the market this weekend for Pal, Amazon Pay and other mo-
“It’s just a lot more conve- cure purchases as customers bigger ticket items including a bile payment options have re-
nient,” she says. check prices on their phones. crib mattress and an elliptical moved the need to enter
Horizon Pendant Amazon is the largest bene- “Even if you go to the store, machine, as well as some payment and shipping informa-
with Lapis Inlay and Pavé Diamonds ficiary by far of the boom in you are still shopping on mo- smaller gifts from sites like tion, greasing the process.
in 14K Yellow or White Gold mobile e-commerce starting on bile,” adds Nitin Mangtani, Etsy Inc. and Sephora. It’s a Salesforce this holiday season
Thanksgiving. It has captured founder and chief executive of hassle to pull out the computer, expects as many as 10% of all
from $979 about 42 cents of every dollar mobile commerce platform Pre- but her phone is always there. orders placed on iPhones to use
Chain included spent online this year on aver- dictSpring and former head of That helps explain why on Apple Pay versus almost noth-
Matching Earrings available age, according to market re- Google Shopping. He works Thanksgiving last year, the mo- ing last year when the service
search firm Slice Intelligence, with retailers including Calvin bile share of online browsing was still new.
HAWAII: Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Big Island of Hawaii which tracks a panel of more Klein and Charlotte Russe. peaked at 62% at 6 p.m. in local Brandon Intelligator, a Los
BOSTON: Natick Mall, Northshore Mall than 5 million U.S. shoppers. As more people shop online time zones as shoppers finished Angeles-based attorney, expects
CHICAGO: Woodfield Mall, 600 N. Michigan Avenue Traditional retailers are hop- earlier in the holiday weekend, up their meals, according to to browse deals on his phone
DALLAS: NorthPark Center • DENVER: Cherry Creek Shopping Center ing to get in on some of the ac- stores are adapting. Some Salesforce. Purchases con- this weekend. He downloaded
LAS VEGAS: Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian
NEW YORK: Roosevelt Field • ORLANDO: Disney Springs
tion. Companies including Wal- stores, like outdoor retailer ducted on phones peaked in the Amazon’s app a year ago,
PHILADELPHIA: The Plaza at King of Prussia Mart Stores Inc. and Target are Recreational Equipment Inc., early morning on both Thurs- something that has fundamen-
PLEASANTON: Stoneridge Mall • PORTLAND: Washington Square spending heavily on e-com- are closed for Thanksgiving and day and Friday as shoppers tally changed the way he shops.
ROSEVILLE: Galleria • SAN DIEGO: Fashion Valley merce by improving shipping Black Friday, while others have woke up. “As soon as I downloaded
SAN FRANCISCO: PIER 39 • SAN JOSE: Valley Fair speeds or website infrastruc- cut back on or changed hours. Traditional and e-commerce the app, I was like: ‘I can do
SEATTLE: Bellevue Square • WASHINGTON, D.C.: Tysons Corner Center ture. But they haven’t given up Improved technology is driv- retailers alike are working to this from my phone,’” Mr. Intel-
on foot traffic. Lower prices ing the shift in spending behav- improve shopping by phone, ligator said. He estimates he
and different deals in store—as ior. Employees no longer wait making websites that better fit makes 80% of his purchases on
well as offers to pick up online to get back to the office on the smaller screen size and Amazon, excluding groceries.
orders—are among the tactics Monday for better computers apps that make it easier to see “My credit card information is
brick-and-mortar retailers are and faster internet access. items and purchase them. Many saved in there. My shipping in-
NaHoku.com • 1-866-296-9374 attempting this holiday season. Smartphones suffice. now employ artificial intelli- formation is saved in there. It
FREE FEDEX SHIPPING ON ALL ORDERS OF $200 OR MORE Physical stores are also add- Kat Furtado, a mother of gence technology that makes seems foolish not to do it that
ing mobile perks, including no- two young children, now does better product suggestions and way.”
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WORLD NEWS
Deal Opens Rohingya Return to Myanmar
Bangladesh agreement
Pushed Out
paves way for Muslim There are now more Rohingya in
minority to come back, relief camps in neighboring
Bangladesh than in Myanmar.
but hurdles remain
900,000
BY BEN OTTO Nov. 21
AND MYO MYO 834,000

YANGON, Myanmar—Ban- 600,000

gladesh and Myanmar agreed
to begin repatriating ethnic
Rohingya Muslims who fled a
crackdown in Buddhist-major- 300,000
ity Myanmar, in a process that
could take years to complete
MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

and bar people from returning

to their own homes. 0
More than 620,000 people A M J J A S O N
have crossed the border to Source: International Organization
Bangladesh since the crack- for Migration
down began in August, some THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
providing chilling accounts of
killings and rape by Myanmar tary at the Bangladesh Embassy
military forces after a series of in Yangon. More details are to
militant attacks on govern- be released over the weekend,
ment outposts. an official at the Ministry of
Myanmar has denied such Foreign Affairs in Dhaka said.
accounts, amid international Bangladesh Prime Minister
pressure on the country and Sheikh Hasina has called on
its civilian leader, Aung San Myanmar in recent months to
Suu Kyi, to begin taking back A Rohingya refugee walked with a child through the Balukhali refugee camp in the Bangladeshi district of Ukhia on Thursday. “take their nationals back.”
the refugees, whom it denies She told lawmakers this week
citizenship and regards as ille- global concern over the crisis. idency in Myanmar. That will the process would take years. China also has encouraged that Dhaka is committed to
gal immigrants. The announce- Myanmar said the agreement be difficult for refugees who On Wednesday, U.S. Secre- the two countries to strike a taking steps to send the Roh-
ment of the agreement comes signed on Thursday is based fled with little more than the tary of State Rex Tillerson deal allowing Rohingya to re- ingya back “to their home-
ahead of a visit to both coun- on a 1990s accord between the clothes they were wearing. warned of possible sanctions turn, and has emphasized that land,” local media reported.
tries by Pope Francis, who has two countries that provided Myanmar’s minister of so- against Myanmar and described the international community Myanmar responded to in-
called for the Rohingya to re- for the return of Rohingya ref- cial welfare and resettlement, the Myanmar military’s clear- shouldn’t interfere. ternational pressure in a state-
ceive their “full rights.” ugees after an earlier outbreak Win Myat Aye, said recently ance of Rohingya villages as Bangladesh and Myanmar ment about the repatriation
The repatriation process of violence. That arrangement that the government could ver- “ethnic cleansing,” echoing lan- agreed to begin the repatriation agreement, saying it saw the
will likely move slowly and allowed only for the return of ify as many as 300 potential guage used by the United Na- process by the end of January, situation as an issue to be
may do little to diminish people able to prove their res- returnees a day. At that rate, tions and some governments. said Reyad Hossain, first secre- worked out with Bangladesh.

Pope’s Visit to Test Muslim Outreach Australian Government

Pope Francis has made ad-
vocacy for refugees and out- Small Church
with the military and has
faced international criticism
Seeks Closer Asia Ties
reach to the Muslim world sig- Pope Francis aims to promote reconciliation during his visits to two for her refusal to criticize the BY RACHEL PANNETT “The U.S. has been the
nature themes of his countries where Catholics are a minority. crackdown, in which the mili- dominant power in our region
pontificate. In a visit to Myan- tary has been accused of burn- SYDNEY—Australia should throughout Australia’s post-
Myanmar ing villages and killing and strengthen ties with like- Second World War history. To-
By Francis X. Rocca Buddhist 74.4% raping villagers. Myanmar au- minded neighbors, a new for- day, China is challenging
in Vatican City and Ethnoreligionist 9.8% thorities reject refugee ac- eign-policy blueprint says, America’s position,” the for-
Niharika Mandhana Non-Catholic Christian 6.7% counts of such atrocities. showing just how concerned eign-policy paper says.
in Yangon, Myanmar Muslim 3.8% Next week’s visit, which the U.S. ally is about America’s U.S. President Donald
Hindu 1.7% ends Thursday, will be the first wavering commitment to Asia Trump’s “America First” ap-
mar starting on Monday, those Confucianist 1.5% to the majority-Buddhist coun- proach and decision to with-
and China’s growing sway.
Catholic 1.2%
priorities will put him at odds try by a pope, coming seven The blueprint by Australia’s draw from the 12-nation
Other 0.9%
with his host, Nobel laureate months after the Holy See and Foreign Affairs Department, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Aung San Suu Kyi, and with Bangladesh Myanmar established relations. which was unveiled on Thurs- trade pact has left Asian gov-
some of his own bishops. Muslim 88.8% The pope said in a video issued day by Prime Minister Mal- ernments questioning his com-
A crackdown by the Myan- Hindu 9.4% last week that he intends to colm Turnbull, calls for Can- mitment to the region.
mar military has driven hun- Buddhist 0.7% bring a “message of reconcilia- berra to build stronger Australia should do more to
dreds of thousands of ethnic Ethnoreligionist 0.5% tion, forgiveness and peace.” security and diplomatic ties to encourage the U.S. to remain
Rohingya Muslims into Ban- Catholic 0.3% That applies as well to his Japan, India and other re- engaged in Asia, the report says,
gladesh, in what the U.S. de- Non-Catholic Christian 0.2% subsequent stop, in majority- gional nations. predicting that if it withdraws,
scribed on Wednesday as “eth- Other 0.1% Muslim Bangladesh, where he The document lays out the China will step into the void.
nic cleansing”—a finding Source: Todd M. Johnson and Gina A. Zurlo, eds. World Christian Database will take part in a public inter- stakes for Australia as it “Without sustained U.S. sup-
Myanmar said was made THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. religious event at which he will treads a delicate path: China is port, the effectiveness and lib-
“without any proven facts.” meet a small group of Rohingya. its top trading partner and eral character of the rules-based
Bishops in Myanmar are most senior Catholic cleric. gan its crackdown in response The pope’s advocacy for the largest buyer of Australian order will decline,” the blue-
urging Pope Francis to refrain Even referring to the group to attacks by Rohingya militants Rohingya has enhanced his im- commodities such as iron ore, print says. “Power is likely to
from expressing support for as Rohingya, the cardinal on security outposts, the pope age in the Muslim world and beef and coal, while the U.S. is shift more quickly in the region,
the group during his visit. warned, could weaken the de- lamented what he called the raised international pressure its longstanding diplomatic and it will be more difficult for
Pope Francis “has to be very mocracy movement and pro- persecution of “our brothers the on the government of Myan- partner and security guaran- Australia to achieve the levels of
careful so that we can still voke a backlash by militant Rohingya,” and called for them mar, said Khairudin Aljunied, tor. The blueprint also calls for security and stability we seek.”
communicate with the new Buddhists against the coun- to receive their “full rights.” an expert on Islam in South- a greater focus on Southeast China’s Foreign Ministry
government, with the military, try’s Christian minority. Myanmar doesn’t recognize east Asia at Georgetown Uni- Asia, amid worries that coun- called the document “an objec-
as well as with the people in Pope Francis has been out- the Rohingya as citizens. versity. “Muslims very much tries there aren’t strong tive look at China-Australia re-
general,” said Cardinal Charles spoken about the group’s plight. Ms. Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s ci- appreciate that the pope has enough to fight Islamist ter- lations,” but took exception
Bo of Yangon, the country’s In August, after the military be- vilian leader, shares power spoken up for them,” he said. rorism on their own. with its criticisms.

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WORLD NEWS

Grim Sub News Prompts Anguish Brazil

Curtails
Blast detected near
vessel’s last known
location; families
Pension
assume the worst Overhaul
BY ALBERTO MESSER BY PAULO TREVISANI
AND JEFFREY T. LEWIS
BRASÍLIA—Brazil’s govern-
MAR DEL PLATA, Argen- ment is scaling back a pro-
tina—The distraught families posal to overhaul the coun-
of the 44 crew members try’s insolvent pension system,
aboard Argentina’s missing part of a last-ditch effort to
submarine began mourning get congressional support for
their loved ones Thursday af- the unpopular bill ahead of
ter navy officials revealed that general elections next year.
an explosion was detected Fixing the pension system
near the vessel’s last-known has proved particularly diffi-
EITAN ABRAMOVICH/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

position. cult in Brazil, where corrup-

A Vienna-based organiza- tion scandals and political
tion that verifies nuclear test- stalemate have been the norm
ban compliance reported an for the past few years.
“anomalous, singular, short, President Michel Temer’s
violent nonnuclear event” at administration is urging Con-
10:31 p.m. on Nov. 15 when the gress to overhaul a pension
ARA San Juan was 270 miles system that consumes nearly
off the country’s southern half of the national budget and
coast, said Capt. Enrique is set to have a $56 billion def-
Balbi, a spokesman for the Ar- icit this year.
gentine Navy. Details and data The shortfall saps funds
collected by the specialists that could be used to improve
were provided to Argentina to the country’s infrastructure,
support the search. health and education, officials
Although the navy did not Relatives of the crew of the missing submarine ARA San Juan console each other at the vessel’s home base in Mar del Plata. say.
say the submarine had sunk or Investors worry the coun-
that the crew had been con- ber, told a local radio station. for the San Juan now had the sound was detected. have more concrete evidence try’s growing debt load could
firmed dead, the news left the “No human being can survive what could be key information For many of the families of about where the ARA San spiral out of control if nothing
families, who are being housed that. They’re all dead.” that could lead them to the the crew members, though, Juan submarine and our 44 is done.
at the submarine’s home base Cmdr. Erik Reynolds, a U.S. vessel. “The noise was not news of an explosion conjured crew members are, we will “This is a very slow-motion
here, grief-stricken and crying. Navy spokesman, said that af- consistent with normal marine the worst conclusions. continue the search,” he said. train wreck,” said Robert
“There’s nothing else to be ter several miscues in the activity,” he said, adding that Capt. Balbi said despite the “Until we have more certainty, Abad, founder of the emerging
done,” Luis Tagliapietra, fa- search, aircraft and ships several ships were narrowing news, Argentina would not we can’t conclude what hap- markets advisory firm
ther of Damián, a crew mem- scouring the South Atlantic their search to an area where abandon the search. “Until we pened.” EM+BRACE.

Joined at the Hip: Nafta and Cheap Flat-Screen TVs

BY ROBBIE WHELAN Ending the North American brands. der to distribution centers in
AND SANTIAGO PÉREZ Free Trade Agreement risks Screen Grab A closer look at how TVs Southern California.
shifting more production of The prices of LCD televisions in ...and have pushed aside other are made shows why. Under Nafta, TV manufac-
TIJUANA, Mexico—One of TV components to Asia, North America have dropped in technologies to dominate Nearly all a television’s turers, who employ about
the biggest potential casual- prompting higher prices for recent years... the market. value comes from Asia. The 15,000 workers in Mexico, get
ties of the trade scuffle under U.S. consumers and no new majority—between 60% and to skip import tariffs of 5% un-
way between Mexico and the American jobs, according to Average retail price of LCD TVs Market share of LCDs among 80%, depending on the size—is der World Trade Organization
U.S. is also one of America’s manufacturing executives and in the U.S. and Canada TVs shipped in North America locked in one part alone: the rules—tariffs that apply to al-
favorite consumer products: analysts. 32" HD 40" 1080p glass LCD panel. Only seven most all the TVs assembled
the cheap, high-definition, President Donald Trump 100% companies in the world pro- outside Mexico.
55" 1080p 55" 4K
flat-panel television set. has called Nafta, which en- duce panels large enough for “If Nafta ends, that compet-
Every year, U.S. consumers ables those televisions to en- $6,000 flat-screen sets, and they are itive advantage ends,” said
80
buy more than 40 million flat- ter the U.S. tariff-free, a “total all in China, Japan, Taiwan Sergio Langarica, regional
screen TVs, as many as three- disaster” that has cost the U.S. 4,500 and South Korea. head of Mexico’s electronics
60
quarters of them assembled in millions of jobs, and pledged The only components that industry group Canieti and di-
factories here in Mexico’s elec- to pull out of the deal if it is are produced in North Amer- rector of international trade
tronics-producing hub on the not renegotiated to benefit 3,000 40 ica are typically Mexican-made and compliance for Sony Elec-
border with California. And American workers. A fifth packaging and molded plastic tronics Inc.
every year, prices for flat- round of Nafta talks, this time 1,500 20
or metal casings for the TV’s With no Nafta, the assem-
screens decline as new models in Mexico City, ended on Tues- exterior. Almost all other bly work now done in Mexico
enter the market and retailers day with no major advances. parts, including image- and would shift to other low-cost
outdo one another to offer For some industries, includ- 0 0 audio-processing chips, tran- locations like Vietnam, agrees
deeper discounts. ing auto making, an updated 2005 ’10 ’15 ’17* 2005 ’10 ’15 ’17* sistors, capacitors and even Mr. Lin.
But behind this annual holi- Nafta with tighter rules could *Forecast screws, get their start in facto- If Nafta is killed and tariffs
day tradition is a fragile busi- lead to some job gains in the Source: IHS Markit TV Sets Market Tracker THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. ries in Asia and arrive by con- are imposed, manufacturers
ness model that relies on ra- U.S., economists say. But not tainer ship to the Port of Los will have to absorb those
zor-thin profit margins, for flat-screen TV makers. because U.S. salaries to assem- the price,” said James Lin, Angeles and Long Beach. higher costs because U.S. con-
nimble production networks That is because for decades, ble those components are too chief executive of Unis Co., an Once in the U.S., they are sumers are generally unwilling
and tariff-free trade between most electronic components high to compete with them. importer in the City of Indus- trucked over the border—tariff to pay higher prices for televi-
Mexico—the world’s top pro- have been manufactured ex- “America doesn’t even have try, Calif., that distributes mil- free—to assembly plants in Ti- sions, said Paul Gagnon, direc-
ducer of sets—and the U.S., clusively in China and other the components in place to lions of televisions made by juana, put together, packed tor of TV sets research at con-
the top buyer. low-wage Asian countries, and produce this product at twice Samsung, LG, Vizio and other and trucked back over the bor- sulting firm IHS Markit.

WEST BANK AND GAZA nounced in a statement in Cairo
by 13 Palestinian political fac-
Palestinian Parties tions, including Hamas and Fa-
Agree to Elections tah. It said Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas
Palestinian political parties would ultimately need to sign
agreed to hold presidential and off on elections—the first major
parliamentary elections before contests in the West Bank and
the end of next year, as reconcil- Gaza Strip since 2006 when
iation talks between major fac- Hamas won the most seats in a
tions Hamas and Fatah make parliamentary vote—and set a
slow but steady progress. date for polling.
The elections were an- —Abu Bakr Bashir
WORLD WATCH
PAKISTAN that targets India, had been put
under house detention in Janu-
India Attack Suspect ary, as Pakistan came under in-
Is Given His Liberty ternational pressure to do more
to combat militants operating
A Pakistani court Wednesday from its soil.
lifted the house arrest of Hafiz Three high court judges de-
Saeed, the man accused by India cided to end Mr. Saeed’s house
and the U.S. of masterminding a arrest as “nothing tangible was
2008 terror attack in Mumbai produced” in evidence against
that killed 166 people. him, according to his lawyer, A.K.
Mr. Saeed, head of the Isla- Dogar.
mist group Jamaat-ud-Dawa —Saeed Shah
NORTH KOREA
Terror Listing by U.S.
Elicits Official Scorn
Pyongyang lashed out at the
U.S.’s decision to redesignate it
as a state sponsor of terrorism,
calling the move an “impudent
provocation” that undermines
Washington’s stated desire for
diplomacy.
A Foreign Ministry statement
called the U.S. decision “a violent
infringement” of North Korea’s
dignity and “tantamount to an-
other declaration of war.”
North Korea’s response came
two days after President Donald
Trump on Monday announced
the long-expected move to re-
turn North Korea—which he
called a “murderous regime”—to
the U.S. roster of state sponsors
of terror.
—Jonathan Cheng

FROM PAGE ONE

UBER Both companies have said they

reported the incidents as
quickly as possible.
“In the U.S. today, most laws
Continued from Page One allow six to eight weeks for
interviews with employees and companies to notify regulators
others, as well as review ac- and consumers,” said Bo Hol-
counts, to determine how many land, the chief executive of All-
ANDRE COELHO/BLOOMBERG NEWS
your new management in or-
der,” said Deirdre Mulligan, a
University of California, Berke-
ley, professor who served as an
adviser to lawmakers during
the creation of California’s
breach-notification law. That
law requires companies to no-
publicly until this week that it
had earlier notified SoftBank of
the probe.
“We informed SoftBank that
we were investigating a data
breach, consistent with our
duty to disclose to a potential
investor, even though our infor-

customers and drivers were im- Clear ID Inc., a firm that helps tify consumers as soon as pos- mation at the time was prelimi-
pacted, one of the people said. corporations respond to data sible after a breach but doesn’t nary and incomplete,” Uber said
The company disclosed the breaches. Even companies that specify a time period. The Cali- in a statement Wednesday. “We
breach to the public only after meet this standard can suffer fornia Department of Justice also made clear that our foren-
it could put a firm number on tarnished reputations because declined to comment, citing its sic investigation was ongoing.
how many accounts were af- consumers and investors ex- policy of not commenting on However, once our internal in-
fected and cut ties with two ex- pect a speedier response, Mr. possible investigations. quiry concluded and we had a
ecutives who it said mishandled Holland said in an email. Uber said its investigation, more complete understanding
the response, this person said. Because there are no federal which included outside foren- of the facts, we disclosed to
Uber disclosed on Tuesday Dara Khosrowshahi, left, became Uber CEO in September. laws on breach notification, in- sics experts, found no evidence regulators and our customers in
that it had paid hackers cidents such as the Uber hack that consumers’ financial infor- a very public way.”
$100,000 to destroy the stolen took Uber more than a year to that allowed employees to are covered by a patchwork of mation was taken or that the Uber has been trying to
data and decided not to inform disclose the breach. Uber says track customers’ movements. 48 state laws, the strongest of personal information obtained shore up its investment deal
consumers or authorities. Those it is cooperating with various Other companies have been which require companies to no- was used to commit fraud, such with SoftBank, worth as much
actions occurred under its for- government offices to discuss criticized for the time they tify consumers directly as soon as identity theft. as $10 billion. The process has
mer chief executive, Travis Ka- the matter. It isn’t clear what took to disclose data breaches. as possible after personally After being contacted by the been slowed by talks over the
lanick, who resigned as CEO in penalties, if any, Uber may face. Equifax Inc., for example, was identifiable information is com- hackers, Uber convinced them price at which SoftBank would
June. He learned of the attack Mr. Khosrowshahi was faulted by lawmakers last promised. Uber, which is based to join the company’s “bug offer to buy shares from exist-
in November 2016 and autho- brought in to put a new face on month for taking almost six in San Francisco, is subject to bounty” program, which pays ing stakeholders, according to
rized the payment, according to the company after a year of weeks to go public after learn- these laws in states where it people for information about people familiar with the matter.
people familiar with the matter. scandals and legal setbacks. ing of a breach affecting more does business. Non-compliance flaws in company software, ac- Uber needed to disclose the
Several states, along with Uber has in the past faced criti- than 145 million consumers. Ya- exposes Uber to a range of cording to people familiar with data breach before that tender
the Federal Trade Commission cism for putting its business in- hoo Inc. faced similar criticism state penalties and to con- the matter. Uber said it was as- offer because it could be con-
and at least three European terests ahead of its customers, for revealing it didn’t promptly sumer lawsuits. sured by the hackers the stolen sidered material to investors,
government agencies, opened including by using a since-dis- investigate a 2014 incident in- “The provisions that allow data was destroyed. people familiar with the matter
inquiries this week into why it continued software program volving 500 million accounts. for delay are not about getting The company didn’t disclose said.
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Lebanon Steps In Tradeoff, Saudis Ease Social Rules
Back From Brink
BY NAZIH OSSEIRAN
BEIRUT—Lebanese Prime
Minister Saad Hariri said he
was suspending his resigna-
tion, rolling back a decision
that had fueled speculation his
country had become a pawn in
a regional power struggle be-
tween Iran and Saudi Arabia.
The capital erupted in cele-
bration after his statement on
Wednesday, with crowds of
supporters and convoys of
cars and motorcycles pouring
into the streets of downtown
Beirut. Thousands made their
way to Mr. Hariri’s home,
where he stepped outside and
mingled with the crowd.
Mr. Hariri returned to Leba-
non on Tuesday night for the
first time since he declared his
intention to resign on Nov. 4
while on a visit to Saudi Ara-
bia, shocking his countrymen.
On Wednesday morning, he at-
tended Independence Day cel-
ebrations, still in his role as
head of government.
After a meeting with Presi-
dent Michel Aoun, in which he
had been expected to formally
hand in his resignation, he
said he had changed his mind.
“I offered my resignation to
the president, who hoped that
Russia Dominates
Summit on Syria
Russian President Vladimir
Putin pressed his efforts to
shape a postwar political set-
tlement in Syria at a summit
Wednesday with the leaders of
Turkey and Iran in Sochi.
Russian state television
showed Mr. Putin greeting Ira-
nian President Hassan Rouhani
and Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan.
Mr. Putin said Syria was
entering a “postconflict period”
that would require a long-term
reconstruction effort.
Russia, Iran and Turkey
I would hold off handing it in
so that we can discuss the rea-
sons and the background be-
hind it,” he said from the pres-
idential palace. “I said I will
comply with this wish,” he
added, according to a state-
ment carried by the state-run
National News Agency.
Mr. Hariri’s plan to step
down set off a political crisis,
shaking the fragile balance of
power among Sunni Muslims,
Shiite Muslims and Christians
in Lebanon, a nation that re-
mains deeply scarred by its
1975-90 sectarian civil war.
In announcing his resigna-
tion, Mr. Hariri—the political
leader of Lebanon’s Sunni
Muslims—cited Shiite Iran’s
influence in his country
through its proxy militia, Hez-
bollah, the most powerful mil-
itary and political force in the
country. He also said that he
believed his life was in danger
and that circumstances were
reminiscent of 2005 when his
father—a former prime minis-
ter—was assassinated.
Mr. Aoun, a Hezbollah ally,
and others accused Saudi Ara-
bia of pressuring Mr. Hariri to
resign and holding him against
his will—a claim Riyadh de-
nied.
have backed warring parties in
the Syrian war and intervened
directly in the conflict. Moscow
and Tehran are allies, with Iran
providing advisers and foot sol-
diers and Russia providing air
power to support the forces of
Syrian President Bashar al-
Assad. In contrast, Ankara has
supported rebel groups seeking
to oust Mr. Assad, as well as
deploying forces inside Syria.
The three have found com-
mon ground in recent months,
backing negotiations and
agreeing on “de-escalation
zones” in Syria. Moscow has
taken on a dominant role in
mediating, overshadowing U.N.
talks.
—Nathan Hodge
WORLD NEWS
MIDDLE EAST
CROSSROADS
By Yaroslav Trofimov
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—In
asserting himself over Saudi
Arabia, 32-year-old Crown
Prince Mohammed bin Salman
is imposing a
trade-off that
appeals to
many young
Saudis.
The prince,
in essence, is
broadening so-
cial liberties in exchange for
closing off the limited political
freedoms that existed in the
kingdom.
That approach has worked
for other Gulf monarchies, no-
tably the United Arab Emir-
ates. There, no hint of politi-
cal dissent is tolerated but
social and religious rules are
relatively relaxed. Women en-
joy many rights denied to
them in Saudi Arabia. An
abundance of entertainment
and shopping options keeps
potential troublemakers busy.
S T
audi Arabia, one of the
world’s most conserva-
tive societies, strictly
enforces a strict interpretation
of Islam’s religious rules. But
the kingdom had allowed a de-
gree of political openness. Un-
til this year, dissidents, liberal
and conservative, felt rela-
tively free to speak to foreign
journalists, sometimes criti-
cizing important government
policies. Senior clerics made
their often-controversial opin-
ions public on social media, as
did senior members of the
House of Saud. Nothing of the
kind was possible in the
U.A.E., Qatar or Oman.
That era has ended now,
with Prince Mohammed’s re-
cent moves to consolidate
A poster of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Misk Forum in Riyadh on Nov. 15.
power ahead of succeeding his
father, King Salman.
Prince Mohammed rounded
up many liberal and conserva-
tive dissidents, as well as cler-
ics and some princes, in a
wave of arrests in September
that followed the deposing of
his predecessor as crown
prince, Mohammed bin Nayef,
in June. Then came the un-
precedented Nov. 4 purge,
with simultaneous detentions
of senior princes, officials and
key members of the business
community as part of a cor-
ruption investigation.
With this campaign reach-
ing hundreds of the kingdom’s
elite, few Saudis these days
dare to criticize the new re-
gime, even in private.
“The detentions have cre-
ated a climate of fear, so as to
prevent people from discuss-
ing what is going on in the
country,” said Saudi academic
Madawi al-Rasheed, a visiting
professor at the London
School of Economics.
Prince Mohammed’s sup-
porters argue that such a
forceful approach is needed to
break up the power of reli-
gious conservatives, and to
Friday, November 24, 2017 | A9
transform the kingdom when
its economy is unable to keep
up with the growing youth
population.
“He is steamrolling deep
structural change that has to
be done very quickly, and
there is no time to develop a
consensus,” said Ali Shihabi,
executive director of the Ara-
bia Foundation, a Washington
think tank that works with the
Saudi government. “He has
the right conception of what
Saudi Arabia should become,
and you need a benevolent
dictatorship to do that.”
I
n the most visible struc-
tural change pushed
through by Prince Moham-
med, the kingdom has decided
to allow women to drive. The
powers of the religious police
have been curbed, the segre-
gation of sexes is not enforced
as rigidly as before, and the
government is staging con-
certs and performances that
would have been unthinkable
a few years ago.
All that is popular among
Saudi Arabia’s youth, the ma-
jority of the kingdom’s popu-
lation. Few ordinary young
FAYEZ NURELDINE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
Saudis lament—and many
cheer—the woes of the old
elites.
“It’s a lot easier to get on
stage now, and people are
more and more open,” said
Saleh Almubaddel, a guitarist
in a two-man band that played
some 10 gigs in public this
year. “Before, we used to play
just to men, and now we play
to men and women together.”
he reforms have elicited
surprisingly little back-
lash from religious con-
servatives whose influence
was long cited by the House of
Saud as a reason to keep ev-
erything static.
In a recent night, a park
was buzzing with young Sau-
dis browsing food trucks and
knickknack stalls. Women
walked with their heads un-
covered as techno music
blared from a tent offering
mobile-phone plans.
“What is happening now is
very tangible changes, ones
that affect your day-to-day
life,” said Omar Hussein, a 31-
year-old Saudi YouTube celeb-
rity who now stars in a Saudi
TV show.
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Mladic Found Guilty of Balkan Genocide
BY DREW HINSHAW
AND LAURENCE NORMAN
In the summer of 1995, as
war rumbled across the for-
mer Yugoslavia, a brawny
general from the Bosnian Serb
army approached a crowd of
fearful civilians and assured
them they would be bused to
a peaceful town controlled by
fellow Muslims. Gen. Ratko
Mladic’s soldiers passed out
candy to the children hud-
dling near the eastern Bos-
nian town of Srebrenica.
Hours later, his troops be-
gan lining up and executing
roughly 8,000 boys and men—
some at gunpoint, others by
grenade—in what became
known as the Srebrenica mas-
sacre, the worst killing on Eu-
ropean soil since World War
II.
On Wednesday, a panel of
judges in The Hague sen-
tenced Mladic to life in prison
after finding him guilty on 10
of 11 counts, including for
genocide, crimes against hu-
U.K.’s Reward for Brexit Concessions May Be Meager
BY LAURENCE NORMAN
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa
May appears ready to offer
politically painful concessions
to the European Union in com-
ing days to advance Brexit ne-
gotiations, but
ANALYSIS the eventual re-
ward for doing
so—moving talks
onto the future trade relation-
ship and a post-Brexit transi-
tion—may prove meager.
EU officials are setting out
tough principles for shaping a
future trade relationship, sig-
naling Britain may have to ap-
ply broad swaths of European
rules and standards to gain
privileged access to the single
market. There appears to be
little flexibility for Britain to
escape the full force of EU
rules during a transition pe-
riod after it leaves the EU, and
it isn’t clear that EU leaders
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manity and war crimes during
the Bosnian war.
The ruling—the last major
will be ready to adopt guide-
lines for future trade talks
even if they say in December
that enough progress has been
made on the major divorce is-
sues.
At the last EU summit in
October, leaders of Britain’s 27
EU counterparts ordered offi-
cials to start “internal prepa-
ratory discussions.” The idea
was that the bloc would be
ready in the new year to start
negotiations on future ties if
sufficient progress was made
on divorce issues. These in-
clude citizens’ rights, the EU’s
financial settlement demands
and the Irish border issue.
However, with Britain and
the EU still bogged down in
talks on how much of its past
spending promises Britain is
prepared to stand by after
leaving and how to assuage
Irish demands for greater clar-
ity on avoiding the return of a
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verdict expected by the tribu-
nal—signals an end to a 22-
year quest to show that even
hard border on the island of
Ireland following Brexit, those
discussions were rudimentary.
The EU27 held three semi-
nars looking at future ties,
diplomats said, but that work
has now been frozen. The
seminars were essentially an
exercise taking a look at
agreements the EU already has
with other third countries that
are nonmembers, such as Nor-
way, Canada and Switzerland.
European officials say it
isn’t clear if EU leaders will
adopt formal guidelines for
the talks in December. The
chances they will do so are
better if Britain offers conces-
sions on the financial settle-
ment and Ireland well ahead
of the Dec 14-15 summit. But
even so, it isn’t guaranteed.
Even if they do agree on
guidelines, these may offer
only a set of fleshed-out prin-
ciples, not detailed prescrip-
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cades to find, investigate and
try Mladic, who was arrested
in 2011 after a 14-year pursuit.
The trial took four years and
included almost 600 witnesses
of the Bosnian events.
Mladic, who sat in court to
hear the verdict, began
shouting an hour and a half
in: “Everything is a lie!” Offi-
cers removed him from the
DIMITAR DILKOFF/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
court.
The judge found Mladic to
be directly involved in and re-
sponsible for Srebrenica, as
well as for the shelling and
terrorizing of the people of
Sarajevo during the long and
bloody siege of the city, now
Bosnia’s capital.
He was “so instrumental to
the commission of the crimes
that without them the crimes
would not have been commit-
ted as they were,” said Judge
Alphons Orie of Mladic’s in-
volvement in the Srebrenica
killings. About 140,000 people
warlords in collapsing states today resonates from Syria to died in the Bosnian conflict.
could be brought to interna- Congo. Nearly half of the dead were
tional justice, a question that It took more than two de- Bosnian Muslims.
the EU’s opening positions on pean governments both want
the transition and future trade to provide certainty as soon as
OWEN HUMPHREYS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
talks are likely to be. possible about what happens
On the transition, EU offi- after March 2019—preferably
cials and diplomats say the by the spring, officials say.
bloc has limited room for flex- That suggests largely sticking
ibility to relax the obligations to current rules.
Britain currently has as an EU In a speech in Brussels on
member, including respecting Monday, chief EU negotiator
decisions of the European Michel Barnier fleshed out his
Court of Justice, paying its thinking of what a future trade
membership fee and allowing deal would—and wouldn’t—al-
free movement of people. The low.
U.K. will be a rule-taker after He said Britain “will lose
its March 2019 exit, losing its the benefits of the single mar-
vote on EU decisions. ket” of goods and services
There may be some carve- once a transition is over, say-
U.K. Prime Minister May is out allowing Britain not to ap- ing that is the “legal reality”
trying to advance Brexit talks. ply new post-Brexit EU laws, once Britain decides to curtail
“but only if those bits of legis- free movement of people and
tions, since the EU27 are still lation have no material im- disregard EU court rulings.
waiting for London to spell pact” on the key rules of the He suggested there was lit-
out what it wants as part of a EU single market, said Simon tle willingness to agree to
deep and special future rela- Tilford, deputy director of the Mrs. May’s appeal for a deal
tionship. Center for European Reform. on financial services, saying
EU officials have been It isn’t just a question of that in this sector, too, “Brexit
sketching out ideas on what willingness. British and Euro- means Brexit.”
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Mugabe’s Reign Soaked Economy Lighting
At Night
Lengthy term of
Worse Off
Zimbabwe’s ex-leader Zimbabweans are poorer today
fed reversal of fortune than they were in 2000...
in Africa’s breadbasket GDP per capita*
BY MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF
Zimbabwe, one of Africa’s
most resource-rich nations,
suffered a steep economic de-
cline under the decadeslong
rule of Robert Mugabe, and his
successor will face an arduous
task in reviving the economy.
Unlike most other sub-Saha-
ran Africans, Zimbabweans are
considerably poorer today than
they were some three decades
ago, according to the World
Bank and other agencies, with
fewer people employed and
more people going hungry.
Once considered Africa’s
breadbasket for its productive
agricultural sector, Zimbabwe
is now the 22nd-poorest na-
tion in the world, according to
International Monetary Fund
data. Millions of its citizens
have emigrated in search of
work after a cycle of crises
stoked an inflation rate that
peaked in 2008 at 79.6 billion
percent.
The country’s economy is
again on a precipice. With the
budget deficit ballooning to
10% of gross domestic prod-
uct, U.S. dollars—Zimbabwe’s
effective currency—are in such
scarce circulation that people
have begun sleeping outside
banks.
“Macroeconomic stability is
threatened by high govern-
ment spending, the foreign-ex-
change regime is untenable,
and the pace of reform inade-
quate,” said Gene Leon, the
IMF’s Zimbabwe mission chief.
The country’s stubborn
state of economic emergency
marks a spectacular decline
Caution Trumps Celebration in Ex-Leader’s Village
BY GABRIELE STEINHAUSER
AND BERNARD MPOFU
KUTAMA, Zimbabwe—Far
from the streets of Harare,
where thousands loudly wel-
comed their incoming president
on Wednesday, Robert Mugabe’s
home village clung to its silence.
The wild celebrations that
rocked Zimbabwe’s cities and
spontaneous outbursts of an-
ger against Mr. Mugabe, who
resigned on Tuesday after 37
years in power, haven’t
reached Kutama, a small col-
lection of homesteads about an
hour’s drive from the capital.
While many Zimbabweans
declared Tuesday their new In-
dependence Day, proudly giv-
ing their names to reporters
when attacking Mr. Mugabe’s
legacy, people here still weigh
their words carefully—a legacy
of years lived in fear of the se-
cret police in a village whose
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Sources: World Bank (GDP, agriculture); Zimbabwe Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (tobacco); Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (undernourished); BMI Research, Bloomberg (inflation)
from when Robert Mugabe
took its helm in 1980, ending
white-minority rule after years
of armed struggle amid wide-
spread jubilation. His first 15
years in power were broadly
reformist, characterized by
consensus building and large
investments in education and
infrastructure. In those years
the economy continued to ex-
pand.
By the mid-1990s, when
many other African nations
were grappling with famine
and conflict, Zimbabwe was
the second-most-industrialized
nation in sub-Saharan Africa
Some Kutama residents hope Robert Mugabe will return to his hometown after leaving the presidency.
meager gains relied entirely on
the patronage of its most
prominent resident.
“We have no problem with
the president. What for? We
are very grateful for our presi-
dent,” a graying man on a bicy-
cle said. “We are even planning
a party to welcome him home.”
Unlike other villages of its
size, Kutama has its own hos-
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20
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…and the risk of hyperinflation is always near.
Implied inflation‡
150%
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’15
and one of its only net grain
exporters, according to the
Food and Agriculture Organi-
zation, a United Nations body.
A growing manufacturing base
and an increasingly healthy
and better-educated popula-
tion showcased the country’s
economic ascent.
But in the late 1990s, Mr.
Mugabe launched a set of new
policies to nationalize and re-
distribute land—ostensibly to
correct colonial-era inequali-
ties that benefited white
farmers—and to greatly in-
crease state-funded payouts
to his political constituency.
pital and police station. But
unemployment is high and
most of its inhabitants poor,
surviving on subsistence farm-
ing or money sent back by rel-
atives in the city.
For years, Mr. Mugabe has
visited most weekends; con-
crete walls and iron fences
block the view of his private
compound. Some villagers be-
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The approach triggered a col-
lapse in economic output. By
the early 2000s, production
of tobacco, the country’s top
export, had begun to plummet
in the wake of the land mea-
sures, and it still hasn’t fully
recovered.
As the ramifications of the
land redistribution and gross
government overspending
worked through the economy,
child mortality skyrocketed
and life expectancy plummeted
amid an HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Millions became poorer. The
land program also tore
through bank balance sheets
lieve this is where the 93-year-
old will soon come to retire.
Across the road, a small row
of shops marks Kutama’s main
market square, where shared
taxi buses await their passen-
gers and police in a large cam-
ouflage tent register voters for
next year’s elections.
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as land held as collateral for
loans was rendered largely
worthless.
“The biggest of the govern-
ment’s faults is that they took
the land off the market. That
market value used to support
loans and businesses,” said
John Robertson, a Harare-
based economist.
That will be no easy matter
to reverse, but taming the
country’s leviathan state ap-
paratus may well prove even
harder, Mr. Robertson sug-
’10 Citing official labor-force
data, he said some one million
people were in full-time em-
ployment in the 1990s, 10% in
government jobs. Today, only
800,000 are fully employed in
the formal economy, and
300,000 of them work for the
state. Separately, an additional
200,000 people are war veter-
ans and others receiving state
pensions.
Government wages and sal-
aries consumed nearly 70% of
state revenue last year, the
IMF said, a share about three
times the average on the con-
tinent. That could make cut-
ting public spending a tall or-
der for Mr. Mugabe’s
successor.
An IMF bailout could be
one option for Zimbabwe, but
it can be requested only once
the government clears arrears
totalling some $9 billion with
the World Bank, the African
Development Bank and the Eu-
ropean Investment Bank. Any
such arrangement would also
require Zimbabwe to agree to
a raft of painful policy reforms
and negotiate debt restructur-
ing with its lenders.
“There’s not a government
on Earth that can claim it has
more power than the market,”
Mr. Robertson said. “We need
to fix what we did wrong.”
1980, the name topping the
GABRIELE STEINHAUSER/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
ticket won’t be one of their own,
but Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mr.
Mugabe’s former vice president,
who was set to be sworn in on
Friday to serve out the rest of
his term. The president stepped
down after a military takeover
of his government and impeach-
ment proceedings initiated by
his own party.
On Thursday, an official
from Mr. Mugabe’s ruling
ZANU-PF party said the presi-
dent was assured he wouldn’t
be prosecuted if he resigned,
the Associated Press reported.
Within hours of tanks rolling
into the capital last week, Zim-
babwe’s state media switched
from defending Mr. Mugabe to
hailing Mr. Mnangagwa, his
military-backed successor.
Broadcaster ZBC carried a
story on Zvishavane—the vil-
lage where Mr. Mnangagwa
was born.
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BY ROBERT LEE HOTZ
Global night light is getting
bigger and brighter, blotting
out the stars of the Milky Way
for one-third of humankind,
according to a new study of
federal satellite data measur-
ing outdoor lighting.
Spurred by a shift to more
energy-efficient illumination
in many areas, artificial night
lighting world-wide has been
expanding steadily, with po-
tential consequences for hu-
man health, wildlife and foli-
age, scientists led by the GFZ
German Research Center for
Geosciences in Potsdam re-
ported Wednesday in the jour-
nal Science Advances.
“Earth’s night is getting
brighter,” said study lead au-
thor Christopher Kyba, a phys-
icist at the GFZ German Re-
search Center who studies the
ecological impact of light.
By their calculations, artifi-
cial outdoor lighting world-
wide grew in both area and in-
tensity by 2.2% a year between
2012 and 2016. They took ad-
vantage of data collected by
an orbital sensor normally
used by the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administra-
tion to track cloud patterns
for weather forecasts. The
Experts worry that
overexposure to night-
time lighting can
adversely affect health.
sensor is sensitive to many of
the same wavelengths of light
as the human eye.
The data reveal that the
area encompassed by outdoor
lighting expanded throughout
Asia, Africa and South Amer-
ica. Also, the radiance of
night-time lighting in the
world’s most well-lit regions,
including the U.S., Italy, the
Netherlands and Spain, has
become even more blinding.
Only in countries racked by
armed conflicts, such as Syria
and Yemen, did the night
lighting dim.
Until recently, it was mostly
astronomers and naturalists
who complained about the
vanishing night sky. For much
of the world, it no longer gets
dark enough for the human
eye to adjust to night vision,
experts said.
But now public-health ex-
perts worry that overexposure
to nighttime lighting can ad-
versely affect human health
and well-being, with studies
linking it to the risk of depres-
sion, obesity and cancer.
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KILLER
Continued from Page One
Moscow’s bid to reassert con-
trol. With a stalemate on the
battlefront between Russian-
backed rebels and the govern-
ment, Moscow and Kiev ap-
pear to have turned to
contract killings to settle
scores and winnow the ranks
of commanders in the war,
Western diplomats say.
Most of those killings have
been carried out far from the
almost daily volleys of artil-
lery in eastern Ukraine, turn-
ing Kiev into a hotbed of spies
and hit men.
Victims have included the
head of a Ukrainian special
forces unit, Maksim Shapoval,
who was blown up in his car
at an intersection in down-
town Kiev in June, and a for-
mer Russian prosecutor and
parliament member, Denis
Voronenkov, who had recently
fled to Kiev for protection and
was shot dead on a chestnut
tree-lined boulevard in March.
There have also been mys-
terious attacks in rebel-held
areas, where a mix of civilians
and pro-Russian soldiers in-
habit the shelled-out remains
of the country’s industrial
heartland. One rebel com-
mander, Mikhail Tolstykh, was
killed by a rocket fired into
his office in the provincial city
of Donetsk in February. An-
other, Arsen Pavlov, was killed
last year by a bomb planted in
his elevator.
The conflict in eastern
Ukraine erupted in 2014 after
protesters in Kiev toppled a
Russia-friendly president and
established a pro-Western
government. Moscow invaded
and annexed the country’s Cri-
mea peninsula. At the height
of fighting, the country’s in-
dustrial east was awash with
fighters of all stripes, from
Ukrainian nationalists to pro-
Kremlin soldiers of fortune to
bored men and women from
post-Soviet backwaters look-
ing for adventure.
In Kiev, many of the trig-
germen appear to be freelanc-
ers, moonlighting from their
jobs in the Ukrainian armed
forces or police, say law-en-
forcement officials and West-
ern diplomats.
Valentyn Nalyvaichenko,
former head of the Ukraine in-
telligence services, said in an
interview the mix has been
made more murderous by for-
eign mercenaries who recog-
nize Ukraine as a new place to
ply their trade.
Earlier this year, a man
posing as a French journalist
in Kiev invited a battalion
commander to an interview,
then allegedly shot him. The
attempted hit went awry
when the victim’s wife pulled
a gun of her own out of her
purse and fired back, dis-
abling him with two shots.
She herself was gunned down
and killed four months later.
Even amid this mayhem,
Mr. Makhauri’s career stands
out. In a monotone, Mr.
Makhauri described his path
from Chechnya, where he al-
lied himself with rebels for in-
dependence from Russia; to
Georgia, whose side he fought
on during its brief war with
Moscow in 2008; to Syria,
where Russian-speaking jihad-
ists flocked to fight against
Russia’s interests, many under
the flag of Islamic State. For-
mer Chechen rebels and offi-
DRINK
Continued from Page One
Bartenders weren’t crazy
about the drink’s elaborate
serving ritual, which involves
pouring a measure of absinthe
into a glass and balancing a
sugar cube on a slotted spoon
on the rim. Ice water is then
dripped through the sugar from
a specially made decanter
called a “fountain” to dilute the
drink—most absinthes are
about 120 proof.
“The guests weren’t always
super into it,” said Dave Kaplan,
one of the founders of the bar
Death & Co in New York’s East
Village, who said the excitement
only lasted about six months. A
big turnoff was absinthe’s
strong anise taste, which is sim-
ilar to black licorice. “Most of
the time,” Mr. Kaplan said, “the
drinks would go unfinished.”
Bartender Tyson Buhler said
instead of a fountain service,
Death & Co now offers a jug of
sweetened water for customers
to pour as they please. Even so,
he said most customers first try
the extremely high-proof drink
neat. “It’s a jarring experience
for a lot of people,” he said. “I
Life in the Shadows
1999—Timur Makhauri fights
Russian soldiers trying to re-es-
tablish Moscow’s control over
Chechnya. Retreating to the
mountains, Mr. Makhauri serves
under Chechen rebel com-
mander Shamil Basayev.
2002—Mr. Makhauri relocates
to Georgia where he continues
to help insurgents fighting Rus-
sia.
2006—Mr. Makhauri works for
Georgian secret services, meets
with a Russian agent who had
been sent to kill him. The
agent, successfully turned by
Georgia, becomes a public rela-
tions coup for the anti-Russian
president at the time, Mikheil
Saakashvili.
July 10, 2006—Mr. Basayev is
killed when a truckload of
weapons blows up. Because Mr.
Makhauri was coordinating lo-
gistics, some Chechens believe
he was behind the death.
2009—A bomb packed with
nuts and bolts explodes outside
Mr. Makhauri’s apartment build-
ing. Miraculously, he survives
the blast with a few scrapes.
Georgians blame Russia.
2009—Chechen rebel envoy Ali
Osaev is killed outside his
home in Istanbul. Mr. Makhauri,
who said he was friends with
Mr. Osaev, is later tried for the
A bomb in the arm rest of this car set off by remote control killed Timur Makhauri in Kiev.
cials in Georgia, where he
worked for several years with
the state security service, con-
firmed parts of his story, as
did Ukrainian government of-
ficials who investigated his
past.
Mr. Makhauri came to
Ukraine, he said, to hunt down
the agents Moscow sent to
eliminate opponents abroad.
“I know who to look for
and to stop them before they
do anything,” he said from un-
der a mop of long black hair,
speaking politely in a vernacu-
lar Russian that earned him
the nickname “Zone,” refer-
ring to someone from a penal
colony. “There is a small num-
ber who do this kind of thing.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry
Peskov denied Mr. Makhauri’s
accusations that Moscow
sends hired guns to Kiev to do
away with opponents. “This is
the first time we hear that,”
he said.
Mr. Makhauri said he was
dealt his career by accident.
He said he was born in
Grozny, Chechnya, in 1978 and
although he had wanted to
study piano as a young man
don’t see it becoming the next
bourbon.”
Last year, U.S. absinthe sales
were 42% lower than in 2008—
the first full year the spirit was
reauthorized—according to re-
search firm IWSR. Absinthe ex-
perts say they don’t believe the
numbers fully reflect a market
mostly composed of small local
players, but they acknowledge
overall sales are indeed likely to
be lower than a decade ago.
Brian Robinson of the
Wormwood Society, a nonprofit
focused on dispelling myths
about the spirit, said bars are
mostly to blame for lagging
sales. The Virginia financial ad-
viser said that out of the 200-
plus places where he has tried
absinthe, “maybe three or four
of them served it properly.
Maybe you only dilute it one to
one, or you serve it straight, or
you set it on fire—nobody likes
that because it doesn’t taste
good.”
The fire-setting ritual origi-
nated in the Czech Republic.
Many Americans had their first
experience with absinthe in
Prague bars in the 1990s.
Hali Barnett, a bartender at
Lovecraft in the East Village,
said her bar offers the fire rit-
ual mostly due to popular de-
IN DEPTH
Timur Makhauri is placed under arrest in Kiev.
killing in Turkey.
2012—Mr. Makhauri leaves
Georgia and meets an agent
from Russia’s Federal Security
Service in Istanbul, bartering
over the price of killing three in-
dividuals. Mr. Makhauri later
said he taped the meeting in a
ruse to glean information from
Moscow.
2012—While passing through
passport control at Istanbul’s
Ataturk Airport, Mr. Makhauri is
detained carrying a map of
he never had the chance be-
cause he, like others his age,
was caught up in the region’s
two wars for independence
from Moscow. He said he
joined rebellion full-time in
1999.
Most of his classmates
were wiped out early in the
war when Russian troops
stormed the Chechen capital,
he said. For several years, he
said, he fought in the moun-
tains in the southern reaches
of the province, staging hit-
and-run attacks on Russian
forces and ambushing supply
convoys.
He gained the trust of
Chechen field commander
Shamil Basayev, who was no-
torious inside Russia for plan-
ning grisly hostage-taking op-
erations, according to a fellow
Chechen fighter interviewed
by phone.
As rebel losses mounted,
Mr. Basayev decided Mr.
Makhauri was too valuable to
lose and ordered him back to
Georgia to ferry supplies for
the fight inside Chechnya, the
fighter said.
The Kremlin has long ac-
mand. Customers who favor it
tend to be in their early 20s,
she said. She usually warns
guests requesting it that she is
about to burn most of the alco-
hol out of the drink, but she
doesn’t try to dissuade them
further. “They just want to get
smashed,” she said.
Absinthe’s herbal ingredi-
ents, which include grand
wormwood, green anise and
fennel, may be part of the prob-
lem. William Elliott, bar direc-
tor at Maison Premiere in Wil-
liamsburg, Brooklyn, said anise
isn’t a flavor many Americans
are familiar with. “All over the
world, it’s a major component
in baking, confections and alco-
hol,” he said. “Only America has
this big childhood problem of
disliking the flavor.”
In France, while the flavor is
popular, drinkers have mostly
moved on to a similar-tasting
spirit—pastis. Even though ab-
sinthe is for sale again in
France, few there are switching
back. “It’s easy to lose a taste
for something that hasn’t been
around for a century,” said
Marc Thuillier, a Frenchman
who runs two websites about
absinthe.
Jeremy King, a 30-year-old
firefighter from Lakewood,
Friday, November 24, 2017 | A13
commander, Mr. Basayev, re-
ceived a load of explosives
from a truck driven from
Georgia into Russia. The ship-
rated the story. Givi Targama-
dze, the former chairman of
the defense and security com-
mittee of the Georgian Parlia-
ment blew up, killing him and ment, said Georgian authori-
much of the rebel leadership. ties knew about Mr.
Mr. Makhauri, it was rumored, Makhauri’s meeting with FSB
had planted a booby trap in officers and that the opera-
the truck. tion was carried out to ascer-
In the interview in Kiev, Mr. tain whom Russian intelli-
Makhauri denied involvement gence services were targeting.
in Mr. Basayev’s death, and The court didn’t convict
said that Russia’s security ser- Mr. Makhauri but didn’t re-
vices were behind the rumors. lease him either for four years
“So many times they shot me, as it cited various procedural
blew me up and did every- hold ups. Finally, Mr.
thing they could to kill me,” Makhauri was acquitted on
he said. “So they tarnished my lack of evidence in 2016, his
name.” lawyer in Istanbul, Dursun
Robert Schaefer, a retired Uçar, said.
U.S. Special Forces officer who A picture of him with his
helped train Georgian troops wife in Istanbul shows he had
in the early 2000s, said in an grown a beard to his chest,
KYIV OPERATIV
interview that Moscow often and she wore a traditional
tried to disrupt rebels by sow- head scarf. But soon he
ing phony reports of turncoats trimmed his beard and moved
in their midst. But he added to Ukraine, where he found
that many defeated rebels work with a volunteer battal-
needed work and the money ion fighting Russian-backed
Syria and a compass. for paid hits overtook consid- rebels in the east of the coun-
erations of loyalty or friend- try.
2016—Mr. Makhauri is acquitted ship. Mr. Makhauri said he spent
in Turkey. He moves to Ukraine, They may have become sol- little time on the actual battle
where the former Georgian diers for patriotic reasons, but front. Instead he stayed
president, Mr. Saakashvili, is in- “soon they start going down mostly in Kiev on the lookout
volved in politics. this spiral of what had been for agents sent by Moscow. In
legitimate special operations January, he said, he noticed
February 2017—Mr. Makhauri into wet work that they never that he himself was being fol-
is arrested in Kiev and charged thought they would have been lowed, and in February he was
with illegal possession of weap- involved in earlier,” Mr. arrested by police in the cen-
ons. Schaefer said. tral market for possession of
Many former Chechen reb- his handguns, a Glock and a
Sept. 8, 2017—Mr. Makhauri is els ultimately left Georgia, de- Stechkin automatic pistol.
killed by a bomb hidden in the camping to Turkey with their In the interview, Mr.
armrest of a friend’s car. families, while others went to Makhauri said he suspected
Syria to join jihadist groups that Russian agents were
fighting the Russian-backed looking for him in Ukraine,
government of Bashar al- but that there was no other
Assad. Mr. Makhauri said in country for him to go to. “Ev-
his interview in Kiev that he erywhere is dangerous,” he
also began spending time in said.
Turkey, and in 2012 also vis- When he was released from
ited Syria for three months jail in April after he pleaded
“just to see the situation.” guilty to illegal firearms pos-
In Turkey, Mr. Makhauri’s session, he told friends that
name was tied to mysterious he sensed he was still being
killings that made it hard to followed—by whom he wasn’t
shake suspicions that he was a sure.
SERGEY DOLZHENKO/EPA/SHUTTERSTOCK
double agent. The victims, all Early in September, Mr.
former Chechen fighters, were Makhauri had coffee at a cafe
gunned down either on the
street or near their homes be-
tween 2008 and 2011.
In 2012, Mr. Makhauri was
Moscow and Kiev
passing through passport con- appear to have turned
trol in the airport in Istanbul
when Turkish police arrested
to contract killings to
him, later charging him with settle scores.
murder. At trial, prosecutors
cast him as a possible double
agent, and presented lurid ev-
cused Georgia of funding idence of Mr. Makhauri’s in the center of Kiev and ac-
Chechen rebels in their fight meetings with agents from cepted a ride from a friend
against Russia—something the Russia’s Federal Security Ser- who was driving her daughter
Georgian government offi- vice, or FSB. home, according to police. The
cially denies. A key piece of evidence was car pulled out of an under-
But Zurab Maisuradze, who a videotape, shot by Mr. ground garage and stood in
ran Georgia’s antiterrorism Makhauri himself through a rush-hour traffic. Police say
center, acknowledged in an in- camera concealed in the but- Mr. Makhauri was riding in
terview that he took Mr. ton of his shirt, of one meet- the passenger seat, likely
Makhauri under his wing. He ing in which he bargained leaning toward the center of
said he arranged for the with a Russian agent over the the vehicle when a bomb det-
young Chechen to receive two price of killing three men who onated in the arm rest, rip-
Georgian passports—one in had fallen out of favor with ping off his arm and part of
the name of Ruslan Papaskiri Moscow. Speaking over a his torso and killing him in-
and another made out to lunch in Istanbul, Mr. stantly.
Timur Makhauri. Makhauri poked at a plate of The bomb, which police say
Mr. Maisuradze called Mr. fish as he asked for $1 million likely weighed about two kilo-
Makhauri “a great Georgian per head, but then settled for grams and was set off by re-
patriot” always willing to un- half that for the first hit. mote control, was fashioned
dertake a mission against the “This work is something to direct its blast against the
Russians, whom they saw as a I’ve always dreamed of,” he passenger, although it maimed
common enemy. In 2006, Mr. said in a reedy monotone. the driver. Her daughter
Makhauri proved his loyalty, “Like films about hunters and wasn’t seriously hurt.
he said, when the Chechen the hunted.” Ukraine’s Interior Ministry
agreed to meet a Russian In the jailhouse in Kiev, Mr. spokesman, Artem
agent who was sent to Tbilisi Makhauri said that the trial Shevchenko, issued a state-
to kill him. The Georgians against him and the videotape ment after the blast that a
eventually flipped the agent to were all a farce. He held the motive for the killing hasn’t
work for their side, he said. meeting, he said, on behalf of been determined. But he
But in the fog of spy in- the Georgian security services noted that Mr. Makhauri was
trigue, rumors began to circu- to lure the Russian agent into “known quite well in the crim-
late that Mr. Makhauri was an embarrassing situation and inal world.”
working for the Russians, too. perhaps recruit him. Former —Natalie Gryvnyak in Kiev
In 2006, the Chechen rebel Georgian authorities corrobo- contributed to this article.
former chemist, who played a
key role in getting the spirit re-
authorized in the U.S., said the
compound is a convulsant, but
studies that he co-wrote
showed absinthe contains only
a trace amount, even in pre-ban
varieties.
“The sage in your Thanksgiv-
ing stuffing will give you more
DAVID MARCELIS/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
thujone than any normal ab-
sinthe,” the Wormwood Soci-
ety’s Mr. Robinson said.
Mr. Breaux said the resur-
gence of classic cocktails has
helped the sales of absinthe. He
said the Savoy Cocktail Book, a
1930 publication that serves as
many bartenders’ bible, fea-
tures dozens of drinks that call
for absinthe.
Bartender Hali Barnett serves absinthe at Lovecraft in New York. Mr. Elliott, the bar director
at Maison Premiere, said he is
Ohio, said he first wanted to try drunk,” he said. introducing absinthe to patrons
absinthe after watching “Eu- Absinthe was originally be- by using it in a broad range of
roTrip,” a 2004 comedy featur- lieved to be psychedelic, and cocktails where it is the domi-
ing a group of American teen- toxic, because of thujone, a nant ingredient.
agers crisscrossing Europe. compound found in grand “We have an absinthe piña
Shortly after downing shots of wormwood—or Artemisia ab- colada on the menu,” he said.
absinthe in a Bratislava night- sinthium, after which the spirit When the drink was introduced
club, some characters see a is named—but also in many about five years ago, “I was
green fairy—as the spirit is of- other herbs, including sage and sort of rolling my eyes,” he
ten called—flying around them. oregano. said. Today, it is one of Maison
“It wasn’t the same,” Mr. It is a myth that thujone is Premiere’s most popular. “You
King said, after he bought a hallucinogenic, said Ted Breaux, have to tempt people to enjoy
bottle and tried it at home. All an absinthe distiller and something that they haven’t
absinthe did was “get you really founder of Jade Liqueurs. The historically enjoyed,” he said.
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Parade Viewers Endure Cold, Extra Security N.Y. Hotel
Millions gathered in Will Lose
Its Trump
Manhattan to watch
Macy’s Thanksgiving

Moniker
Day extravaganza
BY JOSH BARBANEL
BY CHRIS KIRKHAM
Beneath a thick blanket of
security, the Macy’s Thanksgiv- The Trump name will no
ing Day Parade stepped off on longer adorn a lower Manhat-
Thursday morning in Manhat- tan hotel once considered a
tan in an annual ritual of inno- jewel in the family’s interna-
cence and commercial branding. tional real-estate portfolio.
At a time of national political The Trump Organization
and social squabbles and rising said it is ending its manage-
fears of terrorist attacks, the ment and licensing agreement
parade marched to its own tra- with the owners of the Trump
ditional drumbeat, with its SoHo Hotel by the end of the
bands, clowns, floats, glitter, year. A statement released
PETER FOLEY FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (3)

confetti and 17 giant helium- Wednesday by the Trump Or-

filled balloons. ganization called the deal a
Security has been tightened “buyout of the remaining
in each of the past few parades term” of the agreement with
and was more intensive than CIM Group, a California real-
ever this year, the police said, estate investment firm.
following a deadly Halloween Neither the Trump Organi-
attack by an alleged terrorist zation nor CIM Group re-
who drove a rental truck at sponded to requests for addi-
high speed down a Manhattan tional information.
bike lane taking aim at cyclists President Donald Trump
and pedestrians. first announced plans for the
Two police helicopters hov- Trump SoHo on his television
ered above the parade route, as Olaf, a snowman from Disney’s animated feature ‘Frozen,’ was one of the new characters to join clowns, cheerleaders and other attractions. show “The Apprentice” in
trucks filled with sand and 2006, and he and his family
other large vehicles blocked helped market the property.
many intersections throughout The luxury property opened
the area. Heavily armed officers in 2010 as a 391-unit condo-
stood up and down nearby minium-hotel, but the devel-
streets. Spotters and sharp- opers, the Sapir Organization
shooters were posted high on and Bayrock Group, struggled
neighboring buildings. to sell enough units to keep
Even a once-casual occasion the property afloat, The Wall
Wednesday evening, when by- Street Journal previously re-
standers witnessed the filling of ported. CIM Group, a lender to
the balloons on the West Side, the original developers, took
was turned into a hardened, control of the project in 2014
protected event. after a foreclosure auction.
But inside the cocoon of pa- Trump Hotels, a part of the
rade security on Thanksgiving Trump Organization led by
Day, millions of people, some Mr. Trump’s adult sons, Don-
who had to wait for many hours ald Jr. and Eric, had no own-
in the cold, cheered as the pa- ment officers came by and told ple participated in the parade, ership interest in the hotel.
rade moved down from Central them the area was being closed not counting the police, includ- Student Performers Spirit of America Produc- The Trump Organization li-
Park West to Sixth Avenue and off for security. So they went ing dancers, cheerleaders, tions, a private company, pro- censed its name and managed
on to Macy’s flagship store in back to their hotel on the West Broadway performers, celebri- Enjoy Fleeting Fame vides the performances with- the hotel as part of an agree-
Herald Square, a distance of 2½ Side to warm up, then returned ties and Macy’s employees. out charge to Macy’s after ment with the owners.
miles. to find a perch on Sixth Avenue Danielle Erdogan, a Warwick, bringing the young dancers to
Brenda Cook, who is 68 just below Central Park. They R.I., Macy’s supervisor, boarded It may not be Broadway. New York, said Laura Davis, a
years old, and her husband said they were chilled but a bus at 2 a.m. and arrived in But for 1,200 girls, and a few Spirit co-owner who has
Dundas Winn, 70, came to New happy to be there. New York in the early morning boys, who came to dance and worked on the performances
Soho hotel is popular
York this week from their home The parade included 17 gi- hours. She carried a basket of flash pompoms, performing at for 32 years. among athletes but
in Mount Vernon, Wash., north ant balloons, with characters plastic cranberries and marched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Spirit selects participants
of Seattle, to experience from cartoons and video- alongside a float for the cran- Parade is close enough. from dance and cheerleading
some have said they
Thanksgiving in New York. games. The tallest was a new berry cooperative Ocean Spray. Marching in the parade competitions, summer training won’t stay there.
They got up at 4 a.m. and balloon, showing a 60-foot It featured an 18-foot tall turkey along Sixth Avenue in front of programs and via two-minute
took up a position in Columbus high version of Olaf, a snow- and goose and 400 oversize cheering crowds, with the taped auditions.
Circle by 5:30, sitting on a yel- man from the animated fea- cranberries. bands, floats and big balloons, The efforts culminate in a
low plastic suitcase they had ture “Frozen” released by Dis- Like other participants and is a peak moment in the young fleeting moment of fame—90- Eric Danziger, chief execu-
found in the street and wheeled ney in 2013. There was also a viewers, she said she wasn’t lives of many of the high- second performances broad- tive of Trump Hotels, said the
with them. new balloon of Chase, a police afraid for her safety. “I know school students from around cast across the country in company has “truly enjoyed
“We came for the parade,” pup from the animated televi- what these guys, the NYPD do,” the country who converge on front of Macy’s flagship store our relationship” with CIM
Ms. Cook said. sion series PAW Patrol. she said. “I know they know Manhattan each Thanksgiving. on West 34th Street. Group, adding “we look for-
But New York Police Depart- In all, more than 8,000 peo- how to make us safe.” ward to exploring new oppor-
tunities in the future.”
Bill Doak, a CIM Group ex-

Penn Station’s Glory Days Inspire Campaign for Its Future ecutive, said that “under the
seasoned management of the
Trump Organization, the hotel
has been established as one of
BY PAUL BERGER the current station. the finest in New York City,
In June, The Empire State with recognition among top
Campaigners are stepping Development Corporation critics.”
up their fight to restore New opened a $300 million con- Some Trump hotel proper-
York Penn Station to its former course for Long Island Rail ties have done well since Mr.
grandeur. Road commuters under Eighth Trump, a Republican, was
Armed with an artist’s ren- Avenue. The concourse is the elected in 2016. The Trump In-
derings of soaring Corinthian first phase of a $1.9 billion ternational Hotel in Washing-
columns and platforms bathed project to transform the James ton, D.C., a favorite among vis-
in natural light, the National A. Farley Post Office Building iting diplomats, outperformed
JEFF STIKEMAN FOR REBUILD PENN STATION

Civic Art Society has launched into a skylit train hall for Am- expectations this year on prof-
an advertising campaign across trak and Long Island Rail Road its and daily rates, according
NJ Transit trains and stations. passengers. It is expected to to federal documents.
The Washington, D.C.-based open in 2020. But there are signs that the
society, which promotes art New York state also plans to Trump name hasn’t been good
and architecture, is calling for overhaul Penn Station’s main for business elsewhere. The
construction of an improved Long Island Rail Road con- Trump International Hotel and
version of the early 20th cen- course and to redesign its two Tower in Toronto dropped the
tury station that was knocked subway stations on the Eighth Trump name earlier this year.
down in 1963 to make way for Avenue and Broadway—Sev- Koi, the flagship restaurant
Madison Square Garden and enth Avenue lines. at the Trump SoHo, closed
the subterranean station that Advocates say it would cost up to $3.5 billion to build a version of the early 20th century station. Mr. Shubow said those proj- earlier this year, though a new
commuters tolerate today. ects don’t go far enough. restaurant, Spring & Varick,
Volunteers at Penn Station “We think that something cause it requires relocating Each weekday, the station Neither Stephen Gardner, opened in its place earlier this
are also handing out leaflets to has to happen with Penn Sta- Madison Square Garden, but handles about 600,000 passen- Amtrak’s executive vice presi- month. The hotel had been
New Jersey, Amtrak and Long tion,” said Justin Shubow, the also because the station is gers. dent for public affairs, nor a popular among professional
Island Rail Road passengers. executive director of Rebuild owned by Amtrak and operated A massive renovation of the spokeswoman for NJ Transit athletes, but some, including
The campaign estimates the Penn Station. in different sections by Am- Penn Station complex is al- commented on the idea of re- Cleveland Cavaliers star Le-
project would cost up to $3.5 Redeveloping Penn Station trak, the Long Island Rail Road ready under way, but it is building the original Penn Sta- Bron James, have said they
billion. is complicated not only be- and NJ Transit. mostly taking place outside of tion. won’t stay in the hotel.
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‘Mrs. Maisel’: Not So Kosher
WATCHING the relentlessly cheery, reflexively
funny, fabulously fashionable Miriam “Midge”
Maisel organize everyone’s life during the
early moments of “The Marvelous Mrs. Mai-
sel,” I started to sense a certain obsessive-
compulsive pathology behind all the ruthless
domestic efficiency.
“How would you describe her?” I asked
out loud, meaning psychologically.
“Not Jewish,” said a viewing companion.
It’s no small point. Almost everything
about “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” concerns
the Jewishness of its characters. Everything
wrong about “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,”
developed by “Gilmore Girls” creator Amy
Sherman-Palladino and starring the very
wonderful Rachel Brosnahan, is about the ap-
propriation of an ethnicity—and a commu-
nity, and a historical moment—by people who
don’t seem to have had a cultural clue. There
are great one-liners, endearing performances
and a visually opulent representation of New
York in the nascent “Mad Men” era. But the
world of the show simply doesn’t make
sense.
Exhibit A is Midge, who exists in a color-co-
ordinated universe of plum-colored gloves and
matching hats, lives in an apartment the size
of the old Penn Station, and has finally suc-
ceeded in getting the rabbi to come for Yom
Kippur dinner. It’s such a coup that even her
butcher knows about it—the butcher who’s
busy selling pork chops to another customer.
Pork chops? It’s 1958 on the Upper West Side
and she doesn’t have a kosher butcher?
What seems like a setup for a gag—the
pork, maybe, will be fed to the rabbi?—goes
nowhere. Which isn’t a shanda, necessarily,
but it’s certainly a mistake, one of many
that taxi through the story of Mrs. Maisel,
who is herself a misfire—not in terms of Ms.
Brosnahan’s often electric comedic impulse,
but in background and identity. Midge is liv-
ing a well-manicured bourgeois dream, until
her husband, Joel (Michael Zegen), says he’s
leaving her for his secretary, at which point
she careens from upper-middle-class con-
tentment to a career as a Lenny Bruce-style
comic; Lenny Bruce, played by Luke Kirby, is
even a recurring character early on.
But how did she get here? She may be Bryn
Mawr-educated, but she’s the daughter of a
math professor at Columbia, Abe Weissman
(Tony Shalhoub), not a plastic surgeon from
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Westchester. Her mother, Rose (Marin Hinkle),
greets the news of the separation with the
kind of highly refined hysteria that belongs to
another species entirely. Who are these peo-
ple? The actors don’t seem to know either.
For all its valuable lessons about Midge’s
liberation, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (epi-
sode 1 is already available to Amazon Prime
users; all eight of season 1 become available
Wednesday) undercuts its humor by availing
itself of a specific milieu without paying any
attention to the specifics. Or, for that matter,
its own narrative: Midge’s father-in-law, the
rag-trade vulgarian Moishe Maisel (Kevin Pol-
lak), keeps his sweatshop open on Yom Kip-
pur so his gentiles don’t lose any money—or
so he says in episode 1. Then, in episode 2, he
boasts over dinner with the Weissmans about
the 13 Jews from Germany he brought over in
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1943—and put to work in his sweatshop.
Whether it was even possible to extract Jews
from ’43 Germany seems dubious, but so is
the eye-rolling of Abe that greets Moishe’s
Holocaust story. It’s only 1958—too soon for
jokes about being bored by the Holocaust.
Joel has his own dream, of being a
standup comedian; Midge, ever-supportive,
gets him better start times at the renowned
Gaslight Café by using her brisket to bribe
the manager. Club fixture Susie (the causti-
cally funny Alex Borstein) looks askance at
the whole Maisel family shtick, but her tune
will change: In the wake of Joel’s departure,
Midge knocks back too much kosher wine,
stumbles down to the Gaslight, up onto its
stage and delivers an improvised, stream-of-
consciousness rant that kills, and ends with
her flashing her breasts. Enter the cops, who
Gary Oldman,
center, stars
as Winston
Churchill.
FILM REVIEW | By Joe Morgenstern
ECCENTRIC, MAGNETIC
LEADERSHIP
THE FIRST GLIMPSE we get of Winston
Churchill in “Darkest Hour” doesn’t flatter
him, and isn’t meant to. He’s an unkempt
old man in pajamas and a pink bathrobe, sit-
ting in bed, cigar in mouth, with a breakfast
tray that includes wine and a newspaper
whose pages have been ironed flat by a du-
tiful servant. “He’s a man, like any other,”
his wife says dryly, trying to reassure a new
and nervous secretary.
But he isn’t. He’s the man who will shortly
become prime minister, the man who, more
than any other, will set his nation’s course
during the early days of World War II, when
Hitler’s war machine seems unstoppable and
a Nazi invasion of Britain imminent. And
Gary Oldman, who plays Churchill, isn’t an
actor like any other. At once formidable and
self-effacing, he has inhabited and ignited an
extraordinary assortment of roles, from Sid
Vicious of the Sex Pistols to John le Carré’s
George Smiley. He’s superb in this one, a
study in eccentric but magnetic leadership,
and in masterly acting.
Much of Churchill’s audible authority re-
sides in the percussive words, and soaring
sentences, of his formal oratory. Mr. Old-
man’s interpretations of the great man’s
speeches elevate this film, which was di-
rected by Joe Wright from a screenplay by
Anthony McCarten. Churchill also does spon-
taneous battle with his political rivals in Par-
liament during a succession of debates that
are shamelessly overwrought, as staged by
Mr. Wright, though enjoyable all the same.
Yet most of “Darkest Hour” plays out in
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already have Lenny Bruce in a patrol car
outside. Midge’s career as a transgressive
artist and possible First Amendment icon is
under way. So is her partnership with Susie,
who knows genius when she sees it topless.
Ms. Brosnahan is, again, delightful. “Mrs.
Maisel” is breathlessly paced, the set design
is sumptuous and there are certain perform-
ers, like Caroline Aaron as Joel’s mother,
who deliver genuine, believable portrayals of
familiar-seeming people. It’s a shame,
though, that the people who would most ap-
preciate the show will spend more time
scratching their heads than laughing, as
”Mrs. M” repeatedly topples off the comedic
knife edge it so eagerly wants to walk.
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grungy offices, narrow corridors and under-
ground bunkers. That’s where policy is be-
ing devised, and where Churchill’s uncer-
tainties and doubts are exposed to the dim
light of night. Should Britain fight to the
bitter end, as he believes with all his heart
and most of his soul, or should the govern-
ment explore peace talks with the devouring
monster in Berlin, as Neville Chamberlain
and his allies in appeasement insist?
The film succeeds at the elusive task of
portraying Churchill’s spiritual and political
isolation as Europe is engulfed. With the wis-
dom of hindsight we know that negotiations
with Hitler would have been futile, as well as
suicidal, and that Churchill advocated the
only correct path. It’s moving, then, to see
him struggling with himself, before anyone
else. And it’s surprising, though the filmmak-
ers claim they’re on firm factual ground, to
be told that it was Churchill who initiated
Operation Dynamo, the civilian flotilla that
evacuated Allied troops from Dunkirk.
A word about appearance, as it relates to
essence. Richly satisfying as Mr. Oldman’s
performance is, he wasn’t born, as the
phrase has it, to play the role. He doesn’t
have a pudgy face, and he isn’t a corpulent
man of 65, as Churchill was at the beginning
of World War II. Enter Kazuhiro Tsuji, the
legendary prosthetic designer and makeup
artist. Old-age makeup can wreck a film if it
isn’t done well; see Billy Crystal’s “Mr. Sat-
urday Night.” Mr. Tsuji’s transformation of
Gary Oldman’s physiognomy is subtle, since
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THEATER REVIEW

A Grown-Up ‘Peter Pan’

Tapping into its ambiguous, disturbing and surreal aspects
BY EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
THOSE OF US who can recall
a black-and-white televised
Mary Martin, as Peter Pan,
being held aloft by a visible
wire in the now-classic musi-
cal might assume that J.M.
Barrie’s original play (first
staged in 1904) was also
about children—and for them
as well. Barrie, after all, came
to maturity in the late Victo-
rian era as new forms of chil-
dren’s literature arose. And
Barrie himself noted that his
entwines herself in his arms.
She is a mother who, in this
reimagining, clearly once had
an experience with Peter like
Wendy is about to have. In
fact, so haunted is Mrs. Dar-
ling by her Never-Land past
that she reproduces it in sex-
ual fantasies with Mr. Darling
(Mr. Tucker), who obligingly
wears green tights and a
green felt hat. As for Wendy
(Kelley Curran, vulnerable and
commanding), she lies fully
atop Peter when reattaching
his severed shadow, her posi-
tion not really one associated
roles really are variations of
each other, and that so much
of adulthood involves role-
play. Peter Pan, frightened by
playing out a parental fantasy
with Wendy as mother, wants
reassurance: “It is only pre-
tend, isn’t it, that I am their
father?” The reassurance may
be that so much of the real is
also pretend—or we would
like it to be, which is why we
envy children.
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play was an attempt to evoke
the sensibility of childhood.
Credit the theater com-
pany Bedlam, then, with rec-
ognizing that the original
work is far more ambiguous,
disturbing and surreal than
it might seem, that despite
drawing on children’s adven-
ture stories (about pirates,
Indians, sea creatures, or
magical lands far, far away)
and despite its title charac-
ter, whose name has now be-
come associated with a re-
fusal to relinquish childhood,
“Peter Pan” is really about
adults—their longing for
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as a contemporary child, ig- Journal’s Critic-at-Large. Zuzanna Szadkowski and Brad Heberlee in Bedlam’s production of ‘Peter Pan.’
noring Wendy so he can play
videogames. But there might
have been intriguing results
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struggle with demands that
Peter perversely avoids.
Bedlam has been ac-
claimed since its founding in
2012 for rethinking classic
stagecraft. Actors play multi-
ple roles. And the drama is
stripped of accouterments to
lay bare its empathic essence.
The company has presented
such plays as Shaw’s “Saint
Joan” and Shakespeare’s
“Hamlet” and now, under the
direction of Eric Tucker, one
of the founders and the com-
pany’s artistic director, it has
distilled Barrie’s cast of 25
actors down to six, who
morph into multiple roles
(and even into each other) as
this continuous hour-and-40-
minute show unfolds.
It isn’t really a performance
of the play; it is a remaking of
it, set as if in a tacky subur-
ban backyard with an inflated
pool (design by John McDer-
mott), and punctuated by mu-
sic from sources including a
spaghetti western, “Citizen
Kane” and Mozart. It also rad-
ically reorganizes the text, so
it is not really for children at
all. Unfortunately, the result is
more interesting to think
about than to experience in
real time.
The most important trans-
formation is that Barrie’s play-
ful allusions to Peter Pan’s
sexual innocence—Peter
doesn’t know what a kiss is
and assumes it is a thimble
Wendy gives him—are here
put aside: Pan, living up to his
name (and mercurially rei-
magined by Brad Heberlee),
has some of the sensual long-
ing of a nonchild and even in-
spires erotic fantasies in Mrs.
Darling (intriguingly portrayed
by Zuzanna Szadkowski), who
for the receding
world of childhood
mately confines himself to a
dog kennel. And the charac-
ters in Never-Land—the pi-
rates, the Indians (edited out
in deference to contempo-
rary sensitivities), the mer-
maids—indulge in abduction
and are possessed by obses-
sion. Barrie himself, who in
ordinary life engaged in
some peculiar behavior—in-
cluding perhaps deliberately
altering a dead friend’s will
in order to become guardian
to her five children (for
whom he had written this
play)—clearly knew some-
thing about these matters.
But this production takes
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some of the play’s more subtle WARM YOUR HEART
HEART.”
aspects—the way, for example, – SUSAN WLOSZCZYNA,
the father figure is embodied
not only by Mr. Darling but
Hook and Peter—and makes
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them literal. It bluntly ensures
we see how similar various
IN PERFECT ACCORD WITH CHRISTMAS ITSELF.”
– GARY GOLDSTEIN,
events are, even repeating the
opening domestic dialogue
throughout the play, spoken “A MAGICAL JOURNEY INTO
by varying characters. The
point is driven home when it
THEE STORY-BEHIND-THE-STORY
STORY BEHIND THE
might have instead insinuated
itself.
OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL.”
– NEIL POND,
We are also meant to be
unsettled. Wendy’s sibling
John is personified by the
hulking, portly Edmund
Lewis; her youngest brother,
Michael, is played by Susan-
nah Millonzi as a kind of
magical sprite. In practice,
though, much turns tedious.
In order to get what is hap-
pening, we have to keep the
original steadily in mind.
Perhaps one point of Bed-
lam’s remake is that these

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his facial prosthesis moves
and even seems to breathe in
a lifelike way, yet so com-
plete as to be unnoticeable.
Another few words about
derailment and misappropria-
tion. “Darkest Hour” goes
temporarily off the rails when
Churchill ventures into the
Underground to learn what
ordinary Britons think he
should do. The sequence is
of Churchill, as the movie has
it, that “he mobilized the
English language and sent it
into battle.” It was Edward R.
Murrow, and he said it in
1954, almost a decade after
the end of the war.
Those are small matters,
though, in a film that informs,
and even inspires, while it en-
tertains. Lily James is quietly
touching as Elizabeth Layton,
the secretary Churchill tries,
and fails, to tyrannize. Kristin
Scott Thomas is fine as Win-
ston’s loving, long-suffering
wife, Clementine. “I’m getting
Based on the inspiring true story.
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effective, in a cheesy, manipu- the job,” he tells her early on, AND SOME MILD
LANGUAGE.

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in its synthetic feel-good take over from Chamberlain,

echoes of Frank Capra. And
shame on all concerned for
misappropriating a great
phrase from a great Yank. It
wasn’t Chamberlain who said
“because the ship is sinking.”
That may have been so, but
thanks in large measure to
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SPORTS
COLLEGE FOOTBALL

The Only Rivalry That Matters

Other games this weekend are merely the undercard for the Iron Bowl, which has become the sport’s marquee annual matchup
BY ANDREW BEATON
AND BEN COHEN

We’d like to express our sincere

apologies to any fans of Michigan
and Ohio State, Florida and Florida
State, Ole Miss and Mississippi
State, Oklahoma and Texas, Wash-
ington and Washington State and
the dozens of other schools that
claim ownership of the best rivalry
in college football.
But it’s time to acknowledge
what the last decade has made
clear. There is no longer any de-
bate. The most important, most in-
sane and most just-about-every-
thing rivalry is Alabama versus
Auburn.
Here’s a brief list of the insanity
surrounding recent Iron Bowls:
There was the 2009 game when
Alabama needed a wild fourth-
quarter drive to stay undefeated
en route to its first national title
under Nick Saban. There was the
2010 game when Auburn had an
even wilder second-half comeback
on the road to its own national
championship behind a phenom
named Cam Newton. There was
the 2013 game that ended on the
single wildest play in the sport’s
history. All that happened in be-
tween was the statewide ruckus
that resulted from an Alabama fan

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calling into a local radio show and
bragging about poisoning trees on
a hallowed part of Auburn’s cam-
pus that fans toilet-paper in cele-
bration of big wins.
But there is a better reason that
Alabama and Auburn’s annual ri-
valry game is unlike any other this
weekend. It really does matter the Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts, right, tries to break a tackle by Auburn’s
most: The winner of the last 10
Iron Bowls, including this year’s,
Iron Fist Johnathan Ford during last year’s Iron Bowl. The Crimson Tide won 30-12.
How the winner of the Iron Bowl fared that season:
on the last weekend of the regular tween Michigan and Ohio State, years. But they were only exciting
season has positioned itself to win YEAR IRON BOWL WINNER RESULT for example, dates all the way back because Texas hasn’t exactly been
the national title. 2009 #2 Alabama 26-21 Beat Texas in National Championship to 1979. Bo Schembechler was worthy of the name Texas lately.
Auburn has won two of those 2010 #2 Auburn 28-27 Beat Oregon in National Championship coaching Michigan. Woody Hayes Notre Dame-USC actually had
Iron Bowls. The Tigers played for 2011 #2 Alabama 42-14 Beat LSU in National Championship had retired from Ohio State the some spice this year. Then again,
the national title in both seasons. 2012 #2 Alabama 49-0 Beat Notre Dame in National Championship year before. Harbaugh and Urban the high-point for these two teams
Alabama has won the other seven. 2013 #4 Auburn 34-28 Lost to Florida St. in National Championship Meyer weren’t coaches. They were lately was Notre Dame earning the
The Crimson Tide made the South- high-school students. right to be humiliated by Alabama
2014 #2 Alabama 55-44 Lost to Ohio St. in Sugar Bowl
eastern Conference title game, Col- Florida vs. Florida State hasn’t in the national championship.
lege Football Playoff or national 2015 #2 Alabama 29-13 Beat Clemson in National Championship been this irrelevant in more than a But the Iron Bowl is here to de-
championship every time. 2016 #1 Alabama 30-12 Lost to Clemson in National Championship half-century. The last time they liver again. It seems unlikely that
The last time mere bragging Source: Sports-Reference; WSJ met when both schools were under either team can afford to lose an-
rights were at stake in the Iron .500, as they are this year, was in other game and still win the na-
Bowl was 2007. That was Saban’s 1959. The winner of Saturday’s tional championship. Which means
first year back in college football. Auburn is surging and ranked No. only upset the No. 1 team in the game will have a claim to be the this is essentially the beginning of
It was so long ago that no one had 6 with a chance to play for the country, Georgia, earlier this fifth-best team in the state of Flor- a four-round College Football Play-
even bothered to notice that a SEC championship now. And no- month but actually beat them so ida—maybe. off for both teams.
quirky Stanford football coach body in Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Sta- badly that they’re now ahead of The Egg Bowl on Thursday was There’s only one theoretical
named Jim Harbaugh seemed to dium this weekend needs to be re- the Bulldogs in the rankings de- a fairly rotten matchup, too. The game this year that could possibly
have an odd fascination with khaki minded about the way that game spite having one more loss. only tension heading into the be more interesting than the Iron
pants. ended—with Chris Davis returning But let’s put this glorious 10- game was Ole Miss fans wondering Bowl. It would have the Crimson
The matchup on Saturday feels a missed field goal 109 yards as year run in context before what- if Mississippi State was secretly Tide playing the only team they
an awful lot like the classic they time expired in the most incredi- ever happens on Saturday over- behind the downfall of ousted might care about beating more
played in 2013. Alabama was unde- ble play most had ever seen. whelms any iota of perspective. coach Hugh Freeze. And it’s been than Auburn. That school also
feated and ranked No. 1 then; Ala- Alabama has the 11-0 record of And the easiest way to understand more than 50 years since either wears orange and also calls them-
bama is undefeated and ranked No. past Alabama teams, but injuries this golden age of the Iron Bowl is team won the SEC anyway. selves the Tigers and also has
1 now. Auburn was surging and to key players have left the Crim- to compare the rivalry with others. The Red River rivalry between played Alabama the last two sea-
ranked No. 4 with a chance to play son Tide more vulnerable than The list of nine games with Texas and Oklahoma produced sons: defending national champion
for the SEC championship then; usual. Auburn, meanwhile, not championship implications be- some exciting upsets in recent Clemson.

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The Modern Epic of Denunciation
By Crispin Sartwell
H
omer told the story of
ancient Greece in the
“Iliad,” Virgil of Rome
in the “Aeneid,” John Milton
of the fall of man in “Paradise
Lost,” and Alexander Pope of
18th-century England in the
“Dunciad.” If we had a poet of
that scope, he might well title
his epic of contemporary
America the “Denunciad.”
We seem to have entered a
period of nonstop mutual de-
nunciation. This is particu-
larly useful to the media,
which can fill pages and air-
time with nonevents that re-
porters and pundits invent
and then cover. It is useful,
too, in providing simple
moral guidelines by which a
person can establish superior
virtue without having to do
anything.
People have quickly culti-
vated the skill. It once took
48 hours for a politician to
castigate a member of his
own party for ancient harass-
ment or an untoward tweet.
Yet Democratic condemna-
tions of Al Franken began
flowing within minutes of the
story’s breaking. It became a
sort of competition, a contest
of moral appearances. Some
even condemned Mr. Franken
for his own condemnation of
Harvey Weinstein. Well, who
demanded that scripted hy-
pocrisy from him in the first
place?
Pundits speculate that Re-
publicans would prefer Roy
Moore to lose his Senate race
An Egyptian Goes to Israel
HOUSES OF Thousands of But this story came to a in Israel, where his upper- Some continue to harbor a
WORSHIP years ago, crushing end for most Jews in middle class parents had to bitterness that drives them to
By Haisam Abraham and
Hassanein Sarah went
from Israel
to Egypt. So
did Jacob and his sons. In my
lifetime, I have made the re-
verse journey, traveling from
Egypt to Israel by way of the
U.S. During my travels I
quickly discovered that the
presence of the Jewish people
in Arab lands did not end with
the Exodus.
As a child in Egypt, my
image of my Jewish country-
men was shaped by the nu-
merous Egyptian television
dramas that depicted them as
spies, thieves and fifth col-
umnists. I never knew any
Jewish people personally.
Naturally it came as a shock
when, during my first visit to
Israel in 2014, I met a man
who spoke to me in perfect
Iraqi Arabic, laced generously
with profanity. He introduced
me to the concept of “Miz-
rahi Jews,” or those from the
eastern lands.
For more than a thousand
years the Mizrahi Jews lived
and thrived in a wide swath
of land, from Morocco to In-
dia and Central Asia. Some
arrived in biblical times while
others came after their expul-
sion from Spain in 1492. Of-
ten treated as second-class
citizens, they nonetheless cre-
ated a culture as diverse and
distinctive as the places in
which they settled.
Rename a Brand, or Brand a Name?
By Gregg Opelka
‘W
hat’s in a name?”
asks Shakespeare’s
love-struck heroine
Juliet Capulet. If you ask Vic-
tor Luis, chief executive officer
of luxury retail brand Coach,
the answer is “Plenty.”
The company has an-
nounced that beginning this
month it will do business
under the new name Tapes-
try. The move, Mr. Luis
claims, better reflects the
expanding company, which
recently acquired shoe re-
tailer Stuart Weitzman and
Coach’s erstwhile rival Kate
Spade. Coach investors quickly
voiced their opinion of the re-
christening, sending shares
lower by nearly 3% the day of
the announcement.
Such corporate name
changes aren’t uncommon,
but they often experience ini-
tial pushback from the public.
Steve Jobs’s 2007 decision to
shorten Apple Computer’s
name was brilliant both for
its succinctness and its accu-
racy. On the other hand,
apart from Wall Street ana-
lysts, who calls Google’s par-
ent company Alphabet?
because, if he wins, he will be
hung around their necks for
years. They will be called
upon repeatedly to denounce
him, repudiate him, distance
themselves from him. Like
Odysseus, they will be on a
long, difficult, epic journey.
Unlike the “Odyssey,” how-
ever, their story will have no
end or point.
The media drives the
story, but Americans
are all caught up in
the moral drama.
What mainly drives the
events of the “Denunciad,” as
the gods do the “Odyssey,” is
the media, which has discov-
ered an endless fount of
news—a sort of fire hydrant
of youth. Suppose that Person
X makes an inappropriate re-
mark, and you are a news di-
rector charged with covering
the story. By itself, it’s liable
to fade pretty quickly, yet
there are 24 hours of live up-
dates to fill.
But there is hope: Did Pres-
ident Trump denounce the re-
mark by Person X? Did he do
so quickly enough? Did he do
so in the rigidly mechanical
terms demanded? What about
Senator Y? Did he denounce it
full-throatedly? Did he say,
verbatim, that “this is not who
we are as Americans”?
Suddenly the first story has
spawned an infinite number
Arab lands in 1948, when
states like Yemen and Libya
responded to the creation of
the state of Israel by forcing
out their Jewish populations.
Since 2014, the Israeli govern-
ment has designated Nov.
30—the day in 1947 when the
United Nations voted to parti-
tion Palestine into Jewish and
Arab states—as the “Day to
Mark the Departure and Ex-
pulsion of Jews from the Arab
Countries and Iran.”
When I attended graduate
school at Tel Aviv University,
I befriended Egyptian Jews
who were good, kindhearted
people. They invited me to
their Shabbat dinners, where
we ate delicious Egyptian
dishes, shared our love of Ar-
abic music and culture, and
discussed politics. I felt at
home.
In the heart of Tel Aviv I
met Rachmo, a vivacious 73-
year-old Egyptian Jew whose
restaurant served falafel
made of beans in the Egyp-
tian style, rather than the Is-
raeli-Levantine version made
of chickpeas. Still a proud
Egyptian, he had mounted
pictures of the pyramids and
the sphinx at the entrance of
his shop.
In perfect Egyptian Arabic,
he described the trauma of
immigrating to Israel with his
family at age 13. After escap-
ing persecution in Egypt, his
family was placed in a camp
Curiously, one industry in
which name rebranding is
fairly common is the Ameri-
can musical theater. Most
new musicals are adapted
from a pre-existing, usually
successful, work—a novel, a
stage play, a film, a television
show. Rare indeed is the mu-
sical that boasts an original
Some need facelifts.
Others ain’t broke
and don’t need fixin’.
story, like the 2002 Tony-
winner “Urinetown.” Far
more often creators of new
musicals seek to capitalize on
the popularity of a recent fa-
miliar crowd-pleaser. While
adapting from a successful
source is no guarantee of a
hit, it does tilt the odds in
your favor, a fact not lost on
producers.
Lately, Broadway musicals
based on movies and TV
shows have tended to retain
the title of their source for
one simple reason—it sells
tickets. “The Addams Family,”
“The Producers,” “The Full
OPINION
of others. Every minute that
Mr. Trump or Senator Y fails
to produce the denunciation
constitutes a new and trou-
bling development. But then
we have a question for Gov-
ernor Z: Does he condemn
Mr. Trump’s failure to con-
demn Person X’s remark?
Why does he think Senator Y,
an old friend, is taking so
long? How about Movie Star
A? Did he condemn the non-
condemnation?
It’s a potentially endless
circle. Every time someone in
public life slips up, out come
squads of reporters, not to
cover the event, but to ask
every other findable famous
person whether he or she
will condemn it in exactly the
prescribed terms within the
permitted time frame—and
then whether they condemn
one another for failing the
test.
This does strike me as a
fairly new phenomenon, at
least the thoroughness with
which it is now being prose-
cuted. The people doing the
reporting—CNN is particu-
larly adamant about this—in-
sist they are merely provid-
ing facts: It is an objective
truth that Mr. Trump hadn’t
condemned Mr. Moore, or
that some senator hadn’t re-
pudiated Mr. Trump’s non-
condemnation.
But, objectively speaking,
many other things didn’t hap-
pen today either. Editors don’t
pluck other non-occurrences
from the ether and then send
people out to cover them.
work in construction to earn
a living. Living in a land set-
tled and dominated by Euro-
pean Jews, or Ashkenazim,
they often felt denigrated by
their Jewish brethren. “They
did not know that we Egyp-
tians were more cultured, po-
lite, and not troublemakers,”
he told me last year.
I was shocked to see a
man speaking perfect
Iraqi Arabic—and
therein lies a lesson.
Like many immigrant
groups, Mizrahi Jews some-
times felt the price of accep-
tance was full assimilation, or
abandoning their old culture.
Many of the succeeding gen-
erations do not speak Arabic
or observe their unique cus-
toms. One of my professors in
Tel Aviv once said in class
that as a child of Iraqi immi-
grants, he used to brag among
his peers that his father spoke
English and French. He never
mentioned Arabic.
At the same time, Mizrahi
Jews remember all too well
the discrimination they suf-
fered in the old country.
Many Iraqi and Morrocan
Jews in Israel were alive
when persecution was at its at the Washington Institute
worst in the 1940s and ’50s. for Near East Policy.
Monty,” “Legally Blonde” and
others all proudly proclaim
their origin.
This wasn’t always the
case. Only the most avid fans
of Rodgers and Hammer-
stein’s groundbreaking 1943
musical “Oklahoma!” know
the legendary tuner was
based on Lynn Riggs’s 1930
Broadway play “Green Grow
the Lilacs.” Fewer still have
read it. Good thing Riggs re-
ceived a healthy royalty for
his contribution because Rod-
gers and Hammerstein’s “Sur-
rey With the Fringe on Top”
(immortalized in their fa-
mous song) promptly drove
Riggs’s delightful home-state
homage into permanent box
office oblivion.
In the golden era of the
musical, renaming was the
norm. Ernst Lubitsch’s mem-
orable film “The Shop
Around the Corner” (itself
adapted from Miklós László’s
1937 Hungarian play “Par-
fumerie”) became “She Loves
Me,” named for a sprightly
song from Jerry Bock and
Sheldon Harnick’s hit musi-
cal. When Alan Jay Lerner
and Frederick Loewe musical-
ized George Bernard Shaw’s
Why is Mr. Trump waiting so
long to condemn the Hells An-
gels rally in Nowheresville?
The president hasn’t de-
nounced North Korea in the
past six hours: Does that sig-
nal a change in policy?
What the “Denunciad” de-
mands, rather, is a public
performance of self-righ-
teousness—a moral dramati-
zation. The show is rigidly
stylized, so the audience
knows what to expect. It’s a
contest to see who condemns
whom, first, hardest, and
with the most clichés. Sincer-
ity is precluded or irrelevant,
though some sort of simula-
tion of it is required.
I ask in all seriousness: Is
this making anything better?
Is it making us better? Is it
doing anything to address any
substantive problem? Amer-
ica’s very own national epic,
like England’s “Dunciad,”
seems mostly to deliver les-
sons about how concerned we
are with keeping up appear-
ances and establishing some
sort of moral pecking order.
Unlike Alexander Pope, how-
ever, the people composing
the “Denunciad” can’t write
at all.
Mr. Sartwell teaches at
Dickinson College in Carlisle,
Pa. His most recent book is
“Entanglements: A System of
Philosophy” (SUNY Press,
2017).
Kimberley A. Strassel is
away.
support Israel’s far-right par-
ties. “The Ashkenazim will
never understand the Arabs
as we do,” a friend recalled
his grandmother’s admoni-
tion. “They only know about
the Holocaust.”
But today the landscape
has changed as Israeli society
becomes more inclusive. East-
ern Jewish culture is honored.
Intermarriage between Ashke-
nazim and Mizrahim is a non-
issue. The Mizrahi Jew Avi
Gabbay heads the Israeli La-
bor Party, the current main
opposition party and historic
domain of Ashkenazi Jews go-
ing back to the Zionist ideo-
logues of Europe.
As a Muslim, I am acutely
aware of the hundreds of
thousands of Palestinian refu-
gees who have been left to
languish in camps for de-
cades, unwelcome in the lands
of their Arab and Muslim
neighbors. Most recently, Syr-
ian refugees are isolated in
tent cities or face discrimina-
tion when they try to inte-
grate into new countries. The
successful absorption of Jews
from eastern countries in Is-
rael—across linguistic and
cultural barriers—is a mod-
ern-day success story that de-
serves to be remembered, cel-
ebrated and emulated.
Mr. Hassanein is a fellow
play about a Cockney flower
girl and a phonetics fanatic,
the original title “Pygmalion”
was deemed too obscure a
mythological reference. Exit
the enamored Greek sculptor,
enter “My Fair Lady,” of Lon-
don Bridge nursery rhyme
fame.
Thornton Wilder himself
rebranded his original play
“The Merchant of Yonkers,”
remounting it years later un-
der the new name “The
Matchmaker.” Soon it re-
emerged as “Hello, Dolly!”
Jerry Herman’s instanta-
neously world-famous song
was simply too infectious not
to become the musical’s title.
Hungarian playwright Ferenc
Molnar’s play “Liliom”
whirled into Broadway his-
tory as “Carousel.” And when
Cole Porter decided to brush
up his Shakespeare, “The
Taming of the Shrew” turned
into the tersely-titled tuner
“Kiss Me, Kate.”
Maybe someday someone
will turn the dictionary into a
musical. They could call it
“Alphabet.”
Mr. Opelka is a musical
theater composer-lyricist.
Friday, November 24, 2017 | A17
BOOKSHELF | By Anna Mundow
Hard-Boiled
In California
The Ross Macdonald Collection
Edited by Tom Nolan
(Library of America, 2,618 pages, $112.50)
O
ver the past decade or so, the hard-boiled detective
novel, once American to the core, has acquired a variety
of accents and identities. There are Scottish, Nordic and
Japanese versions, for example, and a Russian series involving
a penguin. So widespread is the allure of the slouch hat and
cigarette, the blonde and the bottle, that even “mainstream”
writers like John Banville and Thomas Pynchon have tried
them on for size. Not that this is anything new. “There has
been so much of this sort of thing,” Raymond Chandler
complained in “The Simple Art of Murder” (1944), “that if a
character in a detective story says, ‘Yeah,’ the author is auto-
matically a Hammett imitator.”
Chandler went on to argue that Dashiell Hammett and his
contemporaries had founded a literary movement when, in
the 1920s, they started to write “realistic mystery fiction.” He
was right. And some 70 years later, the Library of America
proved the point by publishing
the major novels of Hammett
and Chandler in superb hard-
cover omnibus editions.
Now comes the concluding
volume of the LOA edition of a
third writer—many critics say
the finest writer—of hard-boiled
American detective fiction.
“Four Later Novels” completes
“The Ross Macdonald Collec-
tion,” a three-volume set that
also contains “Four Novels of the
1950s” (2015) and “Three Novels
of the Early 1960s” (2016), all
scrupulously edited by Tom Nolan.
(Mr. Nolan, the author of a biography of Mac-
donald, has been the crime-fiction columnist for this news-
paper since 1990.) As a gift for giving this holiday season,
the set is available in a glossy red-and-black slipcase—hand-
some, compact, and pleasing to handle.
Admirers of Ross Macdonald (1915-83) will be gratified.
New readers will be astonished, first by the world that
Macdonald creates, so immediately present that Southern
California seems to shimmer on the page. The novel “The
Underground Man” opens on “a bright September morning.
The edges of the sky had a yellowish tinge like cheap paper
darkening in the sunlight. There was no wind at all now, but
I could smell the inland desert and feel its heat.” Characters,
however minor, also materialize with startling clarity—a
motel clerk, for example, wearing “a string of fake pearls
dirtied by her neck”—while Macdonald’s protagonists,
including his recurring private detective Lew Archer, are
psychologically complex or elusive.
That kind of thing can sink a suspense narrative, but
these novels are too tightly constructed to founder. Their
dovetailed plots turn elegantly, again and again, on identity:
lost, found or faked. “My mind had been haunted for years
by an imaginary boy,” Macdonald wrote in a 1969 essay,
“whom I recognized as the darker side of my own remem-
bered boyhood. By his sixteenth year he had lived in fifty
houses and committed the sin of poverty in each of them.”
(Destitution and abandonment haunted the life of Ross
Macdonald—born Kenneth Millar, in Los Gatos, Calif.—even
after success arrived. Here, as always, the Library of
America’s chronology is invaluable.)
In his series of novels narrated by private eye
Lew Archer, Ross Macdonald explored the
mystery of identity—lost, found and fake.
This boy appears throughout Macdonald’s fiction, most
memorably in “The Galton Case,” an autobiographical master-
piece that sets Lew Archer on the trail of a missing father and
a lost son. “The lawn was the color of the ink they use to print
the serial numbers on banknotes,” Archer observes of the
Galton estate, a world away from the dingy hotel where, later,
a wine-softened blonde attests that her lover “never hurt
nobody in his life. Except me, and you expect that from any
man.” Within a few pages Macdonald does what he does in
the other 10 Lew Archer novels collected here: He transforms
conventional scenes into subtle revelations. In “The Far Side
of the Dollar,” for example, Archer contemplates a young
runaway, cornered: “I’d seen a hundred boys standing as he
was standing against cars both hot and cold, on the curb of a
street or the shoulder of a highway, while men in uniform
questioned them. The sound of the distant highway faintly
disturbed the edges of the silence I was listening to now.”
It could be an Edward Hopper painting. For Macdonald,
above all, makes us see: blood “tangled like tar” in a dead
woman’s hair; blue jays descending “like chunks of broken
sky”; men watching a wildfire “in waiting attitudes, as if by
behaving modestly and discreetly they could make the fire
stay up on the mountain and die there, like an unwanted
god.” But this is not art for art’s sake. Every image serves to
draw us deeper into the flawed lives at the heart of his
flawless mysteries. When a character in “The Far Side of the
Dollar” asks Archer why a particular detail matters, he
replies, “Because you can’t explode reality. Life hangs
together in one piece. Everything is connected with every-
thing else. The problem is to find the connections.”
In Mr. Nolan’s selection of novels—from “The Way Some
People Die” of 1951 to “The Underground Man” of 1971—
Macdonald weaves together those threads and then unspools
them; always deftly, never mechanically. And never losing
sight of the innocents: the lost boy, the courageous girl, the
haunted drifter, all making their way through “a world of
treacherous little hustlers.” On that shifting terrain, his laby-
rinthine plots keep us in queasy suspense. But it is the sheer
beauty of Macdonald’s laconic style—with its seductive
rhythms and elegant plainness—that holds us spellbound.
“Hard-boiled,” “noir,” “mystery,” it doesn’t matter what you
call it. Macdonald, with insolent grace, blows past the
barrier constructed by Dorothy Sayers between “the litera-
ture of escape” and “the literature of expression.” These
novels, triumphs of his literary alchemy, dare to be both.
Ms. Mundow writes the column “Crime and Punishment”
for the Barnes & Noble Review.
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Trump’s Dubious Trust-Busting Science, the Courts and the Public’s Interest

D
oes President Trump’s right hand know The reality is that competition in media con- Roger Pielke Jr. is wrong when he many, which Merton wrote about in
what his left is doing? Despite the Ad- tent and distribution has intensified, and tradi- writes in “A Litigious Climate Threat- his “Science and the Social Order.”
ens Scientific Norms” (op-ed, Nov. 16) Were Merton alive today he would re-
ministration’s laudable regulatory roll- tional pay-for-TV distributors including cable
that climate scientist Michael Mann’s ject Mr. Pielke’s claim that science is
back, the Justice Department companies and DirectTV are defamation lawsuit against the Na- stronger when scientists must turn
on Monday intervened in the The assault on AT&T- losing customers. AT&T has 25 tional Review Online and the Competi- the other cheek to attacks on their
fast-evolving media and broad-
band markets with an antitrust
Time Warner seems to million video subscribers,
down half a million this year.
tive Enterprise Institute is “weakening
the norms that make science robust.”
character.
PETER J. FONTAINE
lawsuit to block AT&T’s acqui- be more about politics The largest cable companies Mr. Pielke characterizes Prof. Mann’s Philadelphia
sition of Time Warner. The boast fewer than 50 million lawsuit as an improper attempt to
lawsuit misconstrues markets
than antitrust law. customers. Acceleration in “settle” a scientific debate through le- Maybe Prof. Pielke is wrong. Maybe
and undermines the rule of cord-cutting is harming con- gal action, which Mr. Pielke claims de- the scientific community should actu-
law—whether or not it was in- tent producers like Time War- viates from Robert Merton’s scientific ally encourage the use of lawsuits to
spired by the White House. ner that charge cable companies per subscrip- norms. As one of the lawyers repre- settle scientific debates, especially
senting Mr. Mann, I can say confi- ones like climate change that have
i i i tion and sell ads based on viewership.
dently that nothing could be further been politicized.
Start with the fact that the AT&T-Time War- Increased competition is forcing innovation from the truth. It is surprising that his article
ner deal is a “vertical merger,” meaning that the and consolidation in business models. Deals be- Mr. Mann’s lawsuit doesn’t squelch doesn’t mention the infamous Scopes
two companies operate in distinct markets and tween broadband and mobile providers have re- scientific debate as his case isn’t Monkey Trial of 1925, when a prevail-
don’t directly compete. Time Warner is mainly cently been floated to attract more millennials, about science but rather the latest in- ing political view (fundamentalism)
a content producer. AT&T, which also owns Di- more than half of whom stream videos on their stallment in a smear campaign to de- argued its case against the teaching of
rectTV, is mainly a distributor. phones. T-Mobile is nipping at AT&T and luring stroy his reputation through verifiably an alternative science (evolution).
Justice last sued to block a vertical merger customers by offering free Netflix. false and malicious assertions of fact Weeks before the trial, the State of
under Section 7 of the Clayton Act in 1977 in AT&T like Comcast wants to purchase con- about his professional conduct. The Tennessee had passed the Butler Act,
United States v. Hammermill Paper Co. It lost. tent and use its ability to mine user data to bet- D.C. Court of Appeals affirmed Mr. which banned the teaching of evolu-
Unlike horizontal mergers of businesses that di- ter target ads at viewers. This could help the Mann’s right to proceed holding that tion as anti-religion.
“defamatory statements that are per- The trial focused the debate be-
rectly compete, the government in vertical combined company better compete with Google sonal attacks on an individual’s hon- tween competing theories. It was the
deals must marshal evidence to prove that ver- and Facebook, which already draw 60% of digi- esty and integrity . . . if false, do not first court proceeding to be carried
tically integrated companies would reduce com- tal ad revenues in the U.S. More ad revenues enjoy constitutional protection and live on radio. It pitted the most promi-
petition and harm consumers. could also allow AT&T to reduce its prices, may be actionable.” Nor do Merton’s nent advocates directly against one
In many of the two dozen or so vertical which could impel rivals to follow. All of this scientific norms prevent scientists, another. And it drew the lines between
mergers since 1977 in which the government would make the market more competitive and like all free people, from defending the two sides starkly and compellingly.
has raised antitrust concerns, Justice negoti- offer consumers more choices. their good name through the courts if In the end, the public won. Now an-
ated a settlement imposing behavioral remedies i i i necessary. Mr. Pielke’s invitation to other scientific debate is preoccupying
to blunt speculative anti-competitive effects. So why is Justice rolling out dubious anti- muzzle scientists confronting ad ho- our national conversation. Perhaps it
That includes its 2011 approval of NBCU’s trust theories? Our guess is the populist poli- minem fallacies under the guise of is time for another “monkey trial,”
“scientific debate” would strike a this time between global warming and
merger with Comcast in which it barred the ca- tics on the left and right. Conservatives hate
grievous blow at the institution of sci- its deniers. Sometimes science is
ble giant from withholding its content from CNN, which Time Warner owns, and liberals ence by chilling free inquiry and served best when it ventures beyond
competitors. Justice hasn’t said that the Com- hate big business in general. Mr. Trump, in his thought, the bedrock of a vibrant sci- its norms.
cast restrictions were insufficient to curb anti- shoot-from-the-lip fashion, said in October entific community. This notion is as JON FOX
trust abuses, but it won’t entertain such limits 2016 when the deal was proposed that he’d try true today as it was in 1937 Nazi Ger- Linwood, N.J.
for AT&T and Time Warner. to block it. Thirteen Democratic Senators in-
Justice’s odd antitrust theory is that AT&T cluding Elizabeth Warren, Al Franken and Ber-
“would use its control over Time Warner’s valu- nie Sanders in January wrote a letter to AT&T
able and highly popular networks to hinder its CEO Randall Stephenson and Time Warner Small Businesses Embrace ‘Good Enough’ Tax
rivals.” Supposedly AT&T would threaten to CEO Jeffrey Bewkes fretting about the “consol-
withhold Time Warner content from its diverse idation in the telecommunications and media Regarding your editorial “A Solu- the oh-so-tired talking-point rheto-
tion for Ron Johnson” (Nov. 17): The ric—“this is a bill for the rich” or
competitors to force them to pay more. Distrib- industries.”
Senate tax bill’s 17.4% small-business “this is a bill that is a scam”—and
utors who don’t pony up would thus lose mil- Antitrust Division Assistant Attorney Gen- pass-through deduction doesn’t just provide real solutions for real people
lions of customers, which Justice claims would eral Makan Delrahim, who lobbied for Comcast apply to the proposed top individual instead of blind obstruction and
sign up for AT&T. in 2010 and worked in the White House coun- tax rate. The Hatch Amendment to party-line fear mongering.
No doubt AT&T and Time Warner wish they sel’s office earlier this year, said last year that the bill means that all small business STEVEN B. CARUSO
enjoyed that much market clout. But Time War- he didn’t see the deal “as a major antitrust pass-throughs earning $500,000 Darien, Conn.
ner accounts for less than 10% of broadcast and problem.” That’s why his about-face since his ($250,000 if filing individually) or
cable viewership while DirectTV makes up just confirmation in September is so curious and less can take advantage of this de- Congress’s unseemly haste to pass
20% of the national multi-channel video pro- seemingly political. duction as well. a bill—any bill—by the end of the
gramming market. CNN and HBO hardly provide Mr. Trump said again on Tuesday that “I’ve According to the Tax Foundation, year has created situations where
97% of pass-throughs earn less than taxes on everyday corporate transac-
invaluable or indispensable programming, and always felt that was a deal that’s not good for
this $500,000 threshold, meaning the tions are significantly increased. For
in any case Time Warner would be giving up the country,” adding that “I’m not going to get overwhelming majority of the na- example, the House bill repeals a
hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue if it involved. It’s litigation.” Yet uttering his opin- tion’s small businesses would see longstanding provision that a corpo-
withheld its content from other distributors. As ion feeds inferences of political interference needed and long-overdue tax relief ration pays no tax on contributions
for raising prices, Time Warner can do that now and a willingness to bend antitrust law in ways from the bill. Small businesses appre- to its capital. As a result of the new
if it can get away with it. Merging with AT&T that undermine business confidence. ciate Sen. Johnson’s advocacy for provision, if a 99% shareholder con-
hardly gives it more ability to do so. The good news is that AT&T plans to defend even greater relief, but we don’t want tributes $100 to a corporation to
Justice’s even stranger claim is that the the merger in court, and a trial should be expe- his quest to scuttle the significant fund its operations, the corporation
merger would “impede disruptive competi- dited given Justice’s drawn-out investigation. small-business tax relief that already now has to pay tax on that $100. This
tion” from “emerging online competition.” Justice will have to demonstrate that AT&T’s exists. is a significant change in the law that
Emerging? That adjective will surprise Net- market power exceeds that of its various com- ALFREDO ORTIZ has received little attention and will
President and CEO make it more difficult to fund every-
flix, with its 110 million subscribers and more petitors and that it would use its clout to harm-
Job Creators Network day operations. Both the House and
than two dozen original shows; or Amazon, ful effect. That’s a high bar that Justice can’t Washington Senate bills contain numerous other
with its original TV series and movies and its meet on all the available evidence. examples of provisions that Congress
90 million Prime members. Google this year A government defeat could set a healthy It is astonishing that not a single appears not to have thought through
launched an over-the-top streaming service precedent that reduces Justice’s leverage and Democrat in the House found any- that will increase the tax bills for
that bundles 40 channels for $35 a month. latitude to restrict mergers using market theo- thing in the bill that would benefit a many companies.
These are large and thriving vertically inte- ries that respond to populist politics rather single constituent and cause them to ROBERT M. GORDON
grated companies. than the rule of law. support this bill. It is time to drop Wilmette, Ill.

ObamaCare’s Death Payments SALT in the Wounds of the Profligate States

O
Jonathan D. Kaufelt (Letters, Nov. erosion can only be managed by state
bamaCare has caused hard-to-quantify duced. Yet the 30-day mortality rate increased 17) touts the progressive line that in- and local government reform. It is a
economic damage, but some of the to 8.6% from 7.2%—about 5,400 additional terstate tax competition is a barrier to free country.
law’s regulations may be lethal—liter- deaths per year. Over a one-year period the re- a more efficient (read “higher rate”) I’m happy in Arizona.
ally. Consider a Medicare hos- admission rate fell by 0.9 per- tax regime. Mr. Kaufelt laments that ROGER HERD
pital payment initiative, which A program to reduce centage points while the mor- lower-tax states erode the tax bases of Mesa, Ariz.
a new study in the Journal of hospital admissions may tality rate rose by five. In higher-tax states thereby creating an
the American Medical Associ- other words, while fewer pa- unfair “competition.” While progres-
ation Cardiology suggests may have led to more deaths. tients were being readmitted, sives see this as a bad thing, conserva- Document Those Puppies
have contributed to an in- many more were dying. tives rejoice that competitive market
Regarding Adam O’Neal’s “What
crease in deaths. forces on taxation still exist. As a resi-
The researchers hypothe- Will Tax Reform Do for Puppies?”
dent of California (individual income-
Readers are likely familiar with Obama- size that the penalties might “incentivize hos- tax rate of 9.3% starting at $53,000 in
(op-ed, Nov. 20): If history can be re-
Care’s mandate and subsidies to impel individ- pitals to ‘game’ the system, using strategies lied upon, Mr. O’Neal’s suggestion of
income), I know that the presence of
uals to obtain health insurance. But the law such as delaying admissions beyond day 30, in- extending the child tax credit to ca-
Nevada (0% income tax) and Arizona
also included monetary incentives and penal- creasing observation stays, or shifting inpa- nines would quickly usher in abuse
(top rate of 5.4%) on our border is one
ties aimed at inducing changes in health-care tient-type care to emergency departments.” aplenty. Tax filers would soon need to
of the few factors that keep the Demo-
prove proof of pet ownership. Let us
delivery and spending reductions. The govern- These tricks may end up hurting patients. crats who control the California legis-
not forget the more than seven mil-
ment rolled out these payment models nation- Hospitals with above-average readmissions lature from continuously jacking up
lion American children who vanished
ally without careful study, and they are having are also more likely to care for low-income pa- income taxes. Far from being a “race
in 1987 when the IRS required tax-
unintended side effects. tients and deal with complicated medical cases. to the bottom,” interstate tax competi-
payers to report the Social Security
A case in point is the Hospital Readmissions They are usually financially strapped due to tion and the ability of citizens to vote
numbers of dependents.
with their feet forces states to be
Reduction Program, which penalizes hospitals low Medicaid reimbursements, and the Obama- F.X. BERGMEISTER
mindful of how they tax and spend
with above-average readmissions for Medicare Care penalties may make it even harder to de- their constituents money.
Stafford, Va.
patients. Readmissions are expensive, and the liver quality care. KEN DAVENPORT
goal of the penalties is to encourage providers ObamaCare effectively enrolled Medicare San Diego
to take measures that reduce repeat hospital- patients and hospitals without their consent Pepper ...
izations—for instance, providing patients with in a mandatory policy experiment—you’ll be What an amusing letter from James
clearer discharge instructions and coordinating better off, trust us—but then neglected to Gebhard. I lived in California’s Bay
And Salt
with primary-care physicians. evaluate the adverse effects. A drug trial with Area for 25 years, Texas for 10 years THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Hospitals are graded on a curve and dunned the same results would have been shut down and was raised here in Arizona where
if their 30-day readmission rate exceeds the na- long ago. I live in retirement. I can tell you the
tional average. Hospitals can thus be penalized The JAMA researchers conclude that, “like extra tax burden California demands
isn’t worth the cost. Waste is ram-
even if they reduce readmissions. The penal- drugs and devices, public health policies
pant. The reason people flee states
ties, which are assessed as a share of hospitals’ should be tested in a rigorous fashion—most like California is pure economics.
Medicare payments, have been applied to an preferably in randomized trials—before their Comparing the “The Great Progres-
increasing number of medical conditions in- widespread adoption.” Sounds like good ad- sive Tax Escape” (Review & Outlook,
cluding knee and hip replacements. vice, but not the sort that ObamaCare archi- Nov. 14) trend to Europe, as Mr.
Liberals have touted data showing that read- tects and masters of the economic-planning Kaufelt does, is laughable. It happens
missions have fallen since the penalties took universe like Peter Orszag and Jonathan Gru- there too. Californians should stop
effect in 2013, but the JAMA researchers exam- ber are inclined to take. whining and deal with the state’s lop-
ined whether quality of care has improved as The Trump Administration is seeking to re- sided and spendthrift legislature. Tax
a result. Their observational study examined design some of ObamaCare’s payment pro-
115,245 fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries grams, including making policy experiments Letters intended for publication should
hospitalized with heart failure across the U.S. voluntary for providers. This has caused a be addressed to: The Editor, 1211 Avenue
of the Americas, New York, NY 10036,
in the four years prior to and first two years fury among those on the left who believe that or emailed to wsj.ltrs@wsj.com. Please
following implementation of the program. government coercion is the cure for all include your city and state. All letters
Researchers found that the 30-day readmis- health-care maladies. Testing incentives on are subject to editing, and unpublished
sion rate (adjusted for patient risk) declined to a small scale could prevent untold economic letters can be neither acknowledged nor “We don’t do bad things,
returned.
18.4% from 20% after the penalties were intro- harm and deaths. we’re just a bit hyper.”
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George Soros’s $18 Billion Tax Shelter
By Stephen Moore
C
ongress is still scrambling
to find ways to pay for its
tax cut, so perhaps it should
pay closer attention to last
month’s news that George
Soros had transferred $18 billion of
his fortune to a private charity that
he controls. There it will be sheltered
from the Internal Revenue Service
forever. This may be the single big-
gest tax dodge in U.S. history, yet no
one on the right or left seems to have
raised an eyebrow.
True tax reform is predicated on
the principle that all income should
be taxed at a low rate once, and only
once. But much of the wealth that Mr.
Soros spent years moving into his
The wealthy have tucked
billions into private
nonprofits—where
the IRS can’t touch it.
Open Society Foundations will never
be taxed. A gift of billions of dollars
of appreciated stock escapes any cap-
ital gains tax, and the estate tax as
well. So Mr. Soros can donate appre-
ciated stock that Open Society Foun-
dations can liquidate without the
government ever taking a cut.
There’s more. When a person do-
nates untaxed, appreciated assets to
a private foundation, he may also de-
duct up to 20% of its market value on
his personal return, carrying forward
Theresa May’s Warning for the Republican Party
London
British politics is
undergoing a re-
markable transfor-
mation, and it
isn’t Brexit. Voters
POLITICAL are steadily losing
ECONOMICS confidence in The-
resa May’s Con-
By Joseph C.
servative Party
Sternberg
when it comes to
the economy.
A poll released this month from
Opinium found that 36% of voters
trust the economic competence of
Mrs. May and her Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Philip Hammond, while
28% trust the Labour Party’s far-left
leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Sounds posi-
tive? A year ago, the same poll
found trust for Mrs. May at 44%
and Mr. Corbyn at only 18%.
The polling firm YouGov finds a
similar shift under way. The propor-
tion of respondents saying they
trust the Tories more on the econ-
omy has fallen to 33% from a high
of 40% in April and May, while the
figure for Labour has risen to 23%
from a low of 13% in February.
This worrisome trend is aston-
ishing for the party of Margaret
Thatcher, a party that still runs on
Amazon Has Everything—Except, Maybe, Santa Claus
By Bob Greene
T
here are ghosts that come out
during the holiday season.
They’re not the ghosts of peo-
ple, but of places. And it’s funny: At
certain moments, when there’s a bite
in the chill air, or the faint scent of
cinnamon and chocolate wafts out of
nowhere, those ghosts can be longed
for with the same kind of pang usu-
ally reserved for loved ones.
They once resided in just about ev-
ery city. In many cases, they were the
very heartbeats of those towns.
There was the Hecht Company in Bal-
timore. Polsky’s in Akron. Woodward
& Lothrop in the District of Columbia.
Loveman’s in Birmingham. L.S. Ayres
in Indianapolis. John A. Brown Com-
pany in Oklahoma City. Shillito’s in
Cincinnati. The Joseph Horne Com-
pany in Pittsburgh. Auerbach’s in Salt
Lake City. Bamberger’s in Newark.
Miller & Rhoads in Richmond. Hig-
bee’s in Cleveland. Donaldson’s in
Minneapolis:
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This double write-off may be
the sweetest deal in the tax
code.
The donors also can retain
control of the money within
the private foundation for
years or even decades before it
is disbursed. Since the founda-
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Congress should stop ignor-
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The super rich have already
poured hundreds of billions
into private foundations, but
the figure could soon be in the
trillions. Mark Zuckerberg has
pledged to give away 99% of his Face-
book shares, currently estimated to
be worth somewhere around $70 bil-
lion, and much of it will go to a foun-
dation his family controls. Bill Gates
and Warren Buffett have each put
roughly $30 billion tax-free into the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
This has left the foundation so flush
that it spent $500 million on a 12-
acre, 900,000-square-foot office com-
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ees. This is philanthropy?
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aly in our otherwise progressive tax
code: The top 1% of earners pay an
its record, after the 2008 financial
panic, of delivering the highest GDP
growth of any major European
economy.
It’s even stranger when you con-
sider who the Tories are running
against. Mr. Corbyn promises to re-
nationalize railways and utilities,
introduce rent controls and blow
out the budget. Brits know that
agenda doesn’t work, which is why
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years under Thatcher, Tony Blair,
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ministers in between.
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partly in the Brexit process’s slow
and chaotic unfolding, which is des-
tined to annoy and alienate large
numbers of voters. It also lies only
partly in Mrs. May’s acts of political
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ing an election in June in which the
Conservatives lost seats.
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under Mrs. May, and Mr. Cameron
before her, the Tories forgot how to
talk about economic growth, its
causes and benefits. In line with a
Tory “modernization” movement
that’s been percolating in various
forms since before Thatcher even
The long-gone, locally owned de-
partment stores that once proudly
anchored America’s downtowns and,
especially in November and Decem-
ber, played such a role in making
home feel like home.
Where did they go? Swallowed up
by national chains and renamed,
some of them. Others were pushed
out of business by discount giants
and freeway-exit malls. A few just
faded away.
Today the big growth is in online
shopping. Some of those old depart-
ment stores filled a city block and
more, bursting with every manner of
merchandise. But no brick-and-mortar
store, however massive, carries more
goods than Amazon. Macy’s, which
purchased, renamed and homogenized
many of the classic local stores, began
2017 with an announcement that it
would be closing 68 locations.
The idiosyncrasies of the local
stores were what endeared them to
their customers. Your town’s leading
department store was as personal as
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OPINION
effective tax rate of 23%, but the top
0.001% pay only 18%.
Mr. Buffett has sanctimoniously de-
nounced the fact that he pays a lower
effective tax rate than his secretary.
His suggestion is that Congress raise
taxes on capital gains. But even if the
tax rates were lifted, say, to 50%, Mr.
Buffett still wouldn’t have to pay it on
the tens of billions of dollars he puts
into private foundations, and he would
still be able to deduct a fifth of that
contribution on future tax returns.
This tax favoritism might be de-
fensible to promote genuine philan-
thropic activities. Many billionaires,
such as the Gateses and David Koch,
have heroically donated to fight can-
cer and malaria or provide relief to
hurricane and earthquake victims.
But others, including Mr. Soros and
Michael Bloomberg, have turned pri-
vate foundations into massive de facto
left office, today’s Tories by and
large avoid mentioning growth on
its own. Instead they talk about how
to redistribute economic gains more
competently than Labour could.
This is why Mrs. May’s manifesto
before the June election promised a
strong economy followed by a huge
“but” about an “equitable” distribu-
tion of the benefits of growth. It
then focused primarily on higher
If the main political
task is divvying up an
unchanging pie, the left
will always win.
minimum wages, gender pay gaps,
and caps on energy prices. Mr. Ham-
mond eschews further cuts to the
corporate tax rate and instead
pitches a Keynesian industrial strat-
egy as the path to Brexit success.
But if the main political task is
divvying up an unchanging pie, the
left will always win. Labour, along
with Europe’s other Socialist par-
ties and America’s Democrats,
bring to that knife fight the gun of
a fingerprint. You could roam the
world, but if you came home for the
holidays and walked inside, you felt
centered. Many stores were run by
someone whose family name was on
the door: storekeepers in every sense
of the word, sometimes with carna-
tions in their suit lapels as they
strolled the floors.
Those proprietors were responsi-
ble for every cranny. Nothing was
vendored out; there were no bou-
tiques sublet to outside concerns. And
the array of what they offered, under
one downtown roof: cameras, lug-
gage, baseball bats, paint, trombones,
jewelry, living-room furniture, phono-
graph records (with private booths
against the wall to allow a trial lis-
ten). The stores had their own por-
trait studios, their own travel agen-
cies, their own rare-stamp counters.
An old newspaperman friend of mine
named Mike Harden, who didn’t grow
up in the fanciest of circumstances,
once said that as a boy at Christmas-
time, standing outside the F&R Laza-
rus store in downtown Columbus, he
would look in the display windows,
Notable & Quotable: Haidt on Identity Politics
Jonathan Haidt delivering the
2017 Wriston Lecture to the Man-
hattan Institute, Nov. 15:
Today’s identity politics . . .
teaches the exact opposite of what
we think a liberal arts education
should be. When I was at Yale in the
1980s, I was given so many tools for
understanding the world. By the
time I graduated, I could think
about things as a utilitarian or as a
Kantian, as a Freudian or a behav-
iorist, as a computer scientist or as
a humanist. I was given many lenses
to apply to any given question or
problem.
But what do we do now? Many
students are given just one lens—
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lobbying operations for bigger gov-
ernment and liberal causes like higher
minimum wages, gun control, univer-
sal health care, and a carbon tax. Mr.
Soros’s $18 billion gift alone is the
equivalent of maybe 100 Heritage
Foundations. This kind of weaponized
philanthropy has the potential to un-
dermine the American free enterprise
system.
Yes, billions go to groups on the
right, too, from Mr. Koch and others.
But regardless of ideology, why
shouldn’t tax be collected before the
money is given away? What message
does it send that the Republican tax-
reform bills retain this trillion-dollar
loophole for the super rich, at the
same time as the House plan elimi-
nates the adoption credit for mid-
dle-class families who want to help
children?
One simple solution would be for
unassailable conviction. They really
believe redistribution is what poli-
tics is for, and voters trust them
more to do it.
Mrs. May is losing her voters be-
cause parties of the right have no
choice but to focus relentlessly on
economic growth, to explain why
expanding the pie is the only fail-
safe way to ensure everyone gets a
bigger piece. Voters do trust the
right to know how to do this,
thanks in no small part to the eco-
nomic successes of the Thatcher
and Reagan years.
The oddity is that so few politi-
cians on the right today are willing
to play to this strength. Mrs. May
isn’t alone. German Chancellor An-
gela Merkel’s attempt to form a co-
alition government collapsed this
week amid bickering among smaller
parties about tax, environmental
and immigration policies.
Why couldn’t a three-term center-
right German chancellor win enough
votes in September’s election to
form a government on her own, or
in a more plausible right-leaning
coalition? Because she resolutely
refused to campaign on a platform
of economic dynamism instead of
the green-energy boondoggles that
decorated with such care, and think to
himself: “Heaven will be like this.”
For readers too young to remem-
ber, it probably sounds like science
fiction to report that women and
girls really did wear hats and white
gloves when they went downtown to
shop. Lazarus operated 11 different
Online shopping delivers
on prices and variety, but
the old department store
still feels like Christmas.
restaurants inside the store: There
was the Chintz Room, the Buckeye
Room, the Colonial Room, the Cop-
per Kettle, the Highlander Grill, a
1,500-seat employee cafeteria. The
store at one point had on staff two
full-time nurses, who would drive to
ailing employees’ homes to provide
free care. Working at a locally owned
department store could be a career,
not just a job. Employees at those
power. Here’s your lens, kid. Look at
everything through this lens. Every-
thing is about power. Every situa-
tion is analyzed in terms of the bad
people acting to preserve their
power and privilege over the good
people. This is not an education.
This is induction into a cult. It’s a
fundamentalist religion. It’s a para-
noid worldview that separates peo-
ple from each other and sends them
down the road to alienation, anxiety
and intellectual impotence. . . .
Let’s return to Jefferson’s vi-
sion: “For here we are not afraid to
follow the truth wherever it may
lead, nor to tolerate any error as
long as reason is left free to com-
bat it.” Well if Jefferson were to
Congress to apply the capital-
gains tax to assets of more
than $1 million before they are
transferred to a charity. This
could even finance cutting the
capital-gains rate to 15% for
everyone.
Alternatively (or perhaps in
addition) Congress could cap
deductions for any given
household to $250,000 a year.
Under this kind of plan, Mr.
Soros would be able to write
off only a tiny fraction of his
multi-billion dollar gift.
BARBARA KELLEY
This isn’t an argument
against charity. But selfless
and effective giving is not mo-
tivated by tax breaks. Two-
thirds of Americans don’t
itemize their deductions, yet millions
give until it hurts. In the 1980s, indi-
vidual donations to charities surged,
even as the top tax rate—and thus
the maximum value of the write-off—
fell from 70% to 28%.
The question is whether a tax code
that encourages dynastic family foun-
dations is good for America. If Con-
gress stopped letting billionaires
pour money tax free into the founda-
tion-industrial complex, it would go a
long way toward lowering rates and
making the tax code fairer for every-
one. This would help the economy
grow faster, which is the best way to
help those in need.
Mr. Moore is an economic consul-
tant with FreedomWorks and a
founder of the Committee to Unleash
Prosperity. He was a senior economic
adviser to the Trump campaign.
imperil Germany’s current 2.5%
growth.
In France, the center-right Re-
publicans are suffering their own
spasms. Formerly one of the coun-
try’s two major parties, they aban-
doned economic reform and growth
under Jacques Chirac and Nicolas
Sarkozy. This year they couldn’t
even make it into the second round
of a presidential election against a
former Socialist, Emmanuel Macron,
running on an unabashed supply-
side platform.
As for America, congressional
Republicans will decide soon
whether they want to stand on the
winning or losing side of this di-
vide. Tax reform is a more signifi-
cant test than health care because,
more than any other political activ-
ity, tax-code writing can be used ei-
ther to foster economic growth or
to divide a static pie.
Centrist Republicans are deter-
mined to throw in the towel on
growth, hoping instead to buy
enough votes with child tax credits
to hobble through a midterm elec-
tion. Colleagues tempted to follow
them should first take a close look
at Mrs. May’s deteriorating political
fortunes.
stores routinely wore 20-years-of-
service pins.
Christmas was the time when it all
came together. The parades through
town, the Santa Claus villages with the
long lines of children waiting—those
sorts of celebrations are still present
in many cities, with different sponsors
or underwriters now. Yet those long-
departed stores took it upon them-
selves to assume tacit responsibility
for their own towns’ winter-warmth
and sense of seasonal joy. It’s a feeling
that’s tough to franchise.
Online shopping, quick and effi-
cient, is the future. There’s no getting
around it. You don’t need a pair of
white gloves—you don’t need to get
dressed at all—to hit the “order” but-
ton. But as the holidays arrive, I think
of Mike Harden, who died in 2010,
and I’m wondering if it came true: if,
for him, heaven really did turn out to
look just like those Christmas win-
dows on South High Street.
Mr. Greene is completing a new
novel, “Yesterday Came Suddenly,”
about an America with no internet.
return today and tour our nation’s
top universities, he would be
shocked at the culture of fear, the
tolerance of error, and the shackles
placed on reason. . . .
I am actually pessimistic about
America’s future, but let me state
very clearly that I have very low
confidence in my pessimism. Be-
cause until now, it has always been
wrong to bet against America, and
it’s probably wrong to do so now.
My libertarian friends constantly re-
mind me that people are resource-
ful—this is what many people for-
get. When problems get more
severe, people get more inventive,
and that is actually happening right
now.
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UPS Move Pressures Retailers
Holiday surcharge
forces stores to
consider delaying
shipping, shift to FedEx
BY PAUL ZIOBRO
Retailers are contending
with a new challenge as this
year’s holiday shopping season
heats up: extra shipping fees
during the busiest weeks.
United Parcel Service Inc.
for the first time is tacking on a
surcharge on packages shipped
STREETWISE
By James Mackintosh
Those 2017
Predictions:
So Wrong
We all like
to remember
our successes
and forget our
failures, and
finance is no
different. As investors’ in-
boxes once again become
clogged with annual outlooks
from Wall Street’s scribblers,
there is little admission of
the nearly universal failure
to predict what happened
this year—even though the
things the analysts missed
are much more interesting
than their forecasts.
There are two big lessons
to learn from the mistakes of
the year-end crystal-ball gaz-
ing. The first is that when
everyone agrees that prices
can go only in one direction,
it is dangerous. The second
is more nuanced: We really
know an awful lot less about
how the economy works
than we thought.
Last year, almost everyone
was bullish about the pros-
pects for the “reflation trade”
of higher bond yields, stock
prices and the dollar, driven
by rising wages and Donald
Trump’s tax-cut plans.
A year on, and inflation
hasn’t materialized, the tax
discussion is bogged down in
Congress and almost every
analyst was wrong. Bench-
mark 10-year Treasury yields
are down, not up; the dollar
is down, not up, and the S&P
500 has delivered more than
double the gains of even the
most bullish Wall Street
prognosticators.
Strategists mostly shrug
their shoulders and move on
to their 2018 predictions.
Their forecasts out so far
suggest the stock rally will
continue and bond yields fi-
nally start to rise, if a bit less
than they thought before.
Cynics will look at what
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to homes around Black Friday
and the week before Christmas,
hoping to persuade companies
to send their orders outside
those peak periods—or to make
more money from ones that
must be delivered then.
The surcharge has prompted
e-commerce retailers large and
small to consider other delivery
options, such as FedEx Corp. or
the U.S. Postal Service, passing
the additional costs to their
customers or delaying ship-
ments to cheaper times.
Jeffrey Gornstein, president
of home-and-garden site Com-
Where to Bag the Bargains
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Trump Signals Big Regulatory Shift
BY JOHN D. MCKINNON
WASHINGTON—Over just
two days this week, the Trump
administration both sued
AT&T Inc. to block its planned
takeover of Time Warner Inc.
and proposed allowing inter-
net-service providers—like
AT&T—to form closer alliances
with content companies, like
Time Warner.
The two government moves
seem to go in opposite direc-
tions, on the one hand re-
stricting a major telecommu-
nications merger and on the
other giving internet provid-
ers broad new powers to
shape their customers’ online
Shares of ‘Angry Birds’ Maker Are Now Depressed
BY STU WOO
Shares of “Angry Birds”
maker Rovio Entertainment
Corp. fell 22% after a surprise
third-quarter loss raised fresh
questions about the company’s
ability to navigate the fickle
tastes of mobile gamers.
Thursday’s rout came after
the Finnish company reported
its first results since going pub-
lic in September. That listing—
envisioned years ago when “An-
gry Birds” was a runaway hit
and Rovio was one of Europe’s
most promising tech startups—
was scaled back sharply. Inves-
tors valued the company at
about $1 billion, far short of the
$2 billion underwriters had
hoped to hit.
Rovio’s fast ascent as one of
the pioneers of mobile gam-
ing—and its various attempts at
remaking itself since then—has
made it a poster child for the
challenges of the nascent indus-
try as a whole.
After starting out charging
players to download its games,
Rovio adopted the “free-to-
play” tack taken by competitors
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fort House, is one retailer who
isn’t using UPS as much this
holiday season.
He declined to say how much
he anticipates saving by switch-
ing some orders to other carri-
ers, a change he began making
in October. He saw the added
fees as another challenge for
smaller retailers. “Carriers im-
plementing surcharges are pun-
ishing small merchants at the
expense of larger e-commerce
players,” Mr. Gornstein said.
UPS expects the surcharge,
which went into effect on Nov.
19 and lasts through Dec. 2,
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experiences.
But the actions reveal one
consistency, in what might be
seen as an emerging Trump
administration regulatory phi-
losophy: Instead of new
bright-line rules, it is stressing
the enforcement of longstand-
ing laws and regulations.
The moves are a shift in
emphasis from the approach
taken by the Obama adminis-
tration, which in 2015 adopted
highly specific rules governing
internet providers in the name
of “net neutrality,” the princi-
ple that all web traffic should
be treated equally. The provid-
ers were prevented from cut-
ting deals, known as “paid pri-
Fleeting Fancy
Mobile-game developers struggle
to keep players.
40%
Percentage of people who
open game apps after
downloading*
30
20
10
0
1 3 6 10 16 21
Days after downloading
*Game app is downloaded on day 0.
Sources: AppsFlyer
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like “Clash of Clans” maker Su-
percell. The model offers play-
ers the game free of charge and,
instead, relies on in-game pur-
chases and advertising to gen-
erate revenue.
Rovio and competitors now
find themselves focused on cap-
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then returns mid-December, to
smooth out the volume of pack-
ages it delivers during the holi-
day season. The Atlanta-based
carrier expects it will deliver
more than 30 million packages
daily on 17 of the 21 delivery
days between Thanksgiving and
Christmas in the U.S.
Last year UPS said it ex-
ceeded that level on just 11 days
over the same period. It sees
the change this year as evi-
dence that the surcharge is suc-
cessfully evening out its vol-
ume.
Greg Brown, president of
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Amazon
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oritization,” that would give
fast lanes to some kinds of
content at a price.
And the Obama administra-
tion carried that approach into
the antitrust realm, insisting
in Comcast Corp.’s acquisition
of NBCUniversal that Comcast
conform to elaborate net-neu-
trality restrictions as part of
so-called behavioral remedies
that were conditions of gov-
ernment approval.
In other words, net-neutral-
ity regulation took the place of
an antitrust challenge.
Now the tables are turning.
When it comes to internet
policing, the Federal Commu-
nications Commission will
5.9%
27
The maker of ‘Angry Birds’ posted a quarterly loss as it spent heavily to attract mobile-game players.
turing a very small slice of dedi-
cated players. Only 2.5% of all
mobile-game players ever spend
money, according to analytics
firm AppsFlyer.
Rovio’s head of games, Wil-
helm Taht, said in an interview
last month that the company
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UPS’s retail sector, said the
company has been working
with businesses to try to iden-
tify what orders placed during
peak periods may not need to
be rushed out the door. Many
electronics, toys, sporting
goods and clothing, for exam-
ple, are Christmas gifts that
don’t need to be delivered right
away. That can help retailers
avoid bottlenecks, both in UPS’s
network and in their own ware-
houses.
“I don’t think it’s going to
change buying patterns dramat-
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ease back on its rules and
hand a measure of oversight
authority to antitrust watch-
dog the Federal Trade Com-
mission, a deliberate action
outlined Tuesday by FCC
Chairman Ajit Pai.
“As a result of my pro-
posal, the Federal Trade Com-
mission will once again be
able to police [internet pro-
viders], protect consumers
and promote competition, just
as it did before 2015,” Mr. Pai
said. “Notably, my proposal
will put the federal govern-
ment’s most experienced pri-
vacy cop, the FTC, back on the
beat to protect consumers’
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wants to make fewer games and
“run them like a service.”
Rovio’s third-quarter revenue
rose 41% from a year earlier to
€70.7 million ($83.7 million).
However, there were €22.2 mil-
lion in “user acquisition” costs,
leading to an €800,000 loss for
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Tax Bill
Shakes Up
Muni Debt
Planning
BY HEATHER GILLERS
The North Olmsted City
school district in suburban
Cleveland was planning to wait
a few years before refinancing
$48 million in outstanding
bonds used to build a new
middle school and high school.
Now Treasurer Robert Matson
is hoping to get the deal done
before Christmas.
The reason: The Republican
tax plan in Congress would
eliminate a tax exemption on
some types of bonds issued by
state and local governments to
refinance their old debt.
“It just made all the sense
in the world to do it,” Mr. Mat-
son said.
The GOP proposal targets
the exemption for advanced
refunding bonds, which allow
governments to refinance old
bonds earlier to take advan-
tage of low interest rates and,
occasionally, to postpone com-
ing debt payments.
The House approved its ver-
sion of the tax measure this
month, and the GOP has said it
aims to get agreement on the
bill by year’s end. It is one of
several municipal-market ex-
emptions that could be phased
out under the legislation. The
nonpartisan Joint Committee
on Taxation estimates that
ending advance refundings
would mean an additional
$17.3 billion in revenue to the
federal government over the
next decade.
Analysts said the move is
likely to reduce the yearly sup-
ply of municipal bonds and in-
crease borrowing costs for
governments.
The expected change in pol-
icy is already prompting cities
and states to fast-track their
advance refunding offerings
before the end of the year. One
under way is from the state of
Wisconsin, which last week
circulated preliminary ad-
vanced refunding documents
for $375 million of transporta-
tion revenue bonds.
“We just want to get ahead
of the possible large amount of
supply that could hit the muni
market in December,” said the
state’s capital finance director,
David Erdman, who had origi-
nally expected to refinance the
debt in 2018 or 2019.
New York’s Metropolitan
Transportation Authority sold
$2 billion in transportation
revenue bonds last week,
partly to get ahead of any po-
tential change in tax policy,
spokesman Aaron Donovan
said.
Advance refundings have
been allowed for decades, as
long as governments have
been issuing tax-exempt
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the quarter, compared with
year-earlier profit of €3.9 mil-
lion. Analysts were expecting a
hefty profit. Shares fell to €9.21
on Thursday, off 20% from their
initial offering price of €11.50.
—Sarah E. Needleman
contributed to this article.
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INDEX TO BUSINESSES BUSINESS & FINANCE

These indexes cite notable references to most parent companies and businesspeople
in today’s edition. Articles on regional page inserts aren’t cited in these indexes.

A
ABM Industries .......... B4
Adaptive Insights.......B4
Adobe .......................... B4
Akzo Nobel................B12
Alibaba Group Holding
...................................B10
Alphabet......................B3
Altice.........................B11
Amazon.com ............... B2
American Airlines Group
...................................B11
Anaplan.......................B4
ARO Liquidation ......... B2
AT&T............................B1
Avis Budget Group...B11
Axalta Coating Systems
...................................B12
B refundings swelled to $125 bil-
Bonanza Creek Energy
.....................................B3
BP................................B6
C in safe, short-term securities,
Cannell Capital............B3
Centrica.....................B11
Chevron ....................... B6
Citgo Petroleum..........B6
Comcast.......................B1
CSX............................B11
D Outcome Health..........B6
Deere....................B4,B12
Dick's Sporting GoodsB2
E .....................................B6
Eli Lilly ........................B6
Emerson Electric.........B4
Exxon Mobil................B6
INDEX TO PEOPLE
A Grohowski, Leo.........B11
Anand, Monish..........B10
Assaf, Samir.............B10
B J
Bell, Jim......................B4
Brown, Greg................B1
C
Chakravarthy, Anita....B4
Collins, Michael ........ B12
F L
Flint, John.................B10
G
Garrett, Mark..............B4
Gofshteyn, Ilya ......... B12
Gohc Cheng Liang.....B12
Gornstein, Jeffrey ...... B1
F
Facebook......................B3
Fair Isaac...................B10
PPG Industries..........B12
Qudian.......................B10
R
DEBT Rush to Refinance
Advance refundings allow borrowers to take advantage of low
interest rates and sometimes to postpone debt payments.
sometimes issue new, longer-
dated bonds to advance refund
bonds that are coming due so
they can postpone big debt
FedEx...........................B1 Radial .......................... B2 Continued from the prior page payments. That move often
H RBL Bank .................. B10 Percentage of all munis that are advanced refundings
bonds. In 1986, as part of the adds to those cities’ interest
HSBC ......................... B10 Rockwell Automation.B4 tax overhaul under President 30% costs, compounding financial
Rovio Entertainment..B1
I Royal Dutch Shell.......B6
Ronald Reagan, Congress lim- pressures.
Insulet.........................B6 ited government borrowers to 20 If the proposal becomes
S
J one advance refunding per law, municipalities could start
Salesforce.com............B4 10
Jianpu Technology....B10 SandRidge Energy ...... B3
bond issue. writing earlier refinancing
K SAP..............................B4 Government borrowers have 0 dates into their bond contracts
Kobe Steel...................B4 Sherwin-Williams.....B12 sold an average of $60 billion to maintain their flexibility,
1998 2000 ’10
Kotak Mahindra Bank SoftBank Group..........A1 in advance refunding bonds a some analysts said. But be-
...................................B10 Southwest Airlines .. B11 year over the past decade, Falling yields have motivated municipalities to refund. cause many investors prefer
Space Exploration about 15% of total municipal longer-dated bonds, that move
L Technologies.............B4
issuance. Last year, advance Average yield on 30-year A-rated muni bonds could drive up borrowing costs
Levi Strauss................B2 T
8% as much as a quarter of a per-
M Tandem Diabetes Care
lion, or 30% of total issuance. 6 cent, said John Mousseau, di-
Macy's.........................B2 .....................................B6
Microsoft.....................B4
With advance refundings, rector of fixed income at Cum-
Tesla............................B4 4
Mitsubishi Materials..B4 Time Warner...............B1
borrowers invest the proceeds berland Advisors, an
2 investment-management firm.
N Total ............................ B6
Twitter ........................ B3 and those funds are used to 0
Government-finance offi-
Nippon Paint Holdings
...................................B12 U make payments on older bonds cials say the benefits of ad-
1998 2000 ’10
Norfolk Southern......B11 Uber Technologies......A1 that typically can’t be refi- vance refunding to local tax-
O United Continental nanced until a decade has Sources: Thomson Reuters; Thomson Reuters Municipal Market Data (yield) payers are significant.
Holdings..................B11 passed. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Florida’s bond finance director,
Oracle .......................... B4
United Parcel Service.B1 Advance refundings make Ben Watkins, estimated the
U.S. Postal Service.....B1 the most sense for borrowers provide investors with interest “As a bond manager, we state has saved $3 billion over
P-Q
W when short-term rates are high exempt from federal taxes. could be looking at less attrac- the past 10 years with advance
Petróleos de Venezuela
Wintrust Financial......B4 relative to long-term rates. In Participants in the munici- tively priced interest levels for refundings.
Workiva.......................B4 that scenario, the income pro- pal market said they have sev- bond investors,” said Dan “The vast majority of state
P.F. Chang's China
Bistro ........................ B4 Z duced by the shorter-term se- eral concerns about the possi- Heckman, senior fixed-income and local government refundings
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ceeds of the advance refunding public-finance officials would Management. than as a budgetary gimmick,”
bonds will approach the bor- no longer be able to take ad- Ending advance refundings said Mr. Watkins, a former
rowing costs on those bonds.
Both sets of bonds remain
vantage of low interest rates,
and municipal bond investors
would also take away a crutch
some governments have used
chairman of the Government Fi-
nance Officers Association debt
outstanding until the first set and traders would have less for short-term budgetary re- committee who serves on the
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thought stocks would do well
as Mr. Trump cut taxes and
inflation picked up, while
Continued from the prior page many also predicted more
happened in the past and volatility because of the
wonder why anyone bothers. political and geopolitical
Predictions have a dire track uncertainty. They were

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record, and have been sadly wrong, at least so far, about
predictable themselves. taxes and inflation, but
Treasury yields have been stocks went up anyway. They
forecast to rise every year were right about political and
for the past decade, geopolitical uncertainty, but
according to forecasts volatility failed to appear.
collected by Consensus

Economics, yet they have
gone down more often than
not. Even when they went
up, the moves were only
once anywhere near what
was predicted, back in 2008.
Forget using a dartboard to
plan investments; on average
a coin toss would be better.
The same goes for stock
prices. Only rarely is the
average S&P 500 forecast of
strategists anywhere near
the actual result. More than
half the time since 2000 the
miss has been either too high
or too low by an amount
bigger than the S&P’s 9%
long-run annual gain.
Don’t blame Wall Street for
getting it wrong, though.
When markets work, they
incorporate an average
prediction already, so
forecasting markets involves
assessing when the average
prediction will change, as
well as fundamentals such as
the economy. Both are pretty
unpredictable.
“It’s doubly silly,” says
M&G fund manager Eric
Lonergan. “You can’t predict
what’s going to happen [with
events] and even if you are
fortuitous enough to be
right, it doesn’t help you
when you’re investing.”
This year has been a
Getting It Wrong
Economists almost always predict rising U.S. bond yields.
Mostly they are wrong.
5%
T
he key to what went
wrong for the
forecasters this year The U.S. Postal Service expects to deliver more packages because of UPS’s surcharge for shipments during stretches of the holiday rush.
was the lack of inflation,
something Federal Reserve
Chairwoman Janet Yellen
has described as a
“mystery.” As the year went
UPS Amazon.com Inc.’s “no-rush
shipping,” in which shoppers
can forgo free two-day shipping
in exchange for slower delivery
Congestion Pricing
UPS is adding a surcharge on
most packages shipped to
set plans to raise them during
next year’s holiday season.
FedEx isn’t adding peak-pe-
riod surcharges, but like UPS, it
on, investors became Continued from the prior page and credits for videos, music or homes around Black Friday and is tacking on extra fees for
increasingly convinced that ically,” said Mr. Brown. “What other items. the week before Christmas. oversize packages shipped dur-
inflation would stay we’re trying to help retailers do This fall, Levi Strauss & Co. ing the holidays. Patrick
dormant, bringing down is shape demand a little bit.” added “economy shipping,” a Dates with extra shipping fees Fitzgerald, FedEx’s senior vice
long-term bond yields and Retailers are also attempting cheaper and slower option than NOVEMBER president of communications,
the dollar even as decent to adjust customers’ expecta- standard ground shipping that S M T W T F S said its peak-pricing strategy
economic growth boosted tions. Macy’s Inc., which ships is aimed at online holiday shop- was set with small and me-
1 2 3 4
profits and stock prices. exclusively through UPS, is for pers getting an early start, said dium-size businesses, as well as
Not many of the year- the first time offering “no hurry Marc Rosen, its president of 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 consumers shipping gifts, in
ahead treatises have landed shipping” this holiday season, global e-commerce. Economy 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 mind.
yet, but those that have giving all online shoppers the shipping, which takes up to The U.S. Postal Service,
almost all, once again, option of longer delivery times seven days, “allows us to work 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 which hasn’t added additional
predict bond yields rising in exchange for “Macy’s with transport providers to 26 27 28 29 30 charges, expects to deliver
over the next year along Money” that can be applied to take advantage of lower ship- more packages because of UPS’s
with stock prices. It is future purchases. ping rates and pass that to con- move and will be monitoring its
DECEMBER 1 2
tempting to regard that Macy’s tested the shipping sumers,” said Mr. Rosen. “It network to see if there is a
forecast as a contrarian option in some markets a year gives us more flexibility.” 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 bump, Postmaster General Me-
indicator and bet on the ago and more broadly during UPS’s surcharge tacks an ad- gan Brennan said.
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
opposite. But while that Mother’s Day and Father’s Day ditional 27 cents onto ground Radial, which provides e-
approach would have worked this year and said a “fair per- packages shipped during the 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 commerce services to retailers
for bonds and the dollar this centage” of customers signed peak period around Thanksgiv- 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 such as Dick’s Sporting Goods
year, it would have meant up. ing and Black Friday, ending Inc. and Aéropostale Inc.,
missing out on a stunning “More often than not, it is Dec. 2. It doesn’t apply to next- 31 asked clients over the summer
share-price rally. more of a ‘want’ basis instead day or second-day shipments, whether they would like to of-
Strong consensus is a of a ‘need’ basis,” said Scott which are already more expen- Source: the company fer the option over the holidays.
warning sign worth watching Prieto, Macy’s executive vice sive. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. “We didn’t have any takers,”
for. But the value in Wall president of logistics and oper- The week before Christmas, said Stefan Weitz, Radial’s exec-
Street’s year-end ations. steeper fees go into effect, 30. Moody’s forecast that UPS utive vice president of technol-
publications comes from the Macy’s will offer the delayed starting at 27 cents for ground could generate up to $200 mil- ogy services. “There is still a
analysis they contain, not shipping option for several days orders and increasing to 97 lion in revenue from the peak real question as to whether or
the prices they predict. around Black Friday, when Mr. cents for packages delivered in surcharges, which also include not consumers will accept the
Prieto said Macys.com orders two and three days. higher fees on oversize pack- option, especially as Amazon
can be 10 times what they are UPS generated an average ages. continues to offer two-day
on a typical weekday, and in the $8.31 in revenue on each UPS has declined to say how [shipping] free.”
week before Christmas. ground package shipped in the much it expects to make from —Sarah Nassauer
The offering is similar to U.S. in the quarter ended Sept. the extra charges. It has already contributed to this article.
10-year Treasury yield Average 12-month forecast

3
TRUMP
2
Continued from the prior page
online privacy.”
1 In the case of net neutrality,
Mr. Pai’s FCC moved quickly
0 by regulatory standards. It is
2009 ’10 too soon to know whether this
enforcement emphasis will ex-
Wall Street strategists rarely predict the tend to other parts of the
year-ahead S&P 500 correctly. Trump deregulatory agenda,
which involves rolling back a
2500 S&P 500 Average 12-month forecast broad range of Obama-era
rules covering power-plant
2000 emissions, financial services
and other industries.
1500 In the financial sector, Mr.
Trump’s regulatory team has
1000 launched a review of stricter
rules adopted after the 2008
bailouts. In general, officials
500
say they want to recalibrate
2000 ’10 standards governing bank
Sources: Thomson Reuters Datastream (actual); Consensus Economics via FactSet lending and other areas with-
(Treasury forecasts); Bloomberg (S&P 500 forecasts) THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. out scrapping them entirely.
It isn’t clear whether finan-
cial regulators will maintain the
streak of aggressive enforce-
ment actions that began under
the Obama administration.
Fines levied by the Securi-
ties and Exchange Commission
fell to a four-year low in the
last fiscal year, though SEC of-
ficials caution against reading
too much into a single year’s
data.
At the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency, Administrator
Scott Pruitt has touted a
“back-to-basics” approach in-
volving the reversal of numer-
ous Obama regulations and
has said he would emphasize
enforcement.
“There’s a difference be-
tween creating regulatory cer-
tainty and holding polluters
accountable for violating envi-
ronmental laws,” said EPA
spokeswoman Liz Bowman.
Environmental groups say
the EPA’s actions so far this
year don’t suggest a robust
emphasis on enforcement. The
agency counters that those
groups’ estimates are low be-
cause it can take months or
years before such actions can
be completed.
Consumer groups argue
that clear regulations are nec-
essary across industries to
keep companies from harming
consumers. With the internet,
they say, antitrust enforce-
ment is too cumbersome, slow
and potentially arbitrary to
keep up with the speed of
technological change.
Because the FTC doesn’t
have the authority to create
and enforce broad rules, it
isn’t in a position to police
fast and slow lanes that may
harm competition, said Jona-
than Zittrain, professor of law
and computer science at Har-
vard University and a former
chairman of the FCC’s Open
Internet Advisory Committee.
The agency can only take “in-
dividual enforcement action
on the vague notion of unfair
trade practices,” he said.
Conservatives who believe
in a lighter regulatory touch,
like Mr. Pai, generally argue
that hard-and-fast rules are
overly prescriptive and will
slow investment and innova-
tion.
Some free-market advo-
cates go even further, saying
the antitrust action this week
went too far, especially given
that the AT&T-Time Warner
tie-up is a “vertical” merger,
or one that combines two
companies that operate at dif-
ferent stages of a supply
chain.
—Douglas MacMillan,
Ryan Knutson, Ryan Tracy
and Timothy Puko
contributed to this article.
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Facebook to Tell Users

If They Followed or
Liked Russian Pages
BY JACK NICAS
Facebook Inc. said it plans
to tell millions of users who
liked or followed any of the
290 Facebook and Instagram
pages created by Russian ac-
tors that they were ensnared
in an alleged misinformation
campaign around the U.S.
presidential election last year.
Yet Wednesday’s disclosure
falls short of notifying more
than 100 million other users
who came across the pages’
ads and posts, and may have
liked, shared or commented on
them. And it provides little in-
formation to those users who
did follow the pages.
By the end of the year, us-
ers will have access to a tool
Facebook’s disclosure to
users is “really the bare mini-
mum,” said Elevation Part-
ners co-founder Roger Mc-
Namee, an early Facebook
investor and adviser who has
become a critic of social me-
dia’s effect on democracy.
Facebook’s “reluctance to
both accept responsibility for
what happened in 2016 and,
more importantly, to take
steps to prevent similar
things happening in the fu-
ture is just both horribly dis-
appointing and really danger-
ous.”
Sen. Blumenthal requested
Facebook reach all users who
came across any content from
the Internet Research Agency
and tell them “exactly what
Icahn Gets SandRidge Stake
Investor joins other
shareholders against
proposed acquisition
of Bonanza Creek
BY DAVID BENOIT
AND RYAN DEZEMBER
Carl Icahn has purchased a
13.5% stake in SandRidge En-
ergy Inc., joining a list of
shareholders who say a deal
the oil-and-gas producer
struck last week makes little
sense.
The stake, Mr. Icahn’s first
new activist position this year,
makes him the biggest holder
of SandRidge shares. He had
already been buying in Octo-
ber on the belief they were
cheap, but scooped up millions
more in the wake of the an-
nouncement that SandRidge
would buy Bonanza Creek En-

to check if they followed any
Disclosures will reach
only a fraction of the
over 120 million users
who saw posts.
of the pages, which were de-
signed to look as if they were
run by Americans but were ac-
tually created by a single pro-
Kremlin firm called the Inter-
net Research Agency. Sen.
Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.)
this month, following a con-
gressional hearing, asked
Facebook, Twitter Inc. and Al-
phabet Inc.’s Google to tell us-
ers who saw posts by the In-
ternet Research Agency, and
asked for a reply by Wednes-
day.
Facebook’s disclosures,
however, will reach only a
fraction of the more than 120
million users who saw the
posts, the company said. A
Facebook spokesman said it is
too difficult to reach all af-
fected users, in part because it
can’t reliably identify who
came across the content.
content they saw so they can
understand and evaluate what
they may see in the future,”
according to a letter he sent to
the company.
Sen. Blumenthal on
Wednesday called Facebook’s
move “an encouraging step”
and added, “I hope that
Google and Twitter will follow
Facebook’s lead.”
U.S. intelligence agencies,
lawmakers and tech firms say
Russian actors aimed to influ-
ence the presidential election
last year by pushing false and
misleading information and
sowing division among Ameri-
can voters.
One pillar of the Russians’
strategy, which U.S. intelli-
gence agencies say was di-
rected by the Russian govern-
ment, was to create fake
accounts on popular U.S. tech
sites, including Facebook, In-
stagram, Twitter and Google’s
YouTube. On Facebook and In-
stagram, the Russian accounts
ran thousands of ads as a way
to amass followers to their
pages.
Google and Twitter de-
clined to comment on whether
they plan to tell users who
came across such Russian con-
tent on their sites.
ergy Inc. for about $750 mil-
lion, according to people fa-
miliar with the matter.
In a filing Wednesday, Mr.
Icahn called the deal “nonsen-
sical” and questioned “what
possible justifications manage-
ment could have.” Shares rose
8.6% to $19 in post-market
trading, after The Wall Street
Journal reported the stake.
Like the other investors,
Mr. Icahn believes the Bon-
zana Creek deal echoes a prior
ill-fated acquisition binge at
the company. The investors,
which include Fir Tree Part-
ners, also question the quality
of Bonanza Creek’s properties,
argue the price is too high and
complain SandRidge is using
undervalued stock to pay for
the acquisition. The investors
say they expected SandRidge
to run a disciplined oil-and-
gas producer in Oklahoma and
Colorado, not strike big deals.
SandRidge’s stock tumbled
as much as 20% the day the
Bonanza Creek deal was an-
nounced, and as of Wednesday
afternoon remained down
even amid the heavy buying of
Mr. Icahn and some others. As
of Wednesday’s close, the
shares had dropped 26% this
year, giving the Oklahoma City
Shares of oil-and-gas producer SandRidge Energy are down 26% this year. A SandRidge site in Colorado.
SandRidge Deals
Stirred Prior Interest
u SandRidge was started in
2006 by Tom Ward, who had
earlier founded Chesapeake En-
ergy Co. with the late Aubrey
McClendon. SandRidge was
valued at over $11 billion, but
its value plunged in the finan-
cial crisis.
u A series of deals, culminat-
ing with one in 2012 involving
company a market value just
shy of $600 million.
“We believe our Bonanza
Creek acquisition will drive
strong risk-adjusted returns for
SandRidge stockholders and be
accretive to cash flow per
share,” said SandRidge spokes-
man David Kimmel.
SandRidge Chief Executive
James Bennett told analysts
Gulf of Mexico oil fields, at-
tracted activist investors who
called for Mr. Ward’s ouster. He
landed a severance package
worth roughly $90 million.
u Though Carl Icahn wasn’t
part of the original fight with
SandRidge, he has a history
with the company, having
booked a sizable profit when he
sold Mr. Ward some small com-
panies. Mr. Icahn has long been
involved with energy stocks,
helping oust Mr. McClendon
from Chesapeake, for example.
last week that the combination
“creates a more balanced port-
folio” of mature drilling fields
in Arkansas and Oklahoma
that can help generate cash to
fund development. It would
also give SandRidge more ex-
posure to oil, as opposed to
natural gas, add drilling loca-
tions that offer higher returns,
and produce cost savings
SANDRIDGE ENERGY
while boosting the company’s
purchasing power, he said.
The activist investor’s pres-
ence will likely escalate the
pressure on Mr. Bennett, who
took over the company in 2013
when a heated investor fight
felled his predecessor, founder
Tom Ward. SandRidge filed for
bankruptcy in May 2016 amid
falling oil-and-gas prices and
hefty debts the company piled
up while attempting to find a
sustainable strategy. It emerged
in October 2016, with Mr. Ben-
nett still at the helm.
Fir Tree, which holds about
a 7% stake in common stock,
blasted the proposed Bonanza
Creek deal in a public state-
ment on Monday. Susque-
hanna Investment Group LLC
and Cannell Capital LLC,
which own over 4% and 1.5%,
respectively, have also said
they oppose it.
Because of the stock issu-
ance it involves, the Bonanza
Creek deal would require a
vote of SandRidge holders.

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TECHNOLOGY WSJ.com/Tech

CHINA CIRCUIT | By Li Yuan

Corporate
Let a Hundred Oracles, SAPs Bloom Finance
Cuts Back
As much as do outnumber mobile-inter-
Yawning Gap
the world her-
alds the rise
of China tech,
Businesses and government
agencies in China spend a fraction
net startups, the hottest sec-
tor in recent years.
At the forefront of the
On Excel
its success is of what their U.S. counterparts do battle for the enterprise BY TATYANA SHUMSKY
confined on software. market is the chatbot, a soft-
largely to consumer business. ware program that answers Adobe Inc.’s. finance chief,
Where the U.S. has Facebook, $300 billion U.S. China questions. For many compa- Mark Garrett, says his team
Amazon and Google, China nies, a boom in consumer struggles keeping track of
has Tencent, Alibaba and 250 business means heavy de- which jobs have been filled at
Baidu—companies good at mand for customer service. the software company.
developing applications that 200 These companies are finding The process can take days
help hundreds of millions of that it’s cheaper and easier and requires staff to pull data
150
consumers shop, pay, chat to train a machine to inter- from disparate
QILAI SHEN/BLOOMBERG NEWS

and play games. 100 act with customers. CFO systems into Mi-
In the enterprise-applica- JOURNAL crosoft Corp.’s

O
tion market, it’s a different 50 ne chatbot maker, Excel spread-
story. China has nothing Shenzhen-based Zhu- sheets. From
comparable with Oracle, 0 iYi Technology Co., re- there, they can see which
SAP or Salesforce.com. 2014 ’15 ’16* ’17 ’18 ceived $21 million in series B groups are hiring and how sal-
In fact, the Chinese enter- *Estimate
Forecasts funding this month. Founded ary spending affects the budget.
prise market looks like the Source: Forrester 18 months ago by a group of “I don’t want financial plan-
tech consumer market in the Alibaba Cloud leads what is a fast-growing tech sector in China. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. former Tencent program- ning people spending their time
country 10 years ago. Cus- mers, ZhuiYi already counts importing and exporting and
tomers—in this case, compa- and Baidu for the enterprise see the fragmentation as a pirate software. Cloud-based as customers ride-sharing gi- manipulating data, I want them
nies—are reluctant to pay market. As with the con- plus, setting the stage for a services are usually much ant Didi Chuxing, China’s big- to focus on what is the data
for software and pirate it sumer internet sector, for- fast uptake in enterprise ap- cheaper than traditional en- gest online travel site, telling us,” Mr. Garrett said.
when they can. They’d rather eign players are expected to plications. More businesses terprise software. And, as Ctrip.com International, and CFOs at companies includ-
throw labor at problems be- encounter barriers to market are turning to cloud-based companies accumulate cus- China’s biggest credit-card is- ing P.F. Chang’s China Bistro
cause investing in technol- access, including rules for lo- services for data storage and tomer data and move to the suer, China Merchants Bank. Inc., ABM Industries Inc. and
ogy is expensive and doesn’t calizing products and local software applications. In a cloud, they’re looking to ar- When China Merchants Wintrust Financial Corp. are
always work. control of cloud services. Deutsche Bank survey this tificial-intelligence technolo- Bank went looking for a on a similar drive to reduce
Those attitudes are chang- year of chief information of- gies for help. chatbot for its credit-card how much their finance teams

B
ing as labor costs rise and usinesses and govern-
app options multiply. Many ment departments in
companies now want to tap China spent 122 billion
into the power of artificial yuan ($18.5 billion) on soft-
intelligence and cloud com- ware in 2016, compared with
puting to increase efficiency $245 billion in the U.S., ac-
and cut costs. cording to Forrester. While
That spells huge opportu- Salesforce has a market capi-
nity in a growing market de- talization of $78 billion, its
void of a dominant player. dozens of Chinese wannabes
Investors and startups are are startups, with none val-
betting there’s a chance to ued at $1 billion.
create a Tencent, Alibaba At this point, investors
ficers at about 50 Chinese
companies in a variety of
sectors, 84% of respondents
said they plan to make
“heavy use of cloud services”
by 2019, up from 4% in 2016.
Alibaba Cloud, the biggest in
China by market share, dou-
bled its revenue last quarter
from a year earlier.
As small- and medium-
size businesses move to the
cloud, they’re less likely to
An AI startup boom is un- business, ZhuiYi outper- use Excel for financial plan-
der way. In the first five formed IBM’s Watson soft- ning, analysis and reporting.
months of this year, 175 AI- ware, says Chen Kunde, the Finance chiefs say the ubiq-
related startups received 15.2 bank’s chief information offi- uitous software hasn’t kept up
billion yuan in venture in- cer. Yibot demonstrated bet- with the demands of corporate
vesting, close to the total for ter understanding of the Chi- finance units. Instead, compa-
2015, which was nearly triple nese language, he says, and nies are turning to cloud-based
the amount for 2014, accord- the bank is now looking to technologies from Anaplan
ing to Beijing-based Zero2IPO expand chatbot services to Inc., Workiva Inc., Adaptive
Group. While not all these customer relations. IBM says Insights and their rivals.
companies aim to serve en- it doesn’t comment on the Adobe switched to Anaplan
terprises, announcements of specifics of customer en- last year, and many tasks previ-
financing suggest those that gagement. ously performed in spread-
sheets are now done in the sys-
tem, maintaining “one source of

Tesla Delivers the World’s Biggest Battery

truth,” Mr. Garrett said.
P.F. Chang’s finance chief,
Jim Bell, said he switched to
Adaptive Insights because it
BY ROB TAYLOR Weatherill said Thursday, call- fosters collaboration and cuts
ing the system a clear message down on administrative tasks.
JAMESTOWN, Australia— that South Australia will be a Excel has evolved to better
Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon leader in renewable energy. serve its specialized custom-
Musk may have overpromised Mr. Musk tweeted, “Con- ers, including in the financial
on production of the com- gratulations to the Tesla crew community, said Brian Jones,
pany’s latest electric car, but and South Australian authori- head of Microsoft’s Excel
he is delivering on his auda- ties who worked so hard to product strategy. Excel has
cious Australian battery bet. get this manufactured and in- broad reach. Office 365, which
An enormous Tesla-built stalled in record time!” includes Excel, has more than
battery system—storing elec- The battery will provide 120 million monthly users,
tricity from a new wind farm backup power through its said Ron Markezich, Micro-
and capable of supplying evaluation over coming weeks, soft’s corporate vice president
30,000 homes for more than an Mr. Weatherill said, but the of Office 365.
hour—will be powered up over real test will come with the Wintrust, which operates 15
the coming days, the govern- Australian summer, between chartered community banks in
ment of South Australia state December and March, when Illinois and Wisconsin, dropped
said Thursday. Final tests are temperatures regularly soar Excel in favor of Workiva be-
MARK BRAKE/GETTY IMAGES

set to be followed by a street above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. cause of error rates.
party that Mr. Musk, founder Mr. Weatherill’s government “The CFO would ask: can
of both Tesla and rocket maker tapped Tesla in July, after a you tell me how many loans
Space Exploration Technolo- tender to build a large-scale were paid off and how many
gies Corp., or SpaceX, was ex- storage system connected to did you refinance in the last
pected to attend. the 33 million Australian dollar quarter, and we got different
Success would fulfill the (US$25 million) Hornsdale answers from different teams,”
risky pledge Mr. Musk made in Elon Musk’s Tesla-built system stores electricity from a new wind farm in South Australia state. wind farm, being built by said Anita Chakravarthy, se-
March, to deliver a working French company Neoen along nior vice president of perfor-
system in “100 days from con- outs left 1.7 million people withstanding, the country’s per makes it the world’s largest, low hills forming the southern mance measurement.
tract signature or it is free.” He without power, some for weeks. person greenhouse emissions tripling the previous record tail of the Flinders Ranges. Kayla Davis, who runs fi-
was answering a Twitter chal- Mr. Cannon-Brookes then are among the world’s highest. array at Mira Loma near On- The site, known as the “whis- nancial planning at ABM, re-
lenge from Australian IT bil- brokered talks between Mr. South Australia’s govern- tario, Calif., also built by Tesla pering plains,” lies among val- lied on Excel to pull data from
lionaire and environmentalist Musk and Australian Prime ment has yet to say how much and U.S. power company leys that funnel strong Southern disparate accounting systems.
Mike Cannon-Brookes to help Minister Malcolm Turnbull, the battery will cost taxpayers, Southern California Edison. Hemisphere winds and adjacent Since switching to Anaplan in
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heavily on renewable energy— renewable-energy policies in fa- million. Tesla says the sys- this project in such a short supplies nine million customers because it doesn’t require as
after crippling summer black- vor of coal. South Australia not- tem’s 100-megawatt capacity time,” state Premier Jay across five states. much verification, she said.

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U.S. Citizens Working for Citgo Detained

Arrests of executives spokesman declined to com- Embassy had called on Vene- said the latest arrests owe tion in government. ton’s “economic war” against
ment, citing privacy laws. An- zuela to free the executives, an more to the turf wars inside The Citgo officials were de- his government.
in Venezuela are part other U.S. official said the assertion American officials the authoritarian government tained at a PdVSA event at its Mr. Saab said they would be
of what authorities call American government is moni- hadn’t publicly made. “I talked than to a serious effort to root Caracas headquarters in front charged with money launder-
toring the arrests, citing “sig- to the attorney general,” Mr. out corruption. It is improba- of the company’s management, ing and embezzlement. “Orga-
anticorruption purge nificant congressional interest.” Maduro thundered in a speech ble, they said, that Citgo’s ex- a person familiar with the nized crime has been taking
In a statement, Houston- carried on national television. ecutives would embark on a matter said. root in the ranks of PdVSA,”
BY ANATOLY KURMANAEV based Citgo said it was look- “These people were born in The U.S. citizens among Mr. Saab told reporters on
ing into the corruption allega- Venezuela. They’re Venezue- them are refining Vice Presi- Tuesday.
CARACAS, Venezuela— tions. A Citgo spokesman lans and they’ll be tried for President dent Tomeu Vadell, supply PdVSA President Nelson
American citizens were among declined to comment further. corruption, for being thieves Nicolás Maduro Vice President Jorge Toledo, Martínez, a Maduro appointee,
the executives at Citgo Petro- Relations between the and traitors against the fa- has accused Vice President for Shared Ser- on Wednesday said he sup-
leum Corp. that the Venezue- countries are already tense. therland.” the U.S. of vices José Luis Zambrano and ported the investigation to
lan intelligence agency ar- President Donald Trump has As part of what he called a trying to the head of the Corpus Christi “root out corruption.”
rested here on Tuesday, a called Venezuelan President cleanup of Citgo, Mr. Maduro overthrow his refinery, Alirio Zambrano. The Since taking office in Au-
development that has exacer- Nicolás Maduro a dictator named a cousin of late Presi- government. Citgo official said all four are gust, Mr. Saab has arrested
bated strains between Wash- and Washington has imposed dent Hugo Chávez, Asdrúbal company veterans who grew about 50 managers at PdVSA
ington and Caracas. financial and travel penalties Chávez, to head Citgo. up in Venezuela and later be- and its contractors for alleged
Venezuela arrested six top on the leader and dozens of Venezuela Attorney General $4 billion deal without the came U.S. citizens. The gov- overpricing and theft, which
executives of the U.S. subsid- his top officials. The U.S. has Tarek Saab on Tuesday said consent of Mr. Maduro, who ernment also detained Citgo the government says has hurt
iary of state-oil company accused members of his ad- the detained executives tried has installed people close to acting CEO José Pereira and the company’s revenue.
Petróleos de Venezuela SA, in- ministration of drug traffick- to defraud the nation through him to run PdVSA. head of public affairs Gustavo Mr. Saab’s anticorruption
cluding its acting president, as ing and undermining democ- a planned $4 billion financing Transparency International, Cárdenas. campaign is highly selective
part of what officials called an racy. Mr. Maduro has deal with U.S. and Dubai in- a Berlin-based nonprofit group None of the executives and is driven by politics rather
anticorruption purge. At least responded by accusing Wash- vestment funds. He didn’t pro- that monitors perceptions of could be reached to comment. than pursuit of justice, said
four of those arrested are natu- ington of trying to overthrow vide further details about the graft, rates Venezuela as the Mr. Maduro on Tuesday Mercedes de Freitas, director
ralized U.S. citizens, a Citgo of- his government. alleged fraud. 10th-most corrupt country in called Citgo’s alleged planned of Transparency Venezuela,
ficial said on Wednesday. Speaking late Wednesday, People close to state-owned the world. Venezuelan officials financing deal “treason” and the local branch of Transpar-
A U.S. State Department Mr. Maduro claimed the U.S. oil company, known as PdVSA, dismiss any systemic corrup- said it forms part of Washing- ency International.

Lilly Plans Insulin-Delivery Device Energy Firms Commit

BY PETER LOFTUS

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Eli
To Cut Gas Pollution
Lilly & Co., one of the biggest BY SARAH KENT sions that occur when it leaks
makers of insulin, has been AND BRADLEY OLSON into the atmosphere is start-
planning a risky new business ing to draw negative attention.
venture: making the high-tech LONDON—Exxon Mobil Exxon and its partners said
devices that deliver insulin to Corp. has joined with seven they have signed up to a set of
diabetes patients. other big energy companies to guiding principles, committing
In a research laboratory reduce pollution from natural to drive down methane emis-
Lilly opened here in 2015, sci- gas production, an effort by sions from their assets, en-
entists have been developing a the industry to present itself courage better performance
wearable, automated insulin- as part of the solution as gov- from their peers, improve
delivery device designed to re- ernments and consumers de- transparency and data accu-
duce the decision-making and mand more environmentally racy on the matter and advo-
guesswork of conventional in- friendly energy. cate for better regulation.
SHAWN G. HENRY FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

sulin injections. They are also Big oil companies like “The commitment was
developing a “smart pen” in- Exxon and Royal Dutch Shell made as part of wider efforts
jection device that can wire- PLC have increasingly touted by the global energy industry
lessly transmit dosing infor- natural gas as a core tool to to ensure that natural gas con-
mation to a patient’s phone, to combat climate change, since tinues to play a critical role in
ensure proper dosing. it produces fewer greenhouse- helping meet future energy,”
Lilly’s previously undis- gas emissions than coal, the the companies said in a joint
closed projects are an unusual fuel it often replaces in elec- statement. “Its role in the
example of diversification at a tricity production. transition to a low-carbon fu-
time when much of the drug The rare trans-Atlantic ture will be influenced by the
industry is moving in the op- alignment was first reported extent to which methane emis-
posite direction—shedding by The Wall Street Journal, sions are reduced.”
nondrug businesses to focus ahead of the companies’ an- A recent International En-
on pharmaceuticals. A Lilly engineer holds a prototype circuit board at the company’s research lab in Cambridge, Mass. nouncement Wednesday. The ergy Agency study found
Indianapolis-based Lilly, the collaboration by companies in- around 76 million tons of
first company to mass produce bridge lab this month. “To me, competition in the diabetes- drug Cialis next year. Its stock cluding Exxon, Shell, BP PLC methane are emitted every
insulin in 1923, faces competi- it’s clear where the business is device field is fierce, with sev- price has risen 8.5% in the and Total SA, shows the oil year from global oil and gas
tive pressures including the going.” Lilly’s insulin products eral companies racing to de- past 12 months, less than ri- and gas sector is proactively operations.
expected arrival of lower-cost currently generate about 20% velop insulin-delivery systems vals such as Novo Nordisk A/S trying to address burgeoning Exxon’s decision to join the
copies of its top-selling insu- of the company’s total reve- that advance toward an “arti- and Sanofi SA and below the concerns about natural-gas group leaves Chevron Corp.
lin, Humalog. And it sees nue. ficial pancreas,” or a device 11% gain in the NYSE Arca emissions to ensure that its as the only major U.S. oil
growth in the market for ad- Still, the projects are a that would completely remove Pharmaceutical index. big bet on the fossil fuel pays company that has yet to join
vanced insulin-delivery de- risky bet because Lilly will patient decision-making from Mr. Conterno declined to off. the initiative. Both of the U.S.
vices. compete with medical-device insulin delivery. specify how much Lilly is Major energy companies oil companies have lagged be-
Enrique Conterno, head of heavyweights like Medtronic Lilly has been introducing spending on its device pro- have made big investments in hind their European peers on
Lilly’s diabetes business, said PLC, which received U.S. mar- new drugs for diabetes and gram, but said “it’s a major ef- gas in recent years and are the issue of climate and
he believed Lilly’s insulin busi- keting approval for an auto- other diseases such as cancer fort.” steadily increasing their pro- Exxon hasn’t participated in
ness would become “obsolete” mated insulin-delivery device and psoriasis in recent years Lilly expects it will take duction volumes. They argue previous similar efforts to
if the company remained last year. to try to offset a wave about two to three years to that it will prove a vital source build an industry voice on
largely an insulin provider Other companies includ- of sales-eroding patent expi- get the devices to market, if of energy stability even as re- such subjects.
without delivery systems. ing Roche Holding AG, Insulet rations for former top-selling they succeed in patient studies newables increase their mar- Still, under pressure from
“Do we want to be just an Corp. and Tandem Diabetes drugs. While results have im- and pass muster with regula- ket share. investors over the past year,
insulin provider that just goes Care Inc. are also developing proved since 2014, Lilly faces tors. The company expects to But methane, the main both of the U.S. companies
into a system, or do we want automated pump systems. more challenges ahead includ- begin clinical trials in Decem- component in natural gas, is have undergone an evolution
to be the integrator of the sys- Danielle Antalffy, an analyst ing expected generic competi- ber. Lilly declined to discuss also a potent greenhouse gas in the way they address cli-
tem?” he said at the Cam- with Leerink Partners, said tion for erectile-dysfunction its pricing plans. and the issue of fugitive emis- mate change publicly.

Borrowing Benchmarks | WSJ.com/bonds

Money Rates November 23, 2017 Whistleblower Alert Scrutinized
Key annual interest rates paid to borrow or lend money in U.S. and international markets. Rates below are a
guide to general levels but don’t always represent actual transactions. BY ROLFE WINKLER founders. In their lawsuit filed their investment. In an adden-
on Nov. 16, investors allege dum to their stock-purchase
November 22, 2017 Other short-term rates Outcome Health’s chief ex- that Outcome manipulated agreement dated Feb. 28, 2017,
International rates Inflation ecutive was sent a whistle- third-party reports summariz- a copy of which was also filed
Week 52-Week
Week 52-Week Oct. index Chg From (%) Latest ago high low blower letter last year by a ing ad campaigns to make by the investors in Delaware,
Latest ago High Low level Sept. '17 Oct. '16 salesman accusing the com- them appear to be more suc- Outcome said it “does not be-
Call money
U.S. consumer price index pany of committing “ongoing cessful than they were. lieve that [the whistleblower]
Prime rates 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.25
All items 246.663 –0.06 2.0 fraud” by misleading its cus- Outcome has called both claims have any merit and is
U.S. 4.25 4.25 4.25 3.50 Commercial paper (AA financial) tomers about its services, alle- lawsuits’ allegations baseless evaluating its options for re-
Core 253.638 0.28 1.8
Canada 3.20 3.20 3.20 2.70 90 days 1.33 1.29 1.36 0.67 gations that the advertising and the company and its found- solving this matter.”
Japan 1.475 1.475 1.475 1.475 International rates
Libor startup told investors had no ers have denied wrongdoing. The investors argue in their
Week 52-Week One month 1.32750 1.26600 1.32750 0.59200 merit, according to documents “Outcome Health counsel legal brief that the claim
Policy Rates Latest ago High Low Three month 1.46233 1.42190 1.46233 0.93011
Euro zone 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Six month 1.65211 1.61810 1.65211 1.27989
filed in an investor lawsuit. who received this communica- shows Mr. Shah was “put on
Switzerland 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 Prime rates One year 1.93400 1.88622 1.93400 1.62956 The claim was made in a tion acted responsibly by en- inquiry notice” of alleged
Britain 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.25 U.S. 4.25 4.25 4.25 3.50 Euro Libor
letter dated Oct. 21, 2016, sev- gaging outside lawyers to re- fraud at the company.
Australia 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.50 Canada 3.20 3.20 3.20 2.70 One month -0.399 -0.399 -0.376 -0.405 eral months before investors, view the matter, and the The letter, filed by the
Japan 1.475 1.475 1.475 1.475 Three month -0.380 -0.379 -0.325 -0.381 including funds run by a unit outside lawyers determined plaintiffs on Wednesday as an
Overnight repurchase Six month -0.315 -0.317 -0.219 -0.322 of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. exhibit, was sent by a lawyer
Policy Rates One year -0.243 -0.251 -0.080 -0.251
U.S. 1.14 1.29 1.38 0.24 and Google parent Alphabet for Sean Bogdany, then a
Euro zone 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Euro interbank offered rate (Euribor) Inc., invested nearly $500 mil- salesman at Outcome, which at
Other short-term rates Switzerland 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 One month -0.371 -0.372 -0.366 -0.375 lion in Outcome at a valuation
Outcome Health told the time was called Context-
Britain 0.50 0.50 0.50 0.25 Three month -0.329 -0.329 -0.313 -0.332
Week 52-Week Australia 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.50 Six month -0.272 -0.275 -0.216 -0.276
the Chicago startup said was investors allegations Media Health.
One year -0.186 -0.192 -0.076 -0.192 $5.5 billion. According to court “In the course of his em-
Latest ago high low
Overnight repurchase documents, the company told
of ‘ongoing fraud’ ployment with Context, Mr.
Value 52-Week
Call money U.S. 1.14 1.29 1.38 0.24 Latest Traded High Low investors before the funding had no merit. Bogdany has learned that Con-
3.00 3.00 3.00 2.25 DTCC GCF Repo Index round that the letter had no text is committing ongoing
U.S. government rates
Treasury 1.118 32.600 1.366 0.264 merit. Outcome streams phar- fraud against its customers by
Discount MBS 1.154 73.350 1.506 0.280 maceutical advertising and ed- lying about its sales metrics,”
Libor 1.75 1.75 1.75 1.00 Open Implied ucational clips to screens it these allegations were without wrote Mr. Bogdany’s lawyer
Settle Change Interest Rate
One month 1.32862 1.28267 1.32862 0.60256 places in doctors’ offices. merit,” Outcome said in a Vince McKnight of Sanford
Federal funds DTCC GCF Repo Index Futures
Three month 1.46206 1.43567 1.46233 0.93067 The investors on Nov. 7 statement. “The company has Heisler LLP.
Effective rate 1.1700 1.1700 1.2000 0.3500 Treasury Nov 98.795 0.005 6810 1.205
Six month 1.65211 1.63171 1.65211 1.28878 1.3125 1.3125 0.5625 98.665 0.005 2027 1.335
sued Outcome and its co- always been transparent with “Context knowingly misrep-
High 1.3125 Treasury Dec
One year 1.93011 1.90067 1.93400 1.63900 Low 1.0000 1.0300 1.1600 0.2500 Treasury Jan 98.550 -0.005 459 1.450 founders, CEO Rishi Shah and information and all legal mat- resents to its customers that it
Bid 1.1600 1.1600 1.1700 0.3000 President Shradha Agarwal, in ters were fully disclosed dur- can offer them wider exposure
Euro Libor Notes on data: a New York state court alleging ing diligence. Goldman Sachs than it can. Customers are
Offer 1.1700 1.1700 1.1900 0.3200
U.S. prime rate is the base rate on corporate
One month -0.401 -0.399 -0.376 -0.405
loans posted by at least 70% of the 10 largest the executives knowingly pro- and the other investors are purchasing Context’s services
Three month -0.380 -0.379 -0.325 -0.381 Treasury bill auction U.S. banks, and is effective June 15, 2017. Other vided them with false data and now trying to destroy this pa- based on Context’s false repre-
Six month -0.316 -0.317 -0.219 -0.322 4 weeks 1.130 1.045 1.300 0.340 prime rates aren’t directly comparable; lending
financial reports before the tient-focused business and sentations that it reaches
practices vary widely by location; Discount rate
13 weeks 1.285 1.240 1.285 0.480
One year -0.248 -0.251 -0.080 -0.251 is effective June 15, 2017. DTCC GCF Repo Index funding round earlier this year. putting jobs in jeopardy for thousands of physicians/prac-
26 weeks 1.415 1.360 1.415 0.590 is Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.'s weighted
average for overnight trades in applicable The investors separately their own self-serving goals.” tices when, in fact, Context
Euro interbank offered rate (Euribor) sued a subsidiary of Outcome In a revised brief filed reaches significantly less.”
Secondary market CUSIPs. Value traded is in billions of U.S. dollars.
One month -0.372 -0.372 -0.366 -0.375 Federal-funds rates are Tullett Prebon rates as
of 5:30 p.m. ET. Futures on the DTCC GCF Repo in Delaware seeking to tempo- Wednesday in the Delaware Mr. McKnight and Mr.
Three month -0.329 -0.329 -0.313 -0.332
Fannie Mae
Index are traded on NYSE Liffe US. rarily freeze $225 million of Court of Chancery, investors Bogdany both declined to
Six month -0.271 -0.275 -0.216 -0.276 30-year mortgage yields Sources: Federal Reserve; Bureau of Labor
Statistics; DTCC; SIX Financial Information;
the investment held by the said Outcome told them about comment.
One year -0.186 -0.192 -0.076 -0.192 30 days 3.482 3.459 3.865 3.253
General Electric Capital Corp.; Tullett Prebon subsidiary that was allocated the whistleblower claim during —Peg Brickley
60 days 3.502 3.479 3.899 3.281 Information, Ltd.
as a cash distribution to the due diligence before they made contributed to this article.
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MARKETS DIGEST Data as of Wednesday, November 22, 2017

except where noted.

EQUITIES

Dow Jones Industrial Average S&P 500 Index Nasdaq Composite Index
Last Year ago Last Year ago Last Year ago
23526.18 t 64.65, or 0.27% Trailing P/E ratio 20.71 20.82 2597.08 t 1.95, or 0.08% Trailing P/E ratio 24.44 24.19 6867.36 s 4.88, or 0.07% Trailing P/E ratio * 26.10 23.75
High, low, open and close for each P/E estimate * 19.17 17.74 High, low, open and close for each P/E estimate * 19.36 18.25 High, low, open and close for each P/E estimate * 21.25 19.12
trading day of the past three months. Dividend yield 2.16 2.49 trading day of the past three months. Dividend yield 1.93 2.14 trading day of the past three months. Dividend yield 1.05 1.25
All-time high 23590.83, 11/21/17 All-time high: 2599.03, 11/21/17 All-time high: 6867.36, 11/22/17

Current divisor 0.14523396877348

23500 2600 6900

23000 2560 6750

22500 2520 6600

22000 2480 6450

Session high
65-day moving average
DOWN UP
21500 2440 65-day moving average 6300
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Session open Close

65-day moving average Close Open
t

21000 2400 6150

Session low
Bars measure the point change from session's open
20500 2360 6000
Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov.
Weekly P/E data based on as-reported earnings from Birinyi Associates Inc.

Major U.S. Stock-Market Indexes Late Trading Trading Diary

Latest 52-Week % chg Most-active and biggest movers among NYSE, NYSE Arca, NYSE Amer. Volume, Advancers, Decliners
High Low Close Net chg % chg High Low % chg YTD 3-yr. ann. and Nasdaq issues from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. ET as reported by electronic NYSE NYSE Amer.
Dow Jones trading services, securities dealers and regional exchanges. Minimum Total volume* 667,859,751 10,306,495
Industrial Average 23605.77 23507.61 23526.18 -64.65 -0.27 23590.83 19083.18 23.3 19.0 9.7 share price of $2 and minimum after-hours volume of 5,000 shares. Adv. volume* 378,850,775 6,064,086
Transportation Avg 9651.55 9609.71 9626.66 11.94 0.12 10038.13 8783.74 7.0 6.4 1.9 Most-active issues in late trading Decl. volume* 275,010,169 3,939,407
Utility Average 759.44 755.01 757.73 -0.24 -0.03 774.47 626.66 20.2 14.9 8.3 Volume After Hours Issues traded 3,064 327
Company Symbol (000) Last Net chg % chg High Low Advances 1,659 176
Total Stock Market 26979.60 26922.12 26936.00 -18.41 -0.07 26954.41 22773.93 17.3 15.7 7.9
SPDR S&P 500 SPY 7,977.2 259.61 -0.15 -0.06 260.07 259.51 Declines 1,300 134
Barron's 400 699.28 696.01 696.02 -1.78 -0.26 697.81 583.16 17.4 15.7 8.7
Marathon Oil MRO 5,920.4 14.85 -0.03 -0.20 14.90 14.85 Unchanged 105 17
Nasdaq Stock Market iShares MSCI Emg Markets EEM 4,034.4 47.75 -0.06 -0.13 47.86 47.37 New highs 179 8
Nasdaq Composite 6874.52 6859.28 6867.36 4.88 0.07 6867.36 5251.11 27.6 27.6 13.4 Weatherford International WFT 3,709.5 3.30 0.01 0.30 3.30 3.29 New lows 30 4
Nasdaq 100 6391.16 6371.74 7.49 6386.12 4734.10 31.3 Closing tick 38 17
6386.12 0.12 31.6 14.5 Intel INTC 3,363.6 44.64 -0.01 -0.02 44.67 44.55
Closing Arms† 0.84 0.80
Ford Motor F 3,067.0 12.07 … unch. 12.09 12.06
Standard & Poor's Block trades* 5,912 103
iSh Core S&P Small-Cap IJR 2,600.7 76.06 … unch. 76.06 76.03
500 Index 2600.94 2595.23 2597.08 -1.95 -0.08 2599.03 2191.08 17.8 16.0 8.0 Nasdaq NYSE Arca
Microsoft MSFT 2,211.6 83.13 0.02 0.02 83.31 83.05
MidCap 400 1863.97 1857.54 1857.91 -1.05 -0.06 1858.96 1623.28 13.6 11.9 8.8 Total volume*1,565,000,791 179,851,266
SmallCap 600 930.89 925.57 925.88 -1.93 -0.21 927.81 808.59 12.7 10.5 11.0 Percentage gainers… Adv. volume* 821,479,117 110,767,453
Decl. volume* 725,583,100 66,917,797
Other Indexes Net 1 UEPS Techs UEPS 38.3 13.25 0.97 7.90 13.52 12.28
Issues traded 3,041 1,310
Russell 2000 1524.18 1516.76 1516.76 -2.13 -0.14 1518.89 1313.80 13.0 11.8 9.0 SandRidge Energy SD 12.1 18.88 1.38 7.89 19.00 17.50
Advances 1,515 821
NYSE Composite 12416.75 12380.29 12390.82 4.94 0.04 12430.52 10808.63 14.3 12.1 4.0 Halozyme Therapeutics HALO 19.9 19.14 0.90 4.93 19.15 18.24 Declines 1,387 470
Value Line 550.25 548.30 548.43 0.13 0.02 548.43 496.60 9.0 8.3 3.0 WisdomTree Investments WETF 7.0 11.83 0.53 4.69 11.83 11.30 Unchanged 139 19
NYSE Arca Biotech 4201.12 4171.54 4194.17 16.84 0.40 4304.77 3075.02 25.4 36.4 7.9
Enel Chile ADR ENIC 29.0 5.50 0.18 3.34 5.50 5.42 New highs 245 281
New lows 30 34
NYSE Arca Pharma 537.96 534.95 536.14 0.53 0.10 560.52 463.78 14.1 11.3 -0.4 ...And losers
Closing tick 55 8
KBW Bank 99.92 99.18 99.19 -0.28 -0.29 102.31 85.30 14.4 8.1 10.9 WPX Energy WPX 25.4 11.34 -1.18 -9.42 12.52 11.34 Closing Arms† 0.96 1.17
PHLX§ Gold/Silver 81.88 81.12 81.75 1.09 1.35 96.72 73.03 3.6 3.7 3.5 Tahoe Resources TAHO 39.6 4.49 -0.23 -4.87 4.72 4.49 Block trades* 5,249 1,079
PHLX§ Oil Service 132.05 131.21 131.56 1.37 1.05 192.66 117.79 -22.1 -28.4 -19.2 CBRE Group CBG 95.2 40.86 -1.63 -3.84 42.66 40.86 * Primary market NYSE, NYSE American NYSE Arca only.
PHLX§ Semiconductor 1340.47 1327.04 1329.10 -8.82 -0.66 1337.92 836.79 49.5 46.6 26.1 Delphi Technologies Wi DLPH@ 21.4 50.00 -1.90 -3.66 50.20 50.00 †(TRIN) A comparison of the number of advancing and declining
CBOE Volatility 9.88 9.32 0.15 16.04 9.14 -20.5 -29.6 issues with the volume of shares rising and falling. An
9.88 1.54 -8.5 Michaels Cos. MIK 47.7 18.50 -0.56 -2.94 19.06 18.50 Arms of less than 1 indicates buying demand; above 1

Philadelphia Stock Exchange Sources: SIX Financial Information; WSJ Market Data Group indicates selling pressure.

International Stock Indexes on Thursday Percentage Gainers... Percentage Losers

Latest YTD
Region/Country Index Close Net chg % chg % chg Latest Session 52-Week Latest Session 52-Week
Company Symbol Close Net chg % chg High Low % chg Company Symbol Close Net chg % chg High Low % chg
World The Global Dow 2984.37 3.73 0.13 17.9 Cleantech Solutions Intl CLNT 7.10 2.65 59.55 12.40 2.31 133.6 CHF Solutions CHFS 4.35 -3.53 -44.80 576.00 3.60 -96.0
DJ Global Index 388.42 0.44 0.11 19.1 Riot Blockchain RIOT 15.99 4.73 42.01 16.14 2.66 481.5 Atlantic Acquisition ATAC 9.89 -5.11 -34.07 15.00 9.75 ...
DJ Global ex U.S. 262.22 0.59 0.23 22.6 Social Reality Cl A SRAX 5.82 1.59 37.59 6.85 1.11 -4.6 PPDAI Group ADR PPDF 8.18 -2.62 -24.26 14.63 8.05 ...
Americas DJ Americas 625.22 0.05 0.01 15.7 LM Funding America LMFA 3.01 0.77 34.38 5.93 1.11 -36.1 Iconix Brand Group ICON 2.05 -0.50 -19.61 10.80 1.44 -79.4
Brazil Sao Paulo Bovespa 74486.58 –32.22 –0.04 23.7 Eltek ELTK 4.88 1.13 30.13 8.95 0.53 454.5 Diana Containerships DCIX 7.37 -1.62 -18.02 226894.50 1.56 -100.0
Canada S&P/TSX Comp 16074.30 0.72 0.004 5.1 Net 1 UEPS Techs UEPS 12.28 2.16 21.34 13.81 8.87 9.8 Baozun ADR BZUN 29.51 -6.03 -16.97 40.65 10.87 82.2
Mexico S&P/BMV IPC 48136.24 –60.65 –0.13 5.5 CASI Pharmaceuticals CASI 3.63 0.61 20.20 4.84 0.91 125.5 Qudian ADR QD 16.15 -3.16 -16.36 35.45 16.00 ...
Chile Santiago IPSA 3816.12 –73.74 –1.90 18.4 Atomera ATOM 4.67 0.78 20.05 7.64 2.45 -31.8 Ekso Bionics Holdings EKSO 3.49 -0.64 -15.50 4.90 0.99 -21.2
0.02 Remark Holdings MARK 8.54 1.39 19.44 9.35 1.93 86.9 Guess GES 15.62 -2.33 -12.98 18.30 9.56 -2.4
EMEA Stoxx Europe 600 387.12 0.06 7.1
0.25 Iteris ITI 6.82 1.07 18.61 8.17 3.20 102.1 Jianpu Technology ADR JT 5.75 -0.85 -12.88 8.43 5.50 ...
Eurozone Euro Stoxx 389.14 0.96 11.1
Belgium Bel-20 3978.19 9.00 0.23 10.3 Aytu BioScience AYTU 3.03 0.43 16.54 6.82 0.17 163.5 Collegium Pharmaceutical COLL 16.30 -2.28 -12.27 19.21 7.37 -4.3
France CAC 40 5379.54 26.78 0.50 10.6 Ovid Therapeutics OVID 11.21 1.47 15.09 15.93 5.28 ... ELEMENTS Rogers Energy RJN 2.36 -0.30 -11.28 3.72 1.94 -3.3
Germany DAX 13008.55 –6.49 –0.05 13.3 Ashford AINC 105.00 12.00 12.90 108.00 39.82 163.7 Novelion Therapeutics NVLN 4.02 -0.50 -11.06 13.80 3.92 -55.8
Israel Tel Aviv 1432.71 14.99 1.06 –2.6 Yulong Eco-Materials YECO 4.23 0.48 12.80 9.00 0.50 -46.8 Internet Gold-Golden IGLD 6.76 -0.84 -11.05 12.89 5.86 -43.4
0.37 16.4 Central European Media A CETV 4.85 0.55 12.79 5.10 2.40 79.6 Fidelity D&D Bancorp FDBC 39.50 -4.50 -10.23 44.00 22.70 64.6
Italy FTSE MIB 22397.78 82.54
Netherlands AEX 541.35 1.33 0.25 12.0
Russia RTS Index 1158.62 –0.49 –0.04 0.5 Most Active Stocks Volume Movers Ranked by change from 65-day average*
Spain IBEX 35 10032.80 18.90 0.19 7.3
Volume % chg from Latest Session 52-Week Volume % chg from Latest Session 52-Week
Sweden SX All Share 576.28 –1.59 –0.28 7.8 Company Symbol (000) 65-day avg Close % chg High Low Company Symbol (000) 65-day avg Close % chg High Low
Switzerland Swiss Market 9315.56 23.72 0.26 13.3
iShares MSCI Emg Markets EEM 56,730 16.8 47.81 0.25 47.93 33.94 Riot Blockchain RIOT 12,958 1945 15.99 42.01 16.14 2.66
U.K. FTSE 100 7417.24 –1.78 –0.02 3.8
General Electric GE 52,621 -25.2 18.15 1.79 32.38 17.46 Virtus Newflt Dyn Credit BLHY 287 1534 25.10 0.42 26.98 23.01
Asia-Pacific Square Cl A SQ 44,271 364.2 48.81 1.56 49.55 12.32 CHF Solutions CHFS 3,014 1079 4.35 -44.80 576.00 3.60
Australia S&P/ASX 200 5986.20 –0.20 –0.003 5.7 Hewlett Packard Ent HPE 41,735 211.6 13.10 -7.22 15.12 12.70 KraneShs Bosera China A KBA 553 981 36.01 -0.28 36.13 26.55
China Shanghai Composite 3351.92 –78.55 –2.29 8.0 SPDR S&P 500 SPY 37,004 -40.3 259.76 -0.09 260.20 219.15 Vanguard Russ 1000 Value VONV 273 841 104.81 -0.01 105.65 95.39
Hong Kong Hang Seng 29707.94 –295.55 –0.99 35.0 Bank of America BAC 36,617 -43.0 26.66 -0.26 27.98 20.20 PDF Solutions PDFS 1,527 800 16.72 5.42 24.44 14.11
India S&P BSE Sensex 33588.08 26.53 0.08 26.1 Ford Motor F 33,114 -6.4 12.07 -0.41 13.27 10.47 Axalta Coating Systems AXTA 21,790 716 35.50 4.81 36.10 24.72
Japan Nikkei Stock Avg 22523.15 … Closed 17.8 Vale ADR VALE 32,671 15.8 10.77 2.96 11.72 7.47 PIMCO Short Term Mun Bd SMMU 39 675 50.14 -0.22 50.80 48.75
Singapore Straits Times 3423.17 –6.85 –0.20 18.8 VanEck Vectors Gold Miner GDX 30,965 -20.5 22.92 0.88 25.71 18.58 Resonant Inc. RESN 762 648 5.95 2.59 6.23 3.82
South Korea Kospi 2537.15 –3.36 –0.13 25.2 Finl Select Sector SPDR XLF 30,465 -40.5 26.23 -0.49 26.93 22.00 Guggenheim BS 2021 HY BSJL 722 647 25.08 0.12 25.32 24.31
Taiwan Weighted 10854.57 31.98 0.30 17.3 * Volumes of 100,000 shares or more are rounded to the nearest thousand * Common stocks priced at $5 a share or more with an average volume over 65 trading days of at least
Sources: SIX Financial Information; WSJ Market Data Group 5,000 shares =Has traded fewer than 65 days

CREDIT MARKETS & CURRENCIES Currencies

U.S.-dollar foreign-exchange rates in late New York trading
Consumer Rates and Returns to Investor Benchmark
Treasury Yields
yield curve Forex Race US$vs, US$vs,
andtoRates
Yield maturity of current bills, Yen, euro vs. dollar; dollar vs. Country/currency
Thurs YTDchg
in US$ per US$ (%) Country/currency
Thurs YTDchg
in US$ per US$ (%)
U.S. consumer rates Selected rates notes and bonds major U.S. trading partners
Americas Europe
A consumer rate against its Money market accounts
3.75% Argentina peso .0575 17.3945 9.6 Czech Rep. koruna .04660 21.458 –16.5
benchmark over the past year 10% Brazil real .3104 3.2218 –1.0 Denmark krone .1592 6.2808 –11.2
Bankrate.com avg†: 0.32% s
3.00 Euro Canada dollar .7864 1.2716 –5.4 Euro area euro 1.1850 .8439 –11.2
American Express Bank, FSB 1.25% 5
Chile peso .001575 635.10 –5.2 Hungary forint .003792 263.69 –10.4
Federal-funds 0.90% New York, NY 866-215-8754 2.25 Ecuador US dollar 1 1 unch Iceland krona .009658 103.54 –8.3
t

target rate 0
Capital One 360 1.30% Mexico peso .0537 18.6241 –10.2 Norway krone .1229 8.1358 –5.9
Wednesday
t

0.60 1.50 Uruguay peso .03406 29.3600 0.03 Poland zloty .2816 3.5518 –15.2
Glen Allen, VA 877-464-0333 –5
s Yen Venezuela b. fuerte .097334 10.2740 2.8 Russia ruble .01711 58.456 –4.6
0.30 Goldman Sachs Bank USA 1.30% 0.75 –10 Sweden krona .1205 8.2973 –8.9
t s Asia-Pacific
One year ago
t

New York, NY 855-730-7283 WSJ Dollar index Switzerland franc 1.0185 .9818 –3.6
Money market 0.00 –15 Australian dollar .7626 1.3113 –5.6
0.00 DollarSavingsDirect 1.50% Turkey lira .2551 3.9201 11.3
account yields China yuan .1519 6.5836 –5.2
1 3 6 1 2 3 5 710 30 2017 Ukraine hryvnia .0377 26.5450 –2.0
New York, NY 866-395-8693 Hong Kong dollar .1280 7.8115 0.7
–0.30 month(s) years UK pound 1.3307 .7515 –7.2
Salem Five Direct 1.50% India rupee .01548 64.584 –5.0
D J F MAM J J A S O N maturity Indonesia rupiah .0000742 13483 –0.3 Middle East/Africa
2017 Salem, MA 800-850-5000
Japan yen .008992 111.21 –4.9 Bahrain dinar 2.6477 .3777 0.1
Sources: Ryan ALM; Tullett Prebon; WSJ Market Data Group
Kazakhstan tenge .003030 330.05 –1.1 Egypt pound .0565 17.6893 –2.4
Yield/Rate (%) 52-Week Range (%) 3-yr chg Macau pataca .1245 8.0340 1.5 Israel shekel .2848 3.5107 –8.8
Interest rate Last (l)Week ago Low 0 2 4 6 8 High (pct pts)
Malaysia ringgit .2434 4.1082 –8.4 Kuwait dinar 3.3118 .3020 –1.2
Federal-funds rate target 1.00-1.25 1.00-1.25 0.25 l 1.25 1.00 Corporate Borrowing Rates and Yields New Zealand dollar .6891 1.4512 0.5 Oman sul rial 2.5970 .3851 0.02
Pakistan rupee .00950 105.295 0.9 Qatar rial .2747 3.641 0.02
Prime rate* 4.25 4.25 3.50 l 4.25 1.00 Yield (%) 52-Week Total Return (%)
Bond total return index Close Last Week ago High Low 52-wk 3-yr Philippines peso .0198 50.514 1.8 Saudi Arabia riyal .2666 3.7504 –0.01
Libor, 3-month 1.46 1.42 0.93 l 1.46 1.23 Singapore dollar .7434 1.3452 –7.1 South Africa rand .0720 13.8822 1.4
Money market, annual yield 0.32 0.33 0.26 l 0.36 -0.11 Treasury, Ryan ALM 1465.688 2.147 2.143 2.237 1.818 2.809 2.053 South Korea won .0009225 1084.00 –10.3
Five-year CD, annual yield 1.48 1.48 1.19 l 1.49 -0.08 .0065053 153.72 3.6 Close Net Chg % Chg YTD%Chg
10-yr Treasury, Ryan ALM 1738.674 2.322 2.335 2.609 2.058 2.581 1.864 Sri Lanka rupee
30-year mortgage, fixed† 3.91 3.92 3.73 l 4.33 -0.09 Taiwan dollar .03333 30.004 –7.6 WSJ Dollar Index 86.52 –0.08–0.09 –6.90
DJ Corporate 380.287 3.113 3.157 3.390 2.879 6.149 4.063
Thailand baht .03061 32.670 –8.8 Sources: Tullett Prebon, WSJ Market Data Group
15-year mortgage, fixed† 3.31 3.31 2.99 l 3.50 0.11 Aggregate, Barclays Capital 1944.810 2.650 2.640 2.790 2.380 3.509 2.432 Vietnam dong .00004400 22727 –0.2
Jumbo mortgages, $424,100-plus† 4.29 4.28 4.21 l 4.88 -0.01 High Yield 100, Merrill Lynch 2848.789 5.534 5.835 6.144 4.948 8.133 4.084
Five-year adj mortgage (ARM)† 3.72 3.54 3.20 l 4.03 0.22
Fixed-Rate MBS, Barclays 1989.630 2.900 2.870 3.120 2.660 2.341 2.041
New-car loan, 48-month 3.01 3.01 2.85 l 3.36 -0.18
Bankrate.com rates based on survey of over 4,800 online banks. *Base rate posted by 70% of the nation's largest
Muni Master, Merrill 519.740 2.126 2.024 2.516 1.736 4.600 2.568 COMMODITIES
banks.† Excludes closing costs.
Sources: SIX Financial Information; WSJ Market Data Group; Bankrate.com
EMBI Global, J.P. Morgan 802.608 5.562 5.635 6.290 5.279 10.227 5.683 Commodities Wednesday 52-Week YTD
Sources: J.P. Morgan; Ryan ALM; S&P Dow Jones Indices; Barclays Capital; Merrill Lynch Pricing trends on someClose
raw materials, or commodities
Net chg % Chg High Low % Chg % chg

DJ Commodity 615.91 4.40 0.72 616.58 532.01 11.21 8.58

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COMMODITIES WSJ.com/commodities

Futures Contracts | WSJ.com/commodities Open

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Rough Rice (CBT)-2,000 cwt.; $ per cwt. 30 Day Federal Funds (CBT)-$5,000,000; 100 - daily avg. Sept .7541 .7541 .7533 .7606 .0032 63
Metal & Petroleum Futures Nov 98.845 98.845 98.843 98.843 … 205,856 Dec … … s … .7605 .0033 3
Jan 1231.00 1243.00 1225.00 1242.00 8.00 8,876
Contract Open
March 1263.00 1271.00 1259.00 1271.50 8.50 1,488 Jan'18 98.605 98.610 t 98.605 98.610 .005 339,462 Mexican Peso (CME)-MXN 500,000; $ per MXN
Open High hi lo Low Settle Chg interest 10 Yr. Del. Int. Rate Swaps (CBT)-$100,000; pts 32nds of 100% Dec .05300 .05353 .05286 .05350 .00050 178,696
Wheat (CBT)-5,000 bu.; cents per bu.
Copper-High (CMX)-25,000 lbs.; $ per lb. Dec 424.75 426.25 420.75 422.75 –2.00 108,758 Dec 100.828 101.250 100.797 101.234 .375 28,112 March'18 .05219 .05271 .05208 .05269 .00049 804
Nov 3.1345 3.1360 3.1345 3.1345 0.0090 358 March'18 441.25 444.50 438.50 440.75 –.50 250,604 1 Month Libor (CME)-$3,000,000; pts of 100% Euro (CME)-€125,000; $ per €
March'18 3.1505 3.1665 3.1405 3.1590 0.0085 135,187 Wheat (KC)-5,000 bu.; cents per bu. Dec 98.5250 t 98.5000 98.5200 –.0025
98.5250 2,764 Dec 1.1752 1.1844 1.1749 1.1840 .0081 450,036
Gold (CMX)-100 troy oz.; $ per troy oz. Dec 420.00 424.75 418.00 421.00 .75 50,849 Jan'18 98.5200 t 98.5200 98.5425 .0200
98.5200 1,927 March'18 1.1824 1.1912 1.1821 1.1910 .0081 7,434
Nov 1284.70 1284.70 1282.90 1291.60 10.50 9 March'18 437.00 442.50 435.25 438.50 .75 170,769 Eurodollar (CME)-$1,000,000; pts of 100%
Dec 1280.60 1294.60 1278.60 1292.20 10.50 205,662
Wheat (MPLS)-5,000 bu.; cents per bu. Dec 98.4475 98.4525 98.4450 98.4500 .0025 1,663,111
Index Futures
Feb'18 1284.80 1299.00 1283.10 1296.80 10.60 243,459
Dec 626.50 631.50 624.75 626.75 –.25 20,712 March'18 98.2600 98.2900 98.2600 98.2850 .0200 1,471,338
April 1289.30 1303.10 1288.50 1301.10 10.60 24,700
June 1295.00 1307.30 1292.30 1305.50 10.60 23,490
March'18 640.25 646.25 639.25 641.25 … 35,691 June 98.1150 98.1500 98.1150 98.1450 .0300 1,293,478 Mini DJ Industrial Average (CBT)-$5 x index
Cattle-Feeder (CME)-50,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Dec 97.9450 98.0000 97.9400 98.0000 .0500 1,658,430 Dec 23550 23599 s 23476 23485 –58 152,920
Dec 1310.10 1319.90 1310.10 1318.90 10.60 12,218
Nov 157.775 157.925 157.575 157.775 … 2,642 March'18 23550 23593 s 23478 23481 –56 2,636
Palladium (NYM) - 50 troy oz.; $ per troy oz. Jan'18 152.750 153.425 152.475 152.725 1.100 26,226
Dec 997.05 1003.30 994.00 1001.95 5.45 12,193 Currency Futures S&P 500 Index (CME)-$250 x index
March'18 995.70 1000.95 992.30 1000.05 6.05 21,817
Cattle-Live (CME)-40,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Dec 2595.00 2599.90 s 2593.30 2594.60 –1.70 67,511
Dec 119.200 119.825 118.825 119.050 1.075 45,988 Japanese Yen (CME)-¥12,500,000; $ per 100¥ March'18 2599.50 2599.50 s 2595.50 2595.70 –1.80 5,220
Platinum (NYM)-50 troy oz.; $ per troy oz.
Feb'18 125.000 125.950 124.850 125.475 1.425 155,591 .8899 .9007 .8899 .9005 .0103 253,684
Nov 928.20 928.20 926.40 937.60 2.80 4 Dec Mini S&P 500 (CME)-$50 x index
Jan'18 935.80 944.30 932.50 940.70 2.70 68,439
Hogs-Lean (CME)-40,000 lbs.; cents per lb. March'18 .8965 .9052 .8959 .9052 .0102 4,773 Dec 2595.75 2600.00 s 2592.75 2594.50 –1.75 3,213,608
Dec 61.250 62.900 60.950 62.825 2.125 37,599
Silver (CMX)-5,000 troy oz.; $ per troy oz. Canadian Dollar (CME)-CAD 100,000; $ per CAD March'18 2596.75 2601.25 s 2594.00 2595.75 –1.75 108,743
Nov 17.101 0.152 1 Feb'18 67.150 69.150 66.875 69.100 2.150 93,004
Dec .7828 .7880 .7825 .7874 .0044 137,336 Mini S&P Midcap 400 (CME)-$100 x index
March'18 17.050 17.255 17.030 17.216 0.154 104,383 Lumber (CME)-110,000 bd. ft., $ per 1,000 bd. ft. March'18 .7841 .7885 .7836 .7883 .0043 3,738 Dec 1856.30 1863.70 s 1854.60 1857.30 –1.40 94,485
Crude Oil, Light Sweet (NYM)-1,000 bbls.; $ per bbl. Jan 435.00 435.30 426.70 427.50 –3.80 5,467
March 422.40 422.40 416.40 417.10 –3.20 964
British Pound (CME)-£62,500; $ per £ Mini Nasdaq 100 (CME)-$20 x index
Jan 57.12 58.15 57.03 58.02 1.19 592,315 1.3252 1.3340 1.3222 1.3330 .0085 168,749
Milk (CME)-200,000 lbs., cents per lb. Dec Dec 6381.3 6395.3 s 6375.3 6389.5 10.0 291,741
Feb 57.26 58.13 57.10 58.02 1.10 204,290
Nov 16.80 16.84 16.78 16.80 –.02 4,285 March'18 1.3300 1.3379 1.3270 1.3373 .0084 4,067 March'18 6396.5 6411.5 s 6392.8 6406.3 10.3 2,583
March 57.19 58.05 57.10 57.94 0.98 297,369
Dec 15.38 15.55 15.31 15.42 .05 4,404 Swiss Franc (CME)-CHF 125,000; $ per CHF Mini Russell 2000 (ICE-US)-$100 x index
April 57.07 57.88 57.04 57.78 0.86 131,174
Cocoa (ICE-US)-10 metric tons; $ per ton. Dec 1.0103 1.0207 1.0101 1.0202 .0105 82,547 Dec 1517.10 1526.20 s 1495.00 1516.50 –2.10 68,763
June 56.71 57.37 56.63 57.24 0.67 240,127
Dec 54.65 55.27 54.61 55.16 0.56 264,921 Dec 2,119 2,119 2,119 2,119 17 407 March'18 1.0185 1.0279 1.0181 1.0276 .0105 312 March'18 1524.00 1527.40 s 1506.60 1518.00 –2.10 112
NY Harbor ULSD (NYM)-42,000 gal.; $ per gal. March'18 2,116 2,131 2,109 2,124 14 135,706 Australian Dollar (CME)-AUD 100,000; $ per AUD Mini Russell 1000 (ICE-US)-$100 x index
Dec 1.9395 1.9543 1.9243 1.9326 –.0033 51,955 Coffee (ICE-US)-37,500 lbs.; cents per lb. Dec .7575 .7622 .7553 .7612 .0031 129,909 Dec 1441.80 1442.20 s 1439.40 1435.70 –5.40 323
Jan'18 1.9459 1.9577 1.9270 1.9357 –.0024 130,241 Dec 124.10 125.10 123.85 124.55 .70 3,790 Jan'18 .7577 .7620 .7559 .7611 .0032 814 U.S. Dollar Index (ICE-US)-$1,000 x index
Gasoline-NY RBOB (NYM)-42,000 gal.; $ per gal. March'18 126.50 127.80 126.35 127.00 .35 121,375 Feb .7557 .7606 .7555 .7610 .0032 402 Dec 93.86 93.88 93.12 93.14 –.74 36,626
Dec 1.7661 1.7825 1.7600 1.7679 –.0052 61,369 Sugar-World (ICE-US)-112,000 lbs.; cents per lb. March .7580 .7614 .7550 .7608 .0031 1,509 March'18 93.53 93.55 92.82 92.82 –.73 2,724
Jan'18 1.7604 1.7774 1.7537 1.7619 –.0030 176,028 March 14.92 15.31 14.90 15.28 .40 380,098 April .7612 .7612 .7612 .7608 .0031 11
Natural Gas (NYM)-10,000 MMBtu.; $ per MMBtu. May 14.93 15.24 14.92 15.21 .31 133,867 June .7583 .7614 .7581 .7607 .0032 264 Source: SIX Financial Information
Dec 3.013 3.027 2.955 2.968 –.049 47,920 Sugar-Domestic (ICE-US)-112,000 lbs.; cents per lb.
Jan'18 3.110 3.120 3.049 3.059 –.051 341,172 March 27.38 27.38 27.38 27.38 .13 2,788
Feb 3.111 3.120 3.054 3.064 –.046 117,417 May 27.25 27.25 27.06 27.06 –.21 2,135
March
April
3.076
2.934
3.087
2.941
3.025
2.901
3.034 –.044
2.910 –.030
183,828
126,515
Cotton (ICE-US)-50,000 lbs.; cents per lb.
Dec 70.90 72.41 70.50 70.74 –.16 2,898
Bonds | WSJ.com/bonds
May 2.922 2.928 2.893 2.902 –.026 99,970 March'18 70.14 71.76 69.88 71.14 1.00 154,202
Orange Juice (ICE-US)-15,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Tracking Bond Benchmarks
Agriculture Futures Dec … … s … 166.80 … Return on investment and spreads over Treasurys and/or yields paid to investors compared with 52-week
Jan'18 165.70 167.05 165.05 166.75 … 8,146
Corn (CBT)-5,000 bu.; cents per bu. highs and lows for different types of bonds
Dec 344.25 347.00 344.00 345.25 .25 365,980 Total Total
March'18 355.50 358.00 355.25 357.00 .75 707,909 Interest Rate Futures return YTD total return YTD total
Yield (%) Yield (%)
Oats (CBT)-5,000 bu.; cents per bu. Treasury Bonds (CBT)-$100,000; pts 32nds of 100% close return (%) Index Latest Low High close return (%) Index Latest Low High
Dec 256.25 259.00 250.50 250.75 –5.00 1,965 Dec 154-060 154-200 153-170 154-160 13.0 672,441
March'18 272.25 274.75 266.50 266.50 –5.00 4,999 March'18 153-000 153-160 152-140 153-120 13.0 172,619 Broad Market Bloomberg Barclays Mortgage-Backed Bloomberg Barclays
Soybeans (CBT)-5,000 bu.; cents per bu. Treasury Notes (CBT)-$100,000; pts 32nds of 100%
Jan 988.50 999.50 987.50 997.25 8.25 318,586 1944.81 3.5 U.S. Aggregate 2.650 2.380 2.790 1989.63 2.5 Mortgage-Backed 2.900 2.660 3.120
Dec 124-235 125-045 124-195 125-035 13.5 2,999,705
March 999.50 1010.50 998.75 1008.50 8.25 147,932 March'18 124-150 124-285 124-110 124-275 14.0 602,696 U.S. Corporate Indexes Bloomberg Barclays 1955.75 1.9 Ginnie Mae (GNMA) 2.850 2.630 3.090
Soybean Meal (CBT)-100 tons; $ per ton. 5 Yr. Treasury Notes (CBT)-$100,000; pts 32nds of 100%
Dec 318.40 325.30 317.80 324.40 6.10 52,185 Dec 116-225 117-000 116-215 116-315 9.7 2,693,379 2786.95 5.9 U.S. Corporate 3.210 3.030 3.520 1167.27 2.7 Fannie mae (FNMA) 2.910 2.670 3.120
Jan'18 320.30 327.40 319.90 326.70 6.30 122,861
March'18 116-160 116-255 116-147 116-252 9.7 814,732
3.8 Intermediate 1797.11 2.7 Freddie Mac (FHLMC) 2.930 2.680 3.130
Soybean Oil (CBT)-60,000 lbs.; cents per lb. 2619.48 2.800 2.530 3.010
2 Yr. Treasury Notes (CBT)-$200,000; pts 32nds of 100%
Dec 34.17 34.48 33.96 34.05 –.12 78,226 519.74 4.2 Muni Master 2.126 1.736 2.516
Dec 107-125 107-160 107-125 107-157 3.2 1,575,755 3885.51 10.5 Long term 4.090 4.090 4.710
Jan'18 34.29 34.64 34.10 34.20 –.12 144,024 March'18 107-065 107-100 107-065 107-100 3.5 416,578
568.68 4.4 Double-A-rated 2.710 2.470 2.870 363.40 4.6 7-12 year 2.112 1.744 2.618
719.51 6.5 Triple-B-rated 3.500 3.340 3.870 408.51 5.9 12-22 year 2.521 2.213 3.047
Macro & Market Economics High Yield Bonds Merrill Lynch 395.15 6.5 22-plus year 2.924 2.770 3.622

Watching the Gauges: U.S. Supply and Demand 415.75 7.0 High Yield Constrained 5.769 5.373 6.579 Global Government J.P. Morgan†
415.98 8.2 Triple-C-rated 10.780 9.584 12.718 545.67 1.6 Global Government 1.400 1.300 1.560
Inventories, imports and demand for the week ended November 17. Current figures are in thousands of barrels
or thousands of gallons per day, except natural-gas figures, which are in billions of cubic feet. Natural-gas 2848.79 6.2 High Yield 100 5.534 4.948 6.144 758.46 0.7 Canada 1.980 1.570 2.190
import Natural-gas import and demand data are available monthly only. 377.66 7.2 Global High Yield Constrained 5.235 4.934 6.222 373.77 1.3 EMU§ 1.010 0.933 1.363
Inventories, 000s barrels Imports, 000s barrels per day 306.45 6.8 Europe High Yield Constrained 2.262 1.897 3.814 717.10 1.5 France 0.740 0.710 1.210
Expected Previous Year 4-week 5-year Expected Previous Year 4-week 5-year U.S Agency Bloomberg Barclays 510.49 -0.8 Germany 0.420 0.210 0.620
Current change week ago avg avg Current change week ago avg avg
1640.70 2.2 U.S Agency 2.060 1.660 2.100 288.75 0.2 Japan 0.380 0.270 0.460
Crude oil and
1464.98 1.3 10-20 years 1.920 1.470 1.970 564.26 -0.4 Netherlands 0.530 0.360 0.760
petroleum prod 1,259,721 ... 1,260 1,341 1,261 1,191 9,795 ... 9,981 9,951 9,739 9,766
3390.84 8.4 20-plus years 2.890 2.730 3.460 922.20 1.0 U.K. 1.580 1.340 1.790
Crude oil
excluding SPR 457,142 -1,500 459 489 457 423 ... 7,898 7,578 7,680 7,727 2460.37 4.9 Yankee 2.880 2.610 3.090 802.61 8.6 Emerging Markets ** 5.562 5.279 6.290
7,873
*Constrained indexes limit individual issuer concentrations to 2%; the High Yield 100 are the 100 largest bonds † In local currency § Euro-zone bonds
Gasoline 210,475 ... 210 224 211 215 514 ... 349 855 452 644
** EMBI Global Index Sources: Merrill Lynch; Bloomberg Barclays; J.P.Morgan
Finished gasoline 21,810 100 21 24 22 35 40 ... 13 53 18 32
Reformulated 50 ... 0 0 0 0 0 ... 0 0 0 0 Global Government Bonds: Mapping Yields
Conventional 21,760 ... 21 24 22 35 40 ... 13 53 18 32 Yields and spreads over or under U.S. Treasurys on benchmark two-year and 10-year government bonds in
Blend. components 188,665 ... 189 200 189 180 474 ... 336 803 434 613 selected other countries; arrows indicate whether the yield rose(s) or fell (t) in the latest session
Natural gas (bcf) 3,772 ... 4 4 4 4 ... ... ... ... ... ... Country/ Yield (%) Spread Under/Over U.S. Treasurys, in basis points
Coupon (%) Maturity, in years Latest(l) 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 Previous Month ago Year ago Latest Prev Year ago
Kerosene-type 1.500 U.S. 2 1.731 l 1.731 1.581 1.126
jet fuel 41,240 ... 40 42 41 39 162 ... 309 143 233 59 2.250 10 2.319 l 2.319 2.369 2.353
Distillates 125,032 -1,400 125 149 126 129 190 ... 161 136 144 176 2.750 Australia 2 1.773 t l 1.784 1.952 1.743 4.2 5.3 61.7
Heating oil 9,771 ... 10 15 10 19 6 ... 102 36 37 31 2.750 10 2.520 t l 2.535 2.808 2.718 20.1 21.7 36.6
Diesel 115,260 ... 115 135 116 110 183 ... 59 100 106 145 0.000 France 2 -0.563 s l -0.575 -0.527 -0.625 -229.4 -230.5 -175.1
Residual fuel oil 34,133 ... 34 40 34 39 210 ... 207 92 169 231 0.750 10 0.678 s l 0.669 0.713 0.788 -164.1 -165.0 -156.5
Other oils 296,088 ... 295 275 295 246 701 ... 909 980 917 776 0.000 Germany 2 -0.690 s l -0.696 -0.717 -0.696 -242.1 -242.7 -182.2
0.500 10 0.350 t l 0.352 0.436 0.263 -196.9 -196.6 -208.9
Net crude, petroleum
0.050 Italy 2 -0.297 s l -0.311 -0.162 0.049 -202.7 -204.2 -107.7
products, incl. SPR 1,927,196 ... 1,929 2,036 1,930 1,885 2,783 ... 3,839 5,139 3,067 5,822
2.050 10 1.778 s l 1.766 2.008 2.132 -54.0 -55.3 -22.1
0.100 Japan 2 -0.192 l -0.192 -0.134 -0.161 -192.3 -192.3 -128.7
Weekly Demand, 000s barrels per day Natural gas storage 0.100 10 0.025 l 0.025 0.070 0.030 -229.3 -229.3 -232.3
Expected Previous Year 4-week 5-year Billions of cubic feet; weekly totals 2.750 Spain 2 -0.354 s l -0.362 -0.287 -0.144 -208.5 -209.3 -127.0
Current change week ago avg avg 1.450 10 1.459 t l 1.459 1.623 1.593 -85.9 -76.0
-86.0
Total petroleum 1.750 U.K. 2 0.450 t l 0.470 0.440 0.131 -128.1 -126.1 -99.5
4250
product 19,289 ... 19,755 20,034 19,882 19,553 4.250 10 1.252 t l 1.279 1.315 1.321 -106.7 -103.9 -103.1
Finished Natural gas, 3250 Source: Tullett Prebon
lower 48 states t
motor gasoline 9,595 ... 9,172 9,024 9,431 9,003
Kerosene-type
t
2250 Corporate Debt
Five-year average in that same company’s share price.
jet fuel 1,630 ... 1,794 1,919 1,722 1,506
for each week 1250
Distillates 4,057 ... 4,029 4,121 4,027 3,631 Investment-grade spreads that tightened the most…
Residual fuel oil 323 ... 79 384 216 275 Spread*, in basis points Stock Performance
Propane/propylene 1,119 ... 1,522 820 1,186 ... 250 Issuer Symbol Coupon (%) Maturity Current One-day change Last week Close ($) % chg
Other oils 2,565 ... 3,160 3,765 3,302 ... D J F M A M J J A S O N
2017
JPMorgan Chase JPM 7.900 April 30, ’49 50 –29 n.a. 98.64 –0.29
Note: Expected changes are provided by Dow Jones Newswires' survey of analysts. Previous and average inventory data are in millions. Viacom VIA 5.875 Feb. 28, ’57 353 –19 n.a. 32.90 –1.35
Sources: SIX Financial Information via WSJ Market Data Group; U.S. Energy Information Administration; Dow Jones Newswires Qualcomm QCOM 2.600 Jan. 30, ’23 93 –18 122 68.13 2.19
Teva Pharmaceutical Finance IV TEVA 3.650 Nov. 10, ’21 288 –17 390 … …
General Electric GE 5.000 Jan. 21, ’49 114 –13 138 18.15 1.79
Cash Prices | WSJ.com/commodities Thursday, November 23, 2017 HSBC Bank HSBC 4.125 Aug. 12, ’20 35 –12 50 … …
Comcast CMCSA 3.400 July 15, ’46 113 –9 123 36.41 –0.03
These prices reflect buying and selling of a variety of actual or “physical” commodities in the marketplace—
Cameron International SLB 4.000 Dec. 15, ’23 123 –9 n.a. … …
separate from the futures price on an exchange, which reflects what the commodity might be worth in future
months. …And spreads that widened the most
Thursday Shell International Finance BV* RDSALN 2.125 May 11, ’20 43 15 28 ... ...
Wednesday Wednesday
Metals Maple Leaf-e 1357.39 SoybeanMeal,Cent IL,rail,ton48%-u 320.90 Morgan Stanley MS 3.625 Jan. 20, ’27 103 10 111 49.09 –0.59
American Eagle-e 1357.39 Soybeans,No.1 yllw IL-bp,u 9.5800 PNC Bank NA PNC 2.300 June 1, ’20 50 9 38 … …
Gold, per troy oz Mexican peso-e 1566.67 Wheat,Spring14%-pro Mnpls-u 7.6675
LBMA Gold Price AM *1283.95 Austria crown-e 1270.15 Wheat,No.2 soft red,St.Louis-bp,u 4.3750 Sherwin–Williams SHW 3.450 Aug. 1, ’25 90 9 n.a. 390.56 0.11
LBMA Gold Price PM *1286.95 Austria phil-e 1357.39 Wheat - Hard - KC (USDA) $ per bu-u 3.8600
Silver, troy oz. Wheat,No.1soft white,Portld,OR-u 5.2638
Sammons Financial SAMMON 4.450 May 12, ’27 168 7 n.a. ... ...
Silver, troy oz.
LBMA spot price £12.8400 Engelhard industrial 17.2200 Kraft Heinz Foods KHC 5.200 July 15, ’45 184 5 188 … …
(U.S.$ equivalent) 17.0950 Food
Engelhard fabricated 20.6640 Omega Healthcare Investors OHI 4.750 Jan. 15, ’28 245 5 246 27.21 0.41
Other metals Handy & Harman base 17.1450 Beef,carcass equiv. index
LBMA Platinum Price PM *938.0 Handy & Harman fabricated 21.4310 choice 1-3,600-900 lbs.-u 188.43 SES S.A. SESGFP 3.600 April 4, ’23 135 5 n.a. ... ...
Aluminum, LME, $ per metric ton *2085.0 LBMA spot price £12.8100 select 1-3,600-900 lbs.-u 170.31
(U.S.$ equivalent) 16.9650 Broilers, National comp wghtd-u,w 0.8580 High-yield issues with the biggest price increases…
Coins,wholesale $1,000 face-a 12938 Butter,AA Chicago 2.2225
Fibers and Textiles Cheddar cheese,bbl,Chicago 167.50
Bond Price as % of face value Stock Performance
Other metals Issuer Symbol Coupon (%) Maturity Current One-day change Last week Close ($) % chg
Cotlook 'A' Index-t *80.75 LBMA Platinum Price PM *927.0 Cheddar cheese,blk,Chicago 161.00
Platinum,Engelhard industrial 940.0 Milk,Nonfat dry,Chicago lb. 71.25
Cocoa,Ivory Coast-w 2381
RR Donnelley & Sons RRD 6.500 Nov. 15, ’23 95.500 1.50 n.a. 8.37 2.20
Platinum,Engelhard fabricated 1040.0
Palladium,Engelhard industrial 1007.0
Coffee,Brazilian,Comp 1.2273 MEG Energy MEGCN 7.000 March 31, ’24 91.000 1.37 88.313 ... ...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 Coffee,Colombian, NY 1.4176 7.875 Dec. 15, ’21 58.000 1.25 56.000 0.33 –1.23
Palladium,Engelhard fabricated 1107.0 Walter Investment Management WAC
Eggs,large white,Chicago-u 1.5750
Aluminum, LME, $ per metric ton *2062.0 EP Energy EPENEG 8.000 Feb. 15, ’25 67.630 1.13 66.500 ... ...
Wednesday Flour,hard winter KC n.a.
Copper,Comex spot 3.1345
Hams,17-20 lbs,Mid-US fob-u 0.73
Iron Ore, 62% Fe CFR China-s 65.6 California Resources CRC 8.000 Dec. 15, ’22 74.063 1.06 69.750 14.99 3.24
Energy Shredded Scrap, US Midwest-s,w 276
Hogs,Iowa-So. Minnesota-u 62.05
Pork bellies,12-14 lb MidUS-u n.a. Endo Dac ENDP 6.000 July 15, ’23 80.000 1.00 75.750 … …
Propane,tet,Mont Belvieu-g 1.0074 Steel, HRC USA, FOB Midwest Mill-s 627 Pork loins,13-19 lb MidUS-u 0.8691 Revlon Consumer Products REV 6.250 Aug. 1, ’24 57.500 1.00 60.938 … …
Butane,normal,Mont Belvieu-g 1.0421 Fibers and Textiles Steers,Tex.-Okla. Choice-u 118.00
NaturalGas,HenryHub-i 2.930 Steers,feeder,Okla. City-u,w 166.38 Uniti UNIT 7.125 Dec. 15, ’24 90.250 1.00 89.250 16.17 2.28
NaturalGas,TranscoZone3-i 2.880 Burlap,10-oz,40-inch NY yd-n,w 0.6200
NaturalGas,TranscoZone6NY-i 3.000 Cotton,1 1/16 std lw-mdMphs-u 0.7039 Fats and Oils …And with the biggest price decreases
NaturalGas,PanhandleEast-i 2.360 Cotlook 'A' Index-t *81.50 Corn oil,crude wet/dry mill-u,w 34.8500
NaturalGas,Opal-i 2.480 Hides,hvy native steers piece fob-u 61.000 Grease,choice white,Chicago-h 0.2500 FMG Resources FMGAU 9.750 March 1, ’22 111.625 –1.76 111.625 ... ...
NaturalGas,MarcellusNE PA-i 2.340 Wool,64s,staple,Terr del-u,w n.a. Lard,Chicago-u 0.4100 KeyCorp* KEY 5.000 Sept. 15, ’49 104.125 –0.88 103.500 18.16 –0.66
NaturalGas,HaynesvilleN.LA-i 2.810 Grains and Feeds Soybean oil,crude;Centl IL-u 0.3318
Coal,C.Aplc.,12500Btu,1.2SO2-r,w 59.850 Tallow,bleach;Chicago-h 0.2650 J. C. Penney JCP 5.650 June 1, ’20 92.220 –0.66 88.500 3.24 0.62
Coal,PwdrRvrBsn,8800Btu,0.8SO2-r,w 12.100 Barley,top-quality Mnpls-u n.a. Tallow,edible,Chicago-u 0.3400 Vistajet Malta Finance VSTJET 7.750 June 1, ’20 93.875 –0.63 n.a. ... ...
Bran,wheat middlings, KC-u 93
Metals Corn,No. 2 yellow,Cent IL-bp,u 3.1950 Wynn Las Vegas WYNNLV 5.500 March 1, ’25 103.550 –0.58 103.000 ... ...
Gold, per troy oz Corn gluten feed,Midwest-u,w 95.8 CDK Global CDK 4.875 June 1, ’27 102.053 –0.57 102.000 69.19 0.79
Corn gluten meal,Midwest-u,w 485.1
Engelhard industrial 1290.84 KEY TO CODES: A=ask; B=bid; BP=country elevator T–Mobile USA TMUS 6.125 Jan. 15, ’22 103.200 –0.55 103.375 61.35 1.56
Cottonseed meal-u,w 230 bids to producers; C=corrected; E=Manfra,Tordella &
Engelhard fabricated 1387.65
Hominy feed,Cent IL-u,w 92 Brooks; G=ICE; H=Hurley Brokerage; I=Natural Gas 1011778 Bc Unlimited Liability BCULC 4.250 May 15, ’24 100.000 –0.53 99.375 ... ...
Handy & Harman base 1286.95
Meat-bonemeal,50% pro Mnpls-u,w 218 Intelligence;
Handy & Harman fabricated 1428.51 L=livericeindex.com; M=midday; N=nominal; n.a.=not
Oats,No.2 milling,Mnpls-u 2.8325 *Estimated spread over 2-year, 3-year, 5-year, 10-year or 30-year hot-run Treasury; 100 basis points=one percentage pt.; change in spread shown is for Z-spread.
LBMA Gold Price AM *1280.00 quoted or not available; R=SNL Energy; S=Platts-TSI;
Rice, 5% Broken White, Thailand-l,w 374.00 Note: Data are for the most active issue of bonds with maturities of two years or more
LBMA Gold Price PM *1283.30 Rice, Long Grain Milled, No. 2 AR-u,w 25.00
T=Cotlook Limited; U=USDA; W=weekly, Z=not
Krugerrand,wholesale-e 1344.46 quoted. *Data as of 11/21 Sources: MarketAxess Corporate BondTicker; WSJ Market Data Group
Sorghum,(Milo) No.2 Gulf-u 7.6388 Source: WSJ Market Data Group
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The following explanations apply to NYSE, NYSE s-New 52-week high. s GrubHub GRUB 67.70 0.91 McCormickVtg MKC.V 99.05 -1.28 SK Telecom SKM 26.72 1.02 VornadoRealty VNO 76.75 0.11 CitrixSystems CTXS 86.68 0.12 MaximIntProducts MXIM 53.52 -0.69
Arca, NYSE MKT and Nasdaq Stock Market listed t-New 52-week low. GpoAvalAcc AVAL 8.57 0.06 McDonalds MCD 169.05 0.75 SLGreenRealty SLG 100.75 -0.31 VoyaFinancial VOYA 42.31 0.12 s Cognex CGNX 143.15 -1.71 s MelcoResorts MLCO 26.57 0.26
securities. Prices are composite quotations that dd-Indicates loss in the most recent four GpFinSantMex BSMX 8.30 0.13 McKesson MCK 145.80 2.93 Salesforce.com CRM 106.83 -1.97 VulcanMatls VMC 122.85 0.11 CognizantTech CTSH 71.71 -0.06 MercadoLibre MELI 265.89 -2.87
include primary market trades as well as trades quarters. GrupoTelevisa TV 18.59 -0.11 Medtronic MDT 82.34 -0.32 Sanofi SNY 45.37 0.58 WABCO WBC 144.19 -0.87 s Coherent COHR 314.83 -4.61 MicrochipTech MCHP 90.40 -1.47
reported by Nasdaq OMX BXSM (formerly FD-First day of trading. Guidewire GWRE 81.88 -0.16 Merck MRK 54.37 0.10 SantanderCons SC 16.95 -0.14 WEC Energy WEC 68.27 0.08 Comcast A CMCSA 36.41 -0.01 s MicronTech MU 49.14 -0.26
Boston), Chicago Stock Exchange, CBOE, National h-Does not meet continued listing HCA Healthcare HCA 77.07 1.18 MetLife MET 51.71 ... Sasol SSL 31.22 0.80 W.P.Carey WPC 71.48 -0.84 CommerceBcshrs CBSH 56.86 0.14 Microsemi MSCC 54.64 -0.58
Stock Exchange, ISE and BATS. standards HCP HCP 26.71 -0.09 MettlerToledo MTD 626.35 -1.27 Scana SCG 43.49 0.09 Wabtec WAB 73.08 -0.25 CommScope COMM 35.56 0.47 Microsoft MSFT 83.11 -0.61
The list comprises the 1,000 largest companies lf-Late filing HDFC Bank HDB 97.92 1.24 MichaelKors KORS 56.61 0.28 Schlumberger SLB 62.14 0.26 Wal-Mart WMT 96.41 -0.11 s Copart CPRT 41.01 4.31 Middleby MIDD 118.15 1.57
based on market capitalization. q-Temporary exemption from Nasdaq HP HPQ 21.34 -1.12 MicroFocus MFGP 35.88 0.07 SchwabC SCHW 45.80 -0.28 WasteConnections WCN 68.54 -0.38 CoStar CSGP 308.80 0.83 Momo MOMO 32.11 -0.20
Underlined quotations are those stocks with requirements. HSBC HSBC 49.18 0.83 MidAmApt MAA 104.12 -0.47 ScottsMiracleGro SMG 97.06 -0.73 WasteMgt WM 80.26 -0.61 Costco COST 172.48 -0.94 Mondelez MDLZ 42.33 0.01
large changes in volume compared with the t-NYSE bankruptcy Halliburton HAL 41.43 0.26 MitsubishiUFJ MTU 6.78 0.15 SealedAir SEE 45.31 0.17 Waters WAT 196.57 -1.49 Ctrip.com CTRP 48.03 -0.08 MonsterBev MNST 61.27 ...
issue’s average trading volume. v-Trading halted on primary market. Hanesbrands HBI 19.82 0.31 MizuhoFin MFG 3.58 0.03 SemicondctrMfg SMI 7.70 0.29 Watsco WSO 164.10 -0.31 CypressSemi CY 17.18 -0.15 Mylan MYL 37.28 0.05
Boldfaced quotations highlight those issues vj-In bankruptcy or receivership or being HarleyDavidson HOG 47.68 1.00 MobileTeleSys MBT 10.76 0.16 SempraEnergy SRE 118.66 -0.16 Wayfair W 68.25 0.16 DISH Network DISH 50.43 0.39 NXP Semi NXPI 115.15 -0.17
whose price changed by 5% or more if their reorganized under the Bankruptcy Code, Harris HRS 142.52 -1.48 MohawkInds MHK 274.01 -0.24 SensataTech ST 48.93 -0.14 WellCareHealth WCG 201.37 -1.32 DentsplySirona XRAY 67.59 0.58 Nasdaq NDAQ 77.17 -0.07
previous closing price was $2 or higher. or securities assumed by such companies. HartfordFinl HIG 55.78 -0.31 MolsonCoors B TAP 79.54 0.22 ServiceCorp SCI 35.88 0.01 WellsFargo WFC 54.06 -0.46 DiamondbkEner FANG 109.25 0.10 NatlInstruments NATI 44.39 -0.31
HealthcareAmer HTA 30.81 -0.14 Monsanto MON 118.22 -0.26 ServiceMaster SERV 47.16 -0.21 Welltower HCN 68.17 -0.12 DiscovComm C DISCK 16.72 0.51 NektarTherap NKTR 49.75 -0.23
Wall Street Journal stock tables reflect composite regular trading as of 4 p.m. and Heico HEI 92.23 -0.02 s Moody's MCO 149.40 -0.06 ServiceNow NOW 127.45 -0.62 WestPharmSvcs WST 98.58 -1.21 DiscovComm A DISCA 17.79 0.54 s NetApp NTAP 56.05 0.97
changes in the closing prices from 4 p.m. the previous day. Heico A HEI.A 77.10 0.10 MorganStanley MS 49.09 -0.29 ShawComm B SJR 22.22 -0.07 WestarEnergy WR 56.04 0.42 s DollarTree DLTR 99.77 0.31 Netease NTES 347.70 2.70
Helm&Payne HP 56.61 0.77 Mosaic MOS 23.89 0.28 SherwinWilliams SHW 390.56 0.43 WestAllianceBcp WAL 55.05 -0.32 E*TRADE ETFC 44.74 -0.16 Netflix NFLX 196.32 0.09
Herbalife HLF 68.09 0.87 MotorolaSol MSI 91.83 -0.62 ShinhanFin SHG 44.26 0.40 WesternGasEquity WGP 36.22 -0.16 EXACT Sci EXAS 59.17 -0.57 Neurocrine NBIX 71.81 -2.38
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 Net Net Hershey HSY 108.12 -0.39 NRG Energy NRG 29.22 -0.25 Shopify SHOP 110.41 0.24 WesternGasPtrs WES 45.46 0.34 NewsCorp B NWS 15.90 -0.05
EastWestBncp EWBC 58.01 -0.23
Net Stock Sym Close Chg Stock Sym Close Chg Hess HES 43.45 0.38 s NTTDoCoMo DCM 25.60 0.12 SimonProperty SPG 158.33 -0.82 WesternUnion WU 19.55 -0.15 eBay EBAY 35.94 -0.02 NewsCorp A NWSA 15.77 -0.02
Stock Sym Close Chg HewlettPackard HPE 13.10 -1.02 s NVR NVR 3417.22 40.22 SmithAO AOS 60.86 0.09 WestlakeChem WLK 94.79 0.38 EchoStar SATS 59.60 -0.39 Nordson NDSN 128.12 -0.06
BaxterIntl BAX 64.04 -0.21 s DCT Industrial DCT 61.07 -0.35 Smith&Nephew SNN 35.79 0.21 NorthernTrust NTRS 94.39 -0.07
Hilton HLT 75.68 0.04 t NationalGrid NGG 58.68 0.98 WestpacBanking WBK 24.23 -0.07 ElbitSystems ESLT 142.39 2.24
BectonDicknsn BDX 224.23 -2.60 DTE Energy DTE 112.62 -0.02 NorwegCruise NCLH 55.31 -0.17
NYSE Berkley WRB 66.42 -0.58 DXC Tech DXC 97.79 -1.23
HollyFrontier HFC 44.39 -0.40 NatlOilwell NOV 31.94 0.14 Smucker
Snap
SJM 112.70
SNAP 12.62
-0.84
0.28
WestRock WRK 58.79 0.13 ElectronicArts EA 107.32 -0.39
NVIDIA NVDA 214.93 -0.97
s HomeDepot HD 172.06 -0.80 NatlRetailProp NNN 42.55 -0.11 Weyerhaeuser WY 36.19 0.08 Equinix EQIX 472.37 -1.89
ABB 25.40 -0.15 BerkHathwy A BRK.A275000 ... s Danaher DHR 93.76 -0.42 SnapOn SNA 161.37 0.25 OReillyAuto ORLY 218.65 2.96
ABB HondaMotor HMC 33.16 0.04 NewOrientalEduc EDU 89.31 -1.08 WheatonPrecMet WPM 21.34 0.40 Ericsson ERIC 6.39 -0.04
AECOM ACM 36.33 -0.32 BerkHathwy B BRK.B 182.56 -0.62 Darden DRI 79.76 -0.57 s Honeywell NY CmntyBcp NYCB 12.84 SOQUIMICH SQM 56.52 -0.81 WHR 166.64 -2.24 OldDomFreight ODFL 123.26 0.04
HON 148.99 -0.36 -0.03 Whirlpool ErieIndemnity A ERIE 121.81 -1.41
AES AES 10.68 0.05 BerryGlobal BERY 59.48 -0.47 DaVita DVA 55.39 0.22
NewellBrands NWL 28.20 0.23 Sony SNE 47.22 0.11 Williams WMB 27.75 0.51 s ON Semi ON 21.37 -0.57
HormelFoods HRL 34.27 -0.25 Exelixis EXEL 26.13 0.08
Aflac AFL 85.05 -0.03 BestBuy BBY 56.49 0.43 s Deere DE 145.25 6.02 s DR Horton Southern SO 51.36 0.06 WilliamsPartners WPZ 35.19 0.14 OpenText OTEX 33.02 -0.89
DHI 49.58 0.23 NewfieldExpln NFX 30.66 0.48 Expedia EXPE 126.98 2.10
AT&T T 34.87 0.54 Bio-RadLab A BIO 258.69 3.01 DellTechs DVMT 80.79 -1.44
HostHotels HST 19.78 -0.01 NewmontMin NEM 36.71 0.34 SoCopper SCCO 43.81 0.07 Wipro WIT 5.28 -0.06 PTC PTC 65.10 0.07
BlackKnight BKI 45.95 -0.25 DelphiAuto DLPH 100.78 -1.22
ExpeditorsIntl EXPD 59.82 -0.13
AbbottLabs ABT 55.80 -0.32 HuanengPower HNP 27.00 -0.25 NextEraEnergy NEE 155.18 -0.04 SouthwestAir LUV 55.09 -0.34 WooriBank WF 44.00 0.89 Paccar PCAR 67.87 0.18
BlackBerry 10.73 0.19 DeltaAir DAL 50.41 -0.26
ExpressScripts ESRX 62.12 0.93
AbbVie ABBV 94.47 -0.21 BB Hubbell HUBB 121.00 0.84 NielsenHoldings NLSN 36.59 0.59 SpectraEnerPtrs SEP 40.25 0.10 Wyndham WYN 109.64 -0.63 PacWestBancorp PACW 45.12 -0.30
BLK 478.94 -2.42 18.91 -0.10
F5Networks FFIV 122.02 -0.43
Accenture ACN 147.11 -0.90 BlackRock DeutscheBank DB Humana HUM 238.30 1.88 Nike NKE 59.07 -0.32 SpectrumBrands SPB 114.28 0.53 s XPO Logistics XPO 76.65 -0.59 Paychex PAYX 64.68 -0.44
31.85 -0.03 DevonEnergy DVN 37.99 0.44
Facebook FB 180.87 -0.99
AcuityBrands AYI 161.49 -0.98 Blackstone BX HuntingIngalls HII 234.07 -1.85 NiSource NI 27.04 -0.18 SpiritAeroSys SPR 82.87 0.16 XcelEnergy XEL 50.53 -0.08 PayPal PYPL 77.57 -0.20
BA 265.15 -1.84 DEO 137.62 -0.30
Fastenal FAST 48.75 0.30
Adient ADNT 77.65 -0.21 Boeing Diageo Huntsman HUN 30.82 -0.18 NobleEnergy NBL 25.88 0.31 Sprint S 6.15 0.07 Xerox XRX 28.29 -0.14 People'sUtdFin PBCT 18.20 0.01
FifthThirdBncp FITB 28.42 -0.06
AdvanceAuto AAP 89.62 0.69 BorgWarner BWA 52.89 0.24 DigitalRealty DLR 117.21 -1.07 s HyattHotels H 70.91 0.26 Nokia NOK 5.05 ... s Square SQ 48.81 0.75 s Xylem XYL 67.35 -0.06 PilgrimPride PPC 35.31 -0.30
BostonProps BXP 125.00 -0.20 DiscoverFinSvcs DFS 65.50 -0.14
FirstSolar FSLR 60.51 0.27
Priceline PCLN 1759.19 -7.48
AdvSemiEngg ASX 6.31 0.04 ICICI Bank IBN 9.75 0.02 NomuraHoldings NMR 5.71 0.01 StanleyBlackDck SWK 165.99 ... YPF YPF 23.17 0.21 FISV 127.71
Fiserv -0.56 QGEN 31.87
Aegon AEG 6.03 0.01 BostonSci BSX 28.47 -0.33 Disney DIS 102.74 -0.26 ING 17.91 JWN 41.16 -0.14 StarwoodProp STWD 21.78 0.09 YumBrands YUM 79.23 -0.30 Qiagen -0.25
ING Groep 0.12 Nordstrom Flex FLEX 18.79 -0.18
AerCap AER 50.81 0.10 Braskem BAK 29.39 0.18 s DolbyLab DLB 62.85 0.38 NorfolkSouthern NSC 129.23 0.13 StateStreet STT 92.67 -0.39 YumChina YUMC 40.63 -1.05 Qorvo QRVO 79.61 -0.98
Invesco IVZ 35.23 -0.40 FlirSystems FLIR 46.84 -0.19
Aetna AET 176.24 -0.21 Bristol-Myers BMY 61.14 -0.10 DollarGeneral DG 87.23 0.58 IQV 103.95 -0.41 NorthropGrum NOC 302.02 -2.29 Statoil STO 20.34 0.23 ZTO Express ZTO 17.01 -0.03 Qualcomm QCOM 68.13 1.46
IQVIA s Fortinet FTNT 41.77 0.45 RandgoldRscs GOLD 96.41 1.73
AffiliatedMgrs AMG 189.99 -0.34 BritishAmTob BTI 66.80 -0.61 DominionEner D 82.16 0.79 s IDEX IEX 130.31 0.19 Novartis NVS 84.48 0.20 Steris STE 87.90 -0.68 ZayoGroup ZAYO 35.70 0.01
88.75 -1.95 DPZ 176.55 -0.33
Gaming&Leisure GLPI 36.03 -0.01 RegenPharm REGN 387.54 3.10
AgilentTechs A 68.69 -1.22 BroadridgeFinl BR Domino's IllinoisToolWks ITW 159.62 0.16 s NovoNordisk NVO 51.84 0.09 STMicroelec STM 24.10 -0.58 ZimmerBiomet ZBH 113.07 -0.49
BrookfieldMgt BAM 41.45 0.08 47.86 0.31
Garmin GRMN 61.53 -0.96 RossStores ROST 72.30 -0.37
AgnicoEagle AEM 44.92 0.47 Donaldson DCI Infosys INFY 15.20 0.08 Nucor NUE 56.15 0.17 Stryker SYK 154.79 -0.94 Zoetis ZTS 71.07 -0.29
43.33 0.16 s DouglasEmmett DEI 40.67 -0.35
GileadSciences GILD 72.82 0.31 RoyalGold RGLD 87.24 0.32
Agrium AGU 108.73 0.51 BrookfieldInfr BIP Ingersoll-Rand IR 84.59 -0.69 OGE Energy OGE 34.91 0.09 SumitomoMits SMFG 7.98 0.09
Goodyear GT 30.69 -0.13
AirProducts APD 161.62 -0.67 Brown&Brown BRO 50.36 -0.15 Dover DOV 94.71 -0.08 Ingredion INGR 135.01 0.08 ONEOK OKE 50.58 0.38 SunComms SUI 93.17 -0.28 NASDAQ Grifols GRFS 23.04 -0.13
Ryanair RYAAY 120.05
SBA Comm SBAC 166.98
-0.72
-0.85
AlaskaAir ALK 65.58 -0.61 Brown-Forman A BF.A 58.77 -0.33 DowDuPont DWDP 70.60 -0.66 ICE ICE 67.66 -0.62 OccidentalPetrol OXY 68.23 0.35 SunLifeFinancial SLF 39.63 -0.11
Brown-Forman B BF.B 58.67 -0.20 DrPepperSnap DPS 86.40 -0.63 SuncorEnergy SU 35.42 0.20 AGNC Invt AGNC 20.42 0.21 GpoFinGalicia GGAL 57.05 0.08 SEI Investments SEIC 68.55 -0.04
Albemarle ALB 135.25 -1.45 InterContinentl IHG 57.54 0.13 Olin OLN 36.92 -0.23 HD Supply HDS 35.20 0.04
BuckeyePtrs BPL 46.71 0.69 DrReddy'sLab RDY 35.87 -0.93 SunTrustBanks STI 57.62 -0.11 ANGI Homesvcs ANGI 11.88 0.01 Sina SINA 112.05 1.54
Alcoa AA 42.64 1.25 IBM IBM 151.77 -0.18 Omnicom OMC 68.87 -0.67 Hasbro HAS 95.03 -0.02
s AlexandriaRlEst ARE 126.95 Bunge BG 65.48 0.18 DukeEnergy DUK 88.63 -0.18 SynchronyFin SYF 33.67 -0.10 Ansys ANSS 150.48 -2.92 SS&C Tech SSNC 40.50 -0.51
-1.01 IntlFlavors IFF 150.98 -0.73 Oracle ORCL 48.58 -0.05 HenrySchein HSIC 69.95 1.98
s Alibaba BurlingtonStrs BURL 102.21 -2.73 DukeRealty DRE 29.22 -0.08 Syngenta SYT 92.40 0.03 ASML ASML 183.00 -2.37 SVB Fin SIVB 214.08 -0.84
BABA 189.84 -1.06 IntlGameTech IGT 27.97 -0.54 Orange ORAN 16.74 0.15 Hologic HOLX 40.88 0.28
CBD Pao CBD 23.03 0.30 ENI E 33.00 0.41 Sysco SYY 54.90 0.25 Abiomed ABMD 198.86 -0.72 ScrippsNetworks SNI 80.81 0.71
Alleghany Y 553.00 -4.78 IntlPaper IP 54.75 0.04 OrbitalATK OA 132.35 0.02 JBHunt JBHT 104.01 0.79
CBRE Group CBG 42.49 -0.33 EOG Rscs EOG 101.59 -0.07 TAL Education TAL 27.80 -0.09 ActivisionBliz ATVI 65.14 0.64 Seagate STX 40.33 0.19
Allegion ALLE 83.16 -0.24 Interpublic IPG 18.72 ... Orix IX 83.59 0.16 HuntingtonBcshs HBAN 13.54 -0.01
CBS A CBS.A 56.99 -0.96 EQT EQT 58.18 -0.14 TE Connectivity TEL 94.51 -1.04 AdobeSystems ADBE 182.90 -1.25 SeattleGenetics SGEN 59.13 0.08
Allergan AGN 174.83 4.16 InvitatHomes INVH 23.50 0.13 Oshkosh OSK 85.90 -0.33 IAC/InterActive IAC 130.93 1.61
CBS B CBS 56.24 -0.50 EastmanChem EMN 90.90 -0.11 Telus TU 38.11 ... AdvMicroDevices AMD 11.37 -0.03 Shire SHPG 149.78 4.95
AllianceData ADS 221.81 -2.03 IronMountain IRM 41.14 -0.21 OwensCorning OC 87.29 0.31 IdexxLab IDXX 154.06 -1.53
CF Industries CF 36.31 -0.14 Eaton ETN 76.22 -0.08 TIM Part TSU 18.75 0.11 AkamaiTech AKAM 55.69 0.01 SignatureBank SBNY 130.53 -0.83
AlliantEnergy LNT 44.19 0.04 IsraelChemicals ICL 3.88 -0.04 PG&E PCG 53.89 0.16 IHSMarkit INFO 43.43 0.20 SiriusXM SIRI 5.44 -0.02
ALL 99.30 -0.40 s CGI Group GIB 53.88 0.02 s EatonVance EV 52.98 0.80 TJX TJX 70.57 -0.66 AlexionPharm ALXN 107.60 -0.45
Allstate ItauUnibanco ITUB 13.26 0.02 PLDT PHI 32.56 0.04 s IPG Photonics IPGP 239.48 -6.80 Skyworks SWKS 108.54 -1.71
AllyFinancial ALLY 26.37 -0.02 CIT Group CIT 47.94 0.33 Ecolab ECL 132.99 0.54 TaiwanSemi TSM 42.41 -0.17 AlignTech ALGN 254.38 -2.05
JPMorganChase JPM 98.64 -0.29 PNC Fin PNC 133.04 -0.07 IRSA Prop IRCP 58.45 0.47 Splunk SPLK 83.53 -0.25
ATUS 19.33 -0.77 CMS Energy CMS 49.40 -0.08 Ecopetrol EC 11.89 0.33 s JacobsEngg JEC 64.78 Tapestry TPR 41.03 -0.22 Alkermes ALKS 50.15 0.79
AlticeUSA -0.14 POSCO PKX 72.04 0.16 IcahnEnterprises IEP 53.63 1.07 Starbucks SBUX 57.14 -0.12
MO 65.49 -0.16 CNA Fin CNA 53.37 -0.12 EdisonInt EIX 80.15 -0.07 TargaResources TRGP 43.28 1.05 AlnylamPharm ALNY 132.33 0.32
Altria JamesHardie JHX 16.53 0.11 PPG Ind PPG 115.27 -0.07 Icon ICLR 118.35 0.90 SteelDynamics STLD 37.72 0.22
AlumofChina ACH 16.68 -0.10 CNOOC CEO 137.81 1.55 EdwardsLife EW 108.81 -0.71 Target TGT 57.49 0.24 Alphabet C GOOG 1035.96 1.47
JanusHenderson JHG 36.41 0.05 PPL PPL 36.06 0.04 s Illumina ILMN 215.35 3.30 Symantec SYMC 28.43 0.32
ABEV 6.40 0.05 CPFLEnergia CPL 17.00 0.14 EmersonElec EMR 61.88 1.53 TataMotors TTM 32.89 0.17 Alphabet A GOOGL 1051.92 1.62
Ambev J&J JNJ 137.29 -1.05 PVH PVH 135.27 -0.84
s Incyte INCY 99.00 0.05 Synopsys SNPS 89.34 -0.04
AEE 62.92 -0.24 CRH CRH 35.12 -0.22 EnbridgeEnPtrs EEP 13.15 0.30 TechnipFMC FTI 27.06 0.46 Altaba AABA 72.60 -0.25
Ameren JohnsonControls JCI 36.79 0.79 PackagingCpAm PKG 112.07 0.03
s Intel INTC 44.65 -0.29 TD Ameritrade AMTD 48.99 -0.21
AmericaMovil AMX 17.55 0.20 CVS Health CVS 71.48 -0.02 Enbridge ENB 36.98 0.18 TeckRscsB TECK 23.05 0.63 Amazon.com AMZN 1156.16 16.67
JonesLang JLL 148.81 -1.42 PaloAltoNtwks PANW 151.39 1.99
s InteractiveBrkrs IBKR 55.26 -0.26 T-MobileUS TMUS 61.35 0.94
AmericaMovil A AMOV 17.48 0.34 s CabotOil COG 29.44 0.37 Encana ECA 11.75 0.11 TelecomArgentina TEO 34.97 0.55 Amdocs DOX 64.64 -0.14
JuniperNetworks JNPR 27.01 0.03 ParkHotels PK 29.08 -0.06 Intuit INTU 151.63 -0.16 s TRowePrice TROW 97.72 -0.01
CalAtlantic CAA 53.93 0.15 EnelAmericas ENIA 10.01 -0.09 TelecomItalia TI 8.12 0.20 Amerco UHAL 354.87 -3.54
AmCampus ACC 42.52 0.01 KAR Auction KAR 48.69 0.41 ParkerHannifin PH 184.61 0.32 IntuitiveSurgical ISRG 396.59 -1.90 TakeTwoSoftware TTWO 117.94 -1.08
CamdenProperty CPT 93.18 -0.64 EnelGenChile EOCC 25.24 -0.53 TelecomItalia A TI.A 6.72 0.13 AmerAirlines AAL 48.66 0.01
AEP AEP 76.59 -0.18 KB Fin KB 51.80 0.41 ParsleyEnergy PE 26.54 0.21 IonisPharma IONS 54.34 -0.18 Tesla TSLA 312.60 -5.21
CampbellSoup CPB 46.77 0.93 EnergyTransferEq ETE 16.17 0.12 TeledyneTech TDY 183.81 -1.19 Amgen AMGN 169.96 0.12
AmerExpress AXP 93.82 -0.59 KKR KKR 19.52 0.02 Pearson PSO 9.33 0.10 JD.com JD 39.79 -0.09 TexasInstruments TXN 98.08 -1.11
CIBC CM 90.29 0.50 EnergyTransfer ETP 16.31 -0.02 Teleflex TFX 266.55 -1.05 AnalogDevices ADI 88.65 -1.54
AmericanFin AFG 102.13 -0.34 KT KT 14.75 0.50 PembinaPipeline PBA 34.86 0.17 JackHenry JKHY 114.22 0.87 TractorSupply TSCO 64.72 -0.15
CanNtlRlwy CNI 79.61 -0.16 Entergy ETR 85.51 -0.10 TelefonicaBras VIV 15.24 0.03 Apple AAPL 174.96 1.82
AmerHomes4Rent AMH 21.80 -0.05 KSCitySouthern KSU 105.95 1.01 Pentair PNR 69.51 0.16 JazzPharma JAZZ 138.04 0.85 Trimble TRMB 41.95 -0.09
CanNaturalRes CNQ 34.60 0.31 EnterpriseProd EPD 24.64 0.28 Telefonica TEF 10.02 0.06 ApplMaterials AMAT 57.68 -1.02
AIG AIG 59.23 -0.40 Kellogg K 64.71 0.36 PepsiCo PEP 115.08 -0.97 JetBlue JBLU 19.90 -0.08 21stCenturyFoxA FOXA 30.61 -0.27
CanPacRlwy CP 173.60 3.10 Equifax EFX 109.81 -0.51 TelekmIndonesia TLK 31.07 0.25 ArchCapital ACGL 95.60 -1.41
AmerTowerREIT AMT 145.31 -1.28 KeyCorp KEY 18.16 -0.12 PerkinElmer PKI 73.04 -0.22 JunoTherap JUNO 60.33 1.56 21stCenturyFoxB FOX 29.94 -0.16
Canon CAJ 38.51 0.03 EquityLife ELS 89.81 -0.85 Tenaris TS 29.36 0.26 Atlassian TEAM 51.74 -0.47
AmerWaterWorks AWK 88.66 0.08 KeysightTechs KEYS 45.19 0.04 Perrigo PRGO 86.70 -0.05 KLA Tencor KLAC 104.47 -0.26 UltaBeauty ULTA 212.30 2.34
CapitalOne COF 87.26 -0.69 EquityResdntl EQR 68.14 0.04 Teradyne TER 43.28 -0.74 s Autodesk ADSK 127.77 0.06
Ameriprise AMP 159.58 -0.18 KilroyRealty KRC 75.29 0.08 PetroChina PTR 68.47 1.63 KraftHeinz KHC 79.82 -0.19 UltSoftware ULTI 196.98 -1.72
CardinalHealth CAH 56.97 1.25 EssexProp ESS 249.97 -2.14 TevaPharm TEVA 13.48 0.15 ADP ADP 110.21 -0.35
AmerisourceBrgn ABC 81.40 1.94 KimberlyClark KMB 116.05 -0.95 PetroleoBrasil PBR 10.26 0.23 Textron TXT 53.53 -0.16 s LKQ LKQ 38.14 0.39 s UnivDisplay OLED 189.60 3.10
Carlisle CSL 110.75 0.21 EsteeLauder EL 125.84 0.34 Baidu BIDU 249.65 5.35
Ametek AME 70.24 -0.11 KimcoRealty KIM 18.78 0.04 PetroleoBrasilA PBR.A 9.97 0.23 ThermoFisherSci TMO 192.75 -0.18 LamResearch LRCX 215.17 -3.74 VEON VEON 4.05 0.05
CarMax KMX 67.99 -0.76 EverestRe RE 219.24 -3.01 BankofOzarks OZRK 44.30 -0.15
Amphenol APH 89.90 -0.94 KinderMorgan KMI 17.10 0.23 Pfizer PFE 35.43 -0.11 ThomsonReuters TRI 44.08 0.10 LamarAdv LAMR 75.56 -0.74 VeriSign VRSN 115.77 -0.29
Carnival CCL 66.79 0.24 EversourceEner ES 63.81 -0.12 Biogen BIIB 309.80 0.74
AnadarkoPetrol APC 48.35 0.33 Knight-Swift KNX 39.92 0.25 PhilipMorris PM 103.54 0.18 ThorIndustries THO 136.90 -0.71 LibertyBroadbandC LBRDK 89.05 -0.72 s VeriskAnalytics VRSK 93.82 0.24
Carnival CUK 67.06 0.13 Exelon EXC 41.50 0.11 BioMarinPharm BMRN 82.99 0.08
Andeavor ANDV 103.95 -1.39 Kohl's KSS 44.63 0.42 Phillips66 PSX 93.29 -0.33 LibertyBroadbandA LBRDA 87.38 -0.77 VertxPharm VRTX 147.04 1.93
Caterpillar CAT 138.01 0.41 ExtraSpaceSt EXR 87.42 -0.24 3M MMM 231.58 -1.33 s BlueBuffaloPet BUFF 30.06 0.56
AndeavorLog ANDX 43.92 0.04 KoninklijkePhil PHG 39.18 0.17 PinnacleFoods PF 55.61 0.04 Tiffany TIF 94.09 0.55 LibertyGlobal A LBTYA 30.64 0.11 Viacom B VIAB 26.68 -0.58
Celanese A CE 105.93 -1.15 ExxonMobil XOM 81.10 0.23 bluebirdbio BLUE 167.20 -0.05
AB InBev BUD 115.75 0.13 KoreaElcPwr KEP 17.20 0.06 PinnacleWest PNW 89.28 -0.10 TimeWarner TWX 90.01 0.45 LibertyGlobal C LBTYK 29.63 0.14 Viacom A VIA 32.90 -0.45
Cemex CX 7.85 0.03 FMC FMC 93.17 -1.25 BrighthouseFin BHF 57.45 0.54
AnnalyCap NLY 11.88 0.06 Kroger KR 23.14 0.36 PioneerNatRscs PXD 154.08 1.85 s Toll Bros TOL 48.07 0.12 LibertyLiLAC A LILA 21.56 0.01 Vodafone VOD 30.40 0.10
CenovusEnergy CVE 9.71 0.10 s FactSet FDS 197.59 0.83 Broadcom AVGO 275.37 -1.22
AnteroResources AR 18.89 0.11 Kyocera KYO 71.47 0.06 PlainsAllAmPipe PAA 19.57 -0.04 Torchmark TMK 85.17 -0.10 LibertyLiLAC C LILAK 21.72 0.15 WPP WPPGY 84.47 0.68
Centene CNC 96.95 3.03 FederalRealty FRT 131.75 0.15 CA CA 32.45 -0.13
Anthem ANTM 220.42 0.40 LATAMAirlines LTM 13.74 0.10 PlainsGP PAGP 20.61 0.13 Toro TTC 62.72 0.28 s s LibertyQVC B QVCB 25.13 ... WalgreensBoots WBA 71.33 0.17
CenterPointEner CNP 29.15 0.06 FedEx FDX 217.83 0.51 CDK Global CDK 69.19 0.54
Aon AON 139.24 -2.20 L Brands LB 48.80 -0.29 PolarisIndustries PII 123.58 0.48 s TorontoDomBk TD 58.67 0.59 LibertyQVC A QVCA 24.94 -0.20 Weibo WB 117.45 -2.09
CentraisElBras EBR 6.38 0.20 Ferrari RACE 111.82 0.33 CDW CDW 66.30 0.10
Apache APA 41.54 0.10 LG Display LPL 14.47 0.11 Potash POT 19.43 0.11 Total TOT 56.11 1.18 LibertyVenturesA LVNTA 57.89 -0.56 WesternDigital WDC 92.91 0.56
CenturyLink CTL 14.34 -0.19 FiatChrysler FCAU 17.60 -0.31 CH Robinson CHRW 79.24 0.45
ApartmtInv AIV 44.64 -0.28 LINE LN 43.87 -0.17 s Praxair PX 151.72 0.37 TotalSystem TSS 73.77 -0.25 LibertyFormOne C FWONK 39.03 0.19 WillisTowers WLTW 158.79 -1.01
Chemours CC 52.86 -0.11 FibriaCelulose FBR 16.08 -0.26 CME Group CME 141.87 -0.71
ApolloGlbMgmt APO 30.43 0.27 L3 Tech LLL 189.20 -1.28 PrincipalFin PFG 68.40 -0.15 ToyotaMotor TM 126.08 0.30 LibertyFormOne A FWONA 37.23 0.07 Workday WDAY 115.15 -0.14
Chevron CVX 115.91 0.74 s FidNatlFin FNF 40.11 -0.38 CSX CSX 51.01 0.79
AquaAmerica WTR 36.54 0.09 LabCpAm LH 151.91 -0.93 Procter&Gamble PG 88.33 -0.39 TransCanada TRP 49.58 -0.68 s LibertyBraves A BATRA 22.79 -0.28 s WynnResorts WYNN 158.69 0.12
s ChinaEastrnAir CEA 31.35 2.95 FidNatlInfo FIS 91.59 -0.15 CadenceDesign CDNS 45.00 -0.33
Aramark ARMK 41.07 -0.19 s LambWeston LW 54.25 0.51 Progressive PGR 51.68 -0.19 TransDigm TDG 268.99 1.84 LibertyBraves C BATRK 22.76 -0.36 Xilinx XLNX 72.24 -0.97
ChinaLifeIns LFC 17.47 -0.24 58.com WUBA 79.20 0.66 CaesarsEnt CZR 13.15 0.10
ArcelorMittal MT 29.19 0.26 LasVegasSands LVS 67.70 -0.09 Prologis PLD 66.89 -0.51 TransUnion TRU 55.22 0.20 YY YY 121.62 2.82
ChinaMobile CHL 50.59 0.22 FirstAmerFin FAF 54.60 -0.50 Carlyle CG 21.40 0.05 LibertySirius C LSXMK 40.75 -0.32
ArcherDaniels ADM 39.24 -0.10 Lazard LAZ 47.63 0.14 PrudentialFin PRU 109.70 -0.36 Travelers TRV 130.01 -0.62 s LibertySirius A LSXMA 40.83 -0.26 Yandex YNDX 33.90 -0.38
ChinaPetrol SNP 71.98 1.17 FirstData FDC 16.72 -0.05 Cavium CAVM 88.60 1.40
Arconic ARNC 23.75 0.01 Lear LEA 176.20 -0.44 Prudential PUK 50.01 -0.77 TurkcellIletism TKC 9.18 -0.01 LincolnElectric LECO 87.70 -0.39
ZebraTech ZBRA 108.56 -0.21
s ChinaSoAirlines ZNH 47.27 3.60 FirstRepBank FRC 92.98 0.19 CboeGlobalMkts CBOE 119.35 -0.28
AristaNetworks ANET 239.01 -2.42 Leggett&Platt LEG 46.65 0.25 PublicServiceEnt PEG 51.43 -0.17 TurquoiseHill TRQ 3.10 0.05 LogitechIntl LOGI 35.93 -0.46
Zillow A ZG 41.77 0.37
ChinaTelecom CHA 49.34 0.08 FirstEnergy FE 34.24 0.01 Celgene CELG 105.16 0.66
ArrowElec ARW 78.68 -0.28 Leidos LDOS 61.10 -0.35 PublicStorage PSA 211.29 -0.03 s Twitter TWTR 22.27 0.39 Zillow C Z 41.70 0.34
ChinaUnicom CHU 15.17 0.16 FleetCorTech FLT 178.64 -1.28 CentennialRsc CDEV 20.78 0.44 LogMeIn LOGM 119.20 1.10
AstraZeneca AZN 33.83 0.10 Lennar A LEN 60.61 0.08 s PulteGroup PHM 32.84 0.11 TylerTech TYL 176.63 -1.27 ZionsBancorp ZION 46.35 -0.54
Chipotle CMG 281.27 1.76 Fluor FLR 47.26 -0.30 Cerner CERN 70.03 3.35 lululemon LULU 66.80 0.22
Athene ATH 49.30 0.07 Lennar B LEN.B 50.03 -0.03 QuantaServices PWR 36.47 -0.42 s TysonFoods TSN 79.63 0.57
Chubb CB 148.25 -0.93 FomentoEconMex FMX 90.06 1.21 CharterComms CHTR 334.27 -4.15 MKS Instrum MKSI 104.65 -0.50
NYSE AMER
AtmosEnergy ATO 89.10 -0.32 LennoxIntl LII 196.15 -0.83 QuestDiag DGX 92.52 0.06 UBS Group UBS 17.20 0.09
ChunghwaTel CHT 34.45 0.25 12.07 -0.05 CheckPoint CHKP 103.62 -0.33 MarketAxess MKTX 187.98 -0.43
Autohome ATHM 64.83 1.33 FordMotor F LeucadiaNatl LUK 25.36 -0.31 s RELX RENX 23.03 0.03 UDR UDR 39.66 -0.09
ForestCIty A FCE.A 25.14 -0.13 ChinaLodging HTHT 123.22 0.67 Marriott MAR 126.39 -1.23 CheniereEnergy LNG 47.89 -0.01
Autoliv ALV 123.95 0.17 Church&Dwight CHD 44.76 -0.04 s LibertyProperty LPT 45.16 -0.03 s RELX RELX 23.74 0.01 UGI UGI 47.73 0.17 CincinnatiFin CINF 72.66 -0.80 s MarvellTech MRVL 23.83 0.55 CheniereEnerPtrs CQP 27.90 0.34
AutoZone AZO 638.24 5.84 Cigna CI 200.72 -1.27 Fortis FTS 37.74 0.49 EliLilly LLY 83.68 0.17 RPM RPM 52.23 -0.14 US Foods USFD 27.39 0.13
CimarexEnergy XEC 115.41 0.45 Fortive FTV 72.00 -0.38 Cintas CTAS 147.36 -0.22 MatchGroup MTCH 29.96 0.19 CheniereEnHldgs CQH 25.93 0.04
Avalonbay AVB 184.60 -0.42 LincolnNational LNC 73.59 0.09 RSP Permian RSPP 36.48 0.48 UltraparPart UGP 22.75 0.10
Citigroup 72.26 -0.12 FortBrandsHome FBHS 64.85 -0.34 CiscoSystems CSCO 36.45 -0.20 Mattel MAT 18.81 0.28 ImperialOil IMO 31.23 0.29
Avangrid AGR 51.73 0.04 C LionsGate A LGF.A 32.98 0.13 RalphLauren RL 91.94 1.67 Unilever UN 56.93 -0.23
AveryDennison AVY 111.10 0.68 CitizensFin CFG 37.83 -0.07 Franco-Nevada FNV 84.23 0.15 LionsGate B LGF.B 31.32 0.09 RaymondJames RJF 84.97 -0.18 Unilever UL 55.84 -0.17
s AxaltaCoating AXTA 35.50 1.63 Clorox CLX 134.95 -0.20 FranklinRscs BEN 41.40 -0.18 LiveNationEnt LYV 44.42 0.53 Raytheon RTN 185.46 -1.13 UnionPacific UNP 117.86 0.74
BB&T BBT 46.49 -0.08 Coca-Cola KO 45.84 0.06 FreeportMcM FCX 14.24 0.09 LloydsBanking LYG 3.53 -0.01 RealtyIncome O 56.29 -0.25 UnitedContinental UAL 59.69 -0.02 IPO Scorecard
BCE BCE 48.48 0.24 Coca-Cola Euro CCE 38.59 0.50 FreseniusMed FMS 48.92 -0.21 LockheedMartin LMT 314.87 -2.07 RedHat RHT 126.59 -1.92 UnitedMicro UMC 2.67 -0.02
BHPBilliton BHP 42.27 0.61 Coca-Cola Femsa KOF 69.23 0.33 GGP GGP 23.34 -0.01 Loews L 49.36 -0.02 RegencyCtrs REG 67.67 -0.14 UPS B UPS 113.77 -0.15 Performance of IPOs, most-recent listed first
BHPBilliton BBL 37.27 0.48 ColgatePalm CL 71.75 -0.47 Gallagher AJG 66.62 -0.34 Lowe's LOW 79.56 -1.03 RegionsFin RF 15.56 -0.10 UnitedRentals URI 153.27 -0.42 % Chg From % Chg From
BP BP 39.78 0.65 ColonyNorthStar CLNS 12.36 0.13 Gap GPS 29.17 -0.54 LyondellBasell LYB 103.42 -0.40 s ReinsGrp RGA 152.34 0.24 US Bancorp USB 51.91 0.02 Company SYMBOL Wed’s Offer 1st-day Company SYMBOL Wed3s Offer 1st-day
BRF BRFS 12.77 -0.16 Comerica CMA 79.34 -0.06 s GardnerDenver GDI 30.98 0.25 M&T Bank MTB 159.92 -0.27 RepublicSvcs RSG 62.35 -0.65 UnitedTech UTX 116.73 -0.31 IPO date/Offer price close ($) price close IPO date/Offer price close ($) price close
BT Group BT 16.79 0.37 SABESP SBS 10.53 0.58 Gartner IT 115.99 -1.20 MGM Resorts MGM 33.45 0.11 ResMed RMD 85.27 -0.39 UnitedHealth UNH 211.22 -1.38
BWX Tech BWXT 61.04 0.24 ConagraBrands CAG 35.51 -0.03 Gazit-Globe GZT 9.89 0.01 MPLX MPLX 34.86 0.48 RestaurantBrands QSR 65.86 -0.01 UniversalHealthB UHS 100.58 1.81 AMERI Hldgs 3.17 –23.1 –9.2 scPharmaceuticals 14.16 1.1 0.4
BakerHughes BHGE 30.71 0.05 ConchoRscs CXO 140.29 0.66 GeneralDynamics GD 200.04 -0.06 MSCI MSCI 127.50 ... RioTinto RIO 49.01 0.96 UnumGroup UNM 53.90 0.03 AMRH Nov. 17/$4.12 SCPH Nov. 17/$14.00
Ball BLL 39.52 -0.08 ConocoPhillips COP 50.22 0.21 GeneralElec GE 18.15 0.32 Macerich MAC 64.27 0.74 RobertHalf RHI 54.59 -0.28 VEREIT VER 8.05 -0.08
BancoBilbaoViz BBVA 8.36 0.10 ConEd ED 86.66 0.18 GeneralMills GIS 53.65 0.13 Macy's M 20.63 0.21 Rockwell ROK 191.02 -2.00 s VF VFC 73.35 0.76
Bluegreen Vacations 14.22 1.6 9.4 Sterling Bancorp 12.80 6.7 5.3
BancodeChile BCH 85.56 0.47 ConstBrands A STZ 220.45 0.69 GeneralMotors GM 44.29 -0.68 MagellanMid MMP 65.99 0.94 RockwellCollins COL 132.53 -0.23 Visa V 110.82 -0.63 BXG Nov. 17/$14.00 SBT Nov. 17/$12.00
BancoMacro BMA 99.68 3.00 ContinentalRscs CLR 46.24 0.70 Genpact G 31.56 0.12 MagnaIntl MGA 54.12 0.10 RogersComm B RCI 53.93 -0.50 VailResorts MTN 230.01 0.08
s Manpower
Legacy Acquisition 10.00 ... ... Stitch Fix 17.35 15.7 14.5
BcoSantChile BSAC 28.81 -0.45 Cooper COO 238.90 -1.21 GenuineParts GPC 86.91 0.96 MAN 127.55 -0.84 Rollins ROL 45.32 -0.08 Vale VALE 10.77 0.31
BancoSantander SAN 6.46 0.06 Copa CPA 134.87 -2.81 Gildan GIL 31.37 0.07 ManulifeFin MFC 21.13 0.02 s RoperTech ROP 260.58 0.10 ValeroEnergy VLO 82.35 -1.45
LGC.U Nov. 17/$10.00 SFIX Nov. 17/$15.00
BanColombia CIB 39.50 0.24 Corning GLW 31.80 -0.13 GSK GSK 35.06 0.25 MarathonOil MRO 14.88 0.36 RoyalBkCanada RY 79.79 0.84 Vantiv VNTV 71.36 0.02 Level Brands 5.50 –8.3 –0.9 Arsanis 16.16 61.6 15.2
BankofAmerica BAC 26.66 -0.07 Coty COTY 16.98 0.11 GlobalPayments GPN 102.43 -0.78 MarathonPetrol MPC 62.01 -0.28 RoyalBkScotland RBS 7.30 -0.04 VarianMed VAR 108.79 0.39 LEVB Nov. 17/$6.00 ASNS Nov. 16/$10.00
BankofMontreal BMO 78.35 0.77 s Credicorp BAP 212.31 0.24 GoDaddy GDDY 50.43 -0.06 Markel MKL 1080.12 -4.62 RoyalCaribbean RCL 125.45 0.66 Vedanta VEDL 19.16 -0.16
BankNY Mellon BK 52.43 0.01 s CreditSuisse CS 16.57 0.17 Goldcorp GG 13.36 0.13 Marsh&McLen MMC 82.65 -0.80 RoyalDutchA RDS.A 62.15 0.67 VeevaSystems VEEV 62.63 -0.07
BkNovaScotia BNS 66.15 0.33 CrownCastle CCI 111.84 -0.27 GoldmanSachs GS 236.43 -1.59 MartinMarietta MLM 207.13 -0.31 RoyalDutchB RDS.B 64.25 0.77 Ventas VTR 64.24 -0.08
SailPoint Tech 15.10 25.8 16.2 Jianpu Technology 5.75 –28.1 –31.5
Barclays BCS 10.04 0.04 CrownHoldings CCK 58.79 -0.25 Graco GGG 130.87 -1.23 Masco MAS 39.94 -0.07 SAP SAP 113.85 -1.44 Verizon VZ 47.10 0.92 SAIL Nov. 17/$12.00 JT Nov. 16/$8.00
Bard CR BCR 335.18 -1.48 Cullen/Frost CFR 95.48 -1.00 Grainger GWW 200.40 0.77 Mastercard MA 151.25 -1.26 S&P Global SPGI 163.22 -0.48 VistraEnergy VST 19.44 0.54
BarrickGold ABX 14.14 0.22 Cummins CMI 163.39 2.75 s GreatPlainsEner GXP 34.26 0.12 McCormick MKC 99.01 -1.05 SINOPEC SHI 60.40 0.79 VMware VMW 123.59 -1.80 Sources: WSJ Market Data Group; FactSet Research Systems

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GuggBRIC EEB 38.49 0.8 PwrShRuss2000Grw PXSG 31.62 0.4 VangdS&P600Val VIOV 131.42 -0.1 TelInstrElec TIK 2.30 3.4 FT DevIntlEquity RNDM 51.55 ... LibertyQVC B QVCB 25.13 ... SunHydraulics SNHY 63.63 -0.5
The following explanations apply to the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Arca, NYSE GuggChinaAllCap YAO 36.61 ... PwrShS&PIntlDev IDMO 28.04 1.0 VangdSC VB 145.98 ... FT DevMktsXUS FDTS 43.42 0.2 Littelfuse LFUS 215.00 -2.4 Surmodics SRDX 32.85 -0.6
MKT and Nasdaq Stock Market stocks that hit a new 52-week intraday high or low in GuggChinaTech CQQQ
GuggS&P500EW RSP
67.24
98.09
0.3
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PwrShS&P400LowVol XMLV
PwrShS&P600LowVol XSLV
45.73
47.54
-0.2
-0.4
VangdTotalStk VTI
VangdTotlWrld VT
134.00
73.10
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0.1
Nasdaq highs - 245 FT DorseyDyn5 FVC
FT DorseyFoc5 FV
25.55
27.46
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LivaNova
Luminex
LIVN
LMNX
86.22
22.42
0.3
-1.9
TRowePrice
TabulaRasaHlth TRHC
TROW 98.01
36.60
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the latest session. % CHG-Daily percentage change from the previous trading session. AdamasPharm ADMS 34.13 8.4 FT DorseyIntl5 IFV
GuggS&P500PureGr RPG 105.60 -0.3 ProShS&P500xEner SPXE 54.71 0.1 WBITacticalRotatn WBIR 25.44 0.1 22.27 ... MarvellTech MRVL 24.22 2.4 TowerSemi TSEM 35.51 -0.3
GuggS&P500PrVal RPV 63.36 -0.1 ProShS&P500xTech SPXT 50.24 0.4 WisdTrAPxJp AXJL 69.60 0.3 Aegion AEGN 27.92 -0.8 DorseyWrightPeople DWPP 27.92 ... MelcoResorts MLCO 26.76 1.0 TrilliumTherap TRIL 11.75 10.0
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 GuggS&P400PrGrwth RFG 152.70 -0.1 ProShShtVIXST SVXY 114.23 0.9 WisdTrCBOES&P500 PUTW 29.91 0.2 AllenaPharm ALNA 13.45 -2.5 FT GerAlpha FGM 49.70 -0.6 MicronTech MU 49.89 -0.5 tronc TRNC 17.51 1.2
52-Wk % 52-Wk % 52-Wk % GuggS&P400PureVal RFV 66.71 0.2 ProShrUltraDow30 DDM 120.39 -0.6 WisdTrGlbXMexico XMX 29.03 0.6 AllotComms ALLT 5.73 -0.4 FT LC CoreAlpha FEX 57.16 -0.2 Mindbody MB 34.65 0.7 TwinDisc TWIN 29.35 -0.4
Stock Sym Hi/Lo Chg Stock Sym Hi/Lo Chg Stock Sym Hi/Lo Chg GuggS&P600PrGrwth RZG 112.96 ... ProShXinhuaChina25 XPP 88.92 0.4 WisdTrGlbxUSQual DNL 58.61 0.3 AlmostFamily AFAM 66.15 4.9 FT MC CoreAlpha FNX 64.70 -0.1 MonolithicPower MPWR 126.80 -1.8 2U TWOU 68.06 -0.3
GuggInsider NFO 61.99 -0.2 ProShUltMSCIEM EET 94.53 0.2 WisdTrUSMCDivFd DON 34.30 -0.1 Altaba AABA 73.25 -0.3 FT MC US Equity RNMC 21.25 0.1 MonotypeImaging TYPE 25.40 1.0 USA Truck USAK 17.98 -2.6
KoreaFund KF 44.62 1.0 BlackstnGSOSrFloat BSL 17.01 -0.5 ProShrUMdCp400 MVV 118.29 -0.2 Amazon.com AMZN1160.27 1.5 FT MC ValAlpha FNK 35.02 0.3 MORN 93.30 -0.1 20.99 -1.0
GuggS&P500Top50 XLG 184.57 ... WisdTrUSMCEarn EZM 38.60 0.1 Morningstar Umpqua UMPQ
NYSE highs - 179 KornFerry
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Cannae
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GuggS&PGlblWtr CGW 35.78 0.2 ProShrUltraQQQ QLD 73.36 0.3 WisdTrUSSCDiv DES 28.72 -0.2 AmerSoftware
AmplifyOnlineRet
AMSWA 12.60 ... FT MCGrAlpDX FAD
IBUY 38.38 1.1 FT MuCValAlpha FAB
65.04 -0.1 NVE NVEC 91.82 -2.1 UnivDisplay OLED 189.90 1.7
AMN Healthcare AMN 47.65 3.0 GuggS&PMC400EW EWMC 62.71 0.4 ProShrUltraRus UWM 69.80 -0.2 WisdTrUSSCEarn EES 35.96 -0.1 54.65 0.1 NetApp NTAP 56.10 1.8 UnivLogistics ULH 23.00 -0.4
LazardGlblFd LGI 17.41 1.2 ChinaOnlineEduc COE 11.62 -4.1 ProShrUlSemi USD 137.58 -1.2 AnaptysBio ANAB 81.85 -1.3 FT NasdCybersec CIBR
AXIS CapPfdE AXSpE 25.67 0.6 GuggS&PSC600EW EWSC 54.00 0.2 WisdTrUSTotalDivFd DTD 90.10 -0.1 22.57 0.3 NuvNasd100Dyn QQQX 24.24 0.3 VangdIntlDivApp VIGI 66.27 ...
LexingtonRltyPfC LXPpC 54.43 1.5 ClearBridgeAmEn CBA 7.27 -0.7 ArcBest ARCB 35.60 -0.3 FT NasdSmartphone FONE
AberdeenSingapore SGF 12.60 0.4 GuggTR Bond GTO 53.09 0.4 ProShrUlSmC600 SAA 96.86 0.2 WisdTrUSTotalEarn EXT 30.97 0.9 53.73 0.2 Ollie'sBargain OLLI 47.50 -0.3 VangdLTCorpBd VCLT 95.17 0.5
LibertyProperty LPT 45.39 -0.1 ClearbridgeEngyMLP EMO 10.23 0.6 ArchCapitalPfdE ACGLP 25.14 0.5 FT NasdSemicon FTXL
AcornIntl ATV 19.51 1.8 HartfordMultiGlbSC ROGS 31.19 0.4 ProShUltDow30 UDOW 82.03 -0.7 XtrkrsRussell1000 DEUS 31.39 -0.2 32.83 -0.8 ON Semi ON 22.15 -2.6 VangdRuss1000 VONE 119.68 ...
LomaNegra LOMA 23.92 1.6 ClearbridgeEnMLPTR CTR 10.84 -0.2 Arsanis ASNS 16.79 4.9 FT Nasd100 EW QQEW
AlamoGroup ALG 117.93 -0.9 HartfordMultiUSEqu ROUS 30.19 -0.4 ProShUltMC400 UMDD 108.46 0.4 XtrkrsRussell2000 DESC 34.38 -0.1 57.61 0.1 Orbotech ORBK 56.44 0.5 VangdRuss1000Grw VONG 135.95 -0.1
Luxfer LXFR 14.42 0.4 Despegar.com DESP 26.59 -3.2 AspenTech AZPN 69.11 -0.2 FTRisingDivAch RDVY
AlbanyIntl AIN 64.25 -1.2 IQGlobalResources GRES 27.68 0.5 ProShUltRus2000 URTY 81.10 -0.4 28.75 -0.4 OrganicsETF ORG 33.33 0.7 VangdRuss3000 VTHR 119.75 0.1
MFS HiIncoMuni CXE 5.44 0.9 Doubleline Oppor DBL 22.21 0.5 ASMB 39.55 4.2 FT RiverFrDynEM RFEM
AlexandriaRlEst ARE
AlgonquinPwr AQN
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11.27
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ManchesterUnited
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EtnVncFR2022 EFL 9.50 -1.2 RivFrDynUSDiv RFDA 30.99 0.2 AdvShRangerEqBear HDGE 8.19 -0.5 AvidTechnology AVID 7.21 7.0 FT SMID CapRising SDVY 20.17 0.3 PatrickIndustries PATK 96.75 -0.3 VangdTotalCpBd VTC 85.09 0.4
Alibaba BABA 191.75 -0.6 Manpower MAN 129.06 -0.7 Inspire100ETF BIBL 25.75 0.3
FT SpecFin FGB 6.27 0.4 RivFrDynUSFlex RFFC 32.13 ... iPathS&P500VIXST VXX 31.61 -1.0 AxcelisTechs ACLS 36.73 -3.4 FT SC CoreAlpha FYX 60.13 ... PinnacleEnt PNK 29.54 -1.1 VangdTotIntlStk VXUS 56.53 0.3
AllianzGIEqtyConv NIE 21.21 0.4 MaxarTech MAXR 64.25 1.6 iPathCBOE S&P500BW BWV 77.70 0.9
GNC Holdings GNC 5.18 -5.4 SPDRBloomBarCvSecs CWB 52.67 -0.1 DirexEM Bear3 EDZ 9.06 -0.8 AxoGen AXGN 26.45 -1.7 FT SC GrwthAlpha FYC 42.31 0.4 PwrShDWA DevMkt PIZ 27.74 0.1 VSInverseVIXSTerm XIV 119.24 1.0
AlonUSAPartners ALDW 15.65 3.9 Maximus MMS 67.89 -0.4 iPathShortTmFturs XXV 39.88 4.9
GenieEnergy GNE 4.25 3.2 SPDRGlobalDow DGT 82.76 0.4 DirexChinaBr3 YANG 5.55 -0.7 BeaconRoof BECN 60.61 0.6 FT SKoreaAlpha FKO 29.10 1.3 PwrShDWA EM PIE 20.79 0.9 VeriskAnalytics VRSK 94.26 0.3
AmRltyInv ARL 10.69 -3.2 MeritageHomes MTH 51.55 -0.2 iPathPBBroadCmod BCM 32.00 2.8
Glaukos GKOS 23.44 -3.4 SPDRMFSSysValueEqu SYV 64.23 ... DirexMcBear3 MIDZ 14.44 -0.3 Bio-Techne TECH 132.87 0.2 FT TotalUSMkt TUSA 32.17 0.3 PwrShDWAMom DWLV 31.04 ... VicShUSDiscEnhVol CSF 44.69 ...
ArmstrongWorld AWI 56.53 4.0 Moelis MC 47.15 ... iShAggrAllocation AOA 54.95 ...
KingswayFin KFS 5.10 0.9 SPDRMSCIACWIIMI ACIM 78.00 0.4 DirexS&P500Br1 SPDN 31.56 ... Blackbaud BLKB 104.55 -1.3 ForescoutTechs FSCT 28.87 4.2 PwrShDWA Mom PDP 51.72 -0.3 VicShUS500EnhVol CFO 47.31 -0.1
ArtisanPtrsAsset APAM 38.80 0.1 MonmouthRealEst MNR 17.76 -0.1 iShGrwthAllocation AOR 45.66 0.2
NationalGrid NGG 58.46 1.7 SPDREMFossilFuelFr EEMX 70.19 0.6 DirexSemiBear3 SOXS 13.79 1.9 BlueBuffaloPet BUFF 30.25 1.9 ForresterResearch FORR 47.10 -0.3 PwrShDWANasdMom DWAQ 105.53 -0.6 VicShUS500Vol CFA 47.39 -0.1
AxaltaCoating AXTA 36.10 4.8 Moody's MCO 149.89 ... iShCoreMSCIEmgMk IEMG 57.73 0.2
NuvEMDebt2022 JEMD 9.83 -0.5 SPDRMSCIEMStrat QEMM 64.54 0.3 DirexScBear3 TZA 12.63 0.4 Bruker BRKR 35.42 0.2 Fortinet FTNT 42.00 1.1 PwrShDWASCMom DWAS 48.60 -0.3 VicShUSSCVolWtd CSA 45.61 0.2
BB&T Pfd H BBTpH 27.04 0.1 NQ Mobile NQ 4.47 3.7 iShMSCIIntlDev IDEV 57.69 0.3
BlackstoneMtg BXMT 32.89 0.2 NuvMN QualMuni NMS 14.76 -0.6 SPDRPtfEM SPEM 38.23 0.1 FrankFTSEItaly FLIY 25.06 -1.1 BuildersFirstSrc BLDR 19.78 0.4 GSV Capital GSVC 6.66 2.5 PwrShDivAch PFM 25.54 -0.1 VidentCoreUSEquity VUSE 32.42 0.1
NTTDoCoMo DCM 25.61 0.5 iShModAllocation AOM 38.44 0.2
BluegreenVac BXG 14.39 2.7 NuvNJ MuniVal NJV 14.24 0.8 SPDRPtfLTCorpBd SPLB 28.42 0.5 iPathCurrCarry ICI 35.77 -7.6 CDK Global CDK 69.32 0.8 GladstoneLandPfd LANDP 26.94 -0.5 PwrShDynTech PTF 56.42 -0.7 WestBancorp WTBA 25.75 0.8
NVR NVR 3421.90 1.2 iShCoreS&P MC IJH 186.19 -0.1
Box BOX 23.58 1.9 NatlRetailPropPfdF NNNpF 25.47 0.5 NuvNY MuniVal2 NYV 14.20 -0.4 SPDRPtfMC SPMD 33.13 -0.1 MasterIncomeETF HIPS 17.22 1.6 CEVA CEVA 50.30 0.6 GlbXConsciousCos KRMA 18.90 ... PwrShFTSEIntlLow IDLB 29.73 0.1 WestellTech WSTL 4.34 1.0
iShCoreS&P SC IJR 76.54 -0.2
CGI Group GIB 54.13 ... NewGermanyFund GF 19.36 0.1 NuvShrtDurCrOppFd JSD 16.70 0.7 SPDRS&P500Growth SPYG 32.55 ... ProShShtDow30 DOG 15.66 0.1 CRA Intl CRAI 47.30 -2.3 GlbXFinTech FINX 22.38 -0.2 PwrShUS1500 PRFZ 129.72 -0.1 WisdTrEMConGrwth EMCG 26.34 0.9
iShS&PTotlUSStkMkt ITOT 59.70 -0.1
CabotOil COG 29.48 1.3 NewMediaInvt NEWM 17.23 0.8 PPDAI PPDF 8.05 -24.3 SPDRPtfSC SPSM 29.86 ... ProShShtMSCI EM EUM 17.94 -0.2 CVD Equipment CVV 12.90 4.9 GlbX Health&Well BFIT 16.64 0.2 PwrShGlbWater PIO 25.51 0.7 WisdTrUSQltyDiv DGRW 39.98 -0.1
iShUSConsumerSvcs IYC 170.67 0.2
CapitalOnePfdH COFpH 27.09 0.1 NewRelic NEWR 57.96 0.4 PatriotNational PN 0.27 -66.0 SPDR Ptf TSM SPTM 32.41 -0.1 ProShShortQQQ PSQ 35.61 -0.1 CabotMicro CCMP 102.92 -2.1 GlbXInternetThings SNSR 20.61 -0.2 PwrShGoldDragon PGJ 46.39 0.3 WynnResorts WYNN 159.55 0.1
iShU.S.Technology IYW 165.44 -0.2
Carters CRI 107.58 -0.5 NewResidInvt NRZ 17.95 0.7 RubiconProject RUBI 1.77 -1.1 SPDRPtfWorldxUS SPDW 31.43 0.3 ProShShtRus2000 RWM 42.67 0.2 CadenceDesign CDNS 45.49 -0.7 GlbXMillThematic MILN 19.07 0.6 PwrShIntlBuyBack IPKW 36.69 0.2 ZAGG ZAGG 23.70 -2.8
iShEdgeMSCIIntQual IQLT 29.52 ...
CenturyComm CCS 30.30 1.2 NortelInversora NTL 45.54 2.4 SandRidgeMS SDT 1.08 1.8 SPDRMomentumTilt MMTM 113.46 ... ProShShrtSC600 SBB 34.73 -0.2 CatalystPharma CPRX 3.39 2.8 GlbX Robotics&AI BOTZ 24.87 0.5 PwrShNasdInternet PNQI 116.95 0.3 Zynga ZNGA 4.15 -1.2
iShEdgeMSCIMultif ACWF 30.71 -0.1
Chemed CHE 241.57 ... NorthstarRltyEur NRE 14.67 0.6 SeaWorldEnt SEAS 10.58 -1.8 SPDR S&P500MidGr MDYG 155.68 -0.1 ProShUltVIXST UVXY 13.16 -2.1 CathayGenBncp CATY 42.65 ... GlbXS&P500Catholic CATH 32.28 0.2 PwrShQQQ 1 QQQ 155.84 0.1
iShEdgeMSCIMlIntSC ISCF 31.93 0.6
ChesapeakeLodging CHSP
ChesapeakeUtil CPK
28.79
84.35
-0.3
-1.1
NovoNordisk
NuSkinEnts
NVO
NUS
51.99
66.50
0.2
1.3
Switch SWCH 17.65 -0.7
iShEdgeMSCIUSASC SMLF
iShEdgeMSCIUSASize SIZE
39.59
81.89
-0.3
-0.1
SPDR S&P400MidVl MDYV
SPDRS&P600SmallCap SLY
101.40
134.14
...
0.2
ProShUltShtDow30 SDOW
ProShShtMC400 SMDD
22.59
11.02
0.7
-0.1
Cavium
CentralEurMedia
CAVM 88.84 1.6 Groupon
CETV 5.10 12.8 H&E Equipment HEES
GRPN 5.70
37.23
1.1
-0.4
PwrShRuss1000Low USLB
PwrShS&P SC Fin PSCF
30.53
55.08
0.4
-0.3
Nasdaq lows - 30
ChimeraInvPfdA CIMpA 26.48 0.4 NuvBuildAmBdOpp
NuvCoreEqAlpha
NBD
JCE
22.87
16.11
0.2
0.7
NYSE Arca highs - 281 iShACWILowCarbon CRBN 116.07 0.1 SPDR S&P600SCpGr SLYG
SPDR S&P600SCapVal SLYV
236.29
129.77
-0.3
-0.1
ProShShtRus2000 SRTY 33.34 0.4 Charles&Colvard
ChartIndustries
CTHR 1.27 0.8 HamiltonLane HLNE
GTLS 46.75 1.3 HeritageCommerce HTBK
33.55 -0.5 PwrShS&P ScHealth PSCH 96.72 0.6 AkersBiosciences AKER 0.52 -4.2
0.20 1.6
ChinaEastrnAir CEA 31.42 10.4 iShMSCIEmgMarkets EEM 47.93 0.3 ProShUlt3xShCrude OILD 12.21 -5.4 15.61 -0.5 PwrShS&P SmInds PSCI 63.15 -0.5 ArcadiaBiosci RKDA
OM AssetMgmt OMAM 16.30 ALPS EqSecWgh EQL
0.2 68.10 0.1 SPDRS&PGlbDividend WDIV 69.22 0.6 CleantechSolns CLNT 12.40 59.6 HimaxTechs
ChinaFund CHN 22.34 0.1 iShMSCIEmgMktSC EEMS 52.12 0.1 ProShUltBloomCrd SCO 26.61 -3.5 HIMX 13.88 -0.5 PwrShS&PSCMatls PSCM 51.73 0.4 BIO-key BKYI 1.50 0.6
OasisMidstream OMP 18.61 ARKIndlInnovation ARKQ
... 34.61 -0.2 SPDRS&PHlthCareEqp XHE 66.61 -0.3 ClearBr AC Grw CACG 27.13 0.1 HinghamSvg
ChinaSoAirlines ZNH 47.70 8.2 iShMSCIFrontier100 FM 32.93 2.3 ProShXinhuaChina25 FXP 16.38 -0.3 HIFS 210.75 2.8 PwrShWaterRscs PHO 29.88 0.4 BlueknightEner BKEP 5.05 ...
ObsidianEnergy OBE 1.40 ARKInnovationETF ARKK
3.8 36.78 0.9 SPDRS&PSft&Svs XSW 70.35 0.3 Cognex CGNX 145.98 -1.2 Hortonworks
ChinaYuchai CYD 25.29 0.3 iShMSCIJapanSC SCJ 78.91 0.2 ProShrUS MSCI EAFE EFU 23.55 -0.4 HDP 20.61 0.3 PrincplMillennials GENY 33.87 0.1 BroadwindEnergy BWEN 2.35 0.8
OneLiberty OLP 27.05 ARKWebx.0ETF ARKW
-0.1 45.44 0.2 SPDRS&PTechHardwr XTH 82.49 2.9 COHR 320.73 -1.4 II-VI
Cooper-Standard CPS 123.28 0.1 iShMSCIKokusaiETF TOK 64.31 0.3 ProShUltMC400 MZZ 19.50 -0.6 Coherent IIVI 52.55 -0.1 ProShUltPrQQQ TQQQ 139.11 0.4 CemtrexWt CETXW 0.20 -30.0
214.28 0.1 Oppenheimer A OPY 26.95 AdvShKIMKorea KOR
... 32.69 1.0 SPDRGenderDivers SHE 71.63 -0.1 COLM 68.59 0.2 IPG Photonics IPGP
Credicorp BAP ProShUltShtQQQ QID 13.45 -0.3 ColumbiaSportswr 248.23 -2.8 QAD A QADA 42.00 -4.6 Check-Cap CHEK 1.02 -5.6
PBF Energy PBF 33.75 AdvShNewTech FNG
0.7 23.48 ... iShMSCIPacificxJp EPP 47.94 0.4
CreditSuisse CS 16.69 1.0 SPDR US SC LowVol SMLV 97.87 ... ProShrUlShtRus TWM 17.79 0.3 CommVehicle CVGI 11.60 -2.8 IQ Chaikin US SC CSML 28.09 -0.5 Qualys QLYS 61.40 -1.0
32.81 Barrons400ETF BFOR
0.5 40.92 -0.1 iShMSCIRussiaCpd ERUS 35.19 1.6 CheckpointTherap CKPT 3.70 -6.7
Cubic CUB 64.95 2.1 PeabodyEnergy BTU SPDRSSgAGlbAll GAL 37.92 0.2 ConcertPharm CNCE 22.59 0.3 Illumina ILMN 215.96 1.6 ROBOGlblRobotics ROBO 42.46 0.3
PebblebrookHotel PEB 38.05 BuzzUSSentLdrs BUZ
-0.5 32.13 ... iShMSCISingapore EWS 26.46 0.5 ProShrUlShtSmC600 SDD 16.12 -1.0 CitizensHolding CIZN 22.65 -2.4
CurtissWright CW 121.85 -0.7 SPDRSSgAIncmAllctn INKM 33.59 0.2 Control4 CTRL 35.24 -0.1 Immucell ICCC 9.25 0.7 Radware RDWR 20.50 -0.9
PennyMacFinS PFSI 19.95 CSOPFTSEChinaA50 AFTY
0.5 19.60 0.3 iShMSCISouthAfrica EZA 64.00 -0.2 ProShsVIXSTFut VIXY 26.22 -0.9 ConcordiaIntl CXRX 0.45 5.6
DCT Industrial DCT 61.53 -0.6 SchwabEM Equity SCHE 28.38 0.2 Copart CPRT 41.38 11.7 InfinityPropCas IPCC 110.60 -0.8 Rambus RMBS 15.50 0.4
PlanetFitness PLNT 31.42 ColumbiaEMCoreXCh XCEM
0.2 29.59 0.8 iShMSCISouthKorea EWY 77.45 0.4 UBSProSh3xInvCrd WTID 17.40 -5.6 Criteo CRTO 31.82 -3.4
Danaher DHR 94.24 -0.4 SchwabFundEmgLrg FNDE 30.00 0.9 Crocs CROX 11.18 1.2 IntegratedMedia IMTE 10.00 40.4 RavenIndustries RAVN 37.85 -0.7
Praxair PX 152.49 ColumbiaSustGlb ESGW
0.2 30.80 0.3 iShMSCITaiwanCap EWT 38.42 0.3 USAACoreST USTB 50.03 0.1 EdgewaterTech EDGW 6.04 -2.7
DaqoNewEnergy DQ 49.78 6.8 SchwabFundUSBrd FNDB 35.90 0.1 CumberlandPharm CPIX 7.96 6.4 IovanceBiotherap IOVA 9.15 4.7 RedRockResorts RRR 28.71 1.2
ProtoLabs PRLB 93.00 CnsmrDiscSelSector XLY
-0.2 94.58 0.1 iShMSCIThailandCap THD 90.58 0.2 US ShortOilFd DNO 58.87 -1.8 EyegatePharmWt EYEGW 0.06 -8.0
DeckersOutdoor DECK 75.41 1.7 SchwabFundUSLrgCo FNDX 36.03 ... Cytosorbents CTSO 6.80 4.6 iRhythmTechs IRTC 57.70 0.6 Remark MARK 9.35 19.4
PublicStoragePfdF PSApF 25.42 ...
DiamondHillVal DHVW 31.04 ... iShMSCIUSAESGSelct SUSA 108.62 -0.1 US3xShrtOilFd USOD 13.02 -5.7 FTD FTD 6.76 4.4
Deere DE 146.00 4.3 SchwabFundUSSmCo FNDA 37.35 -0.1 DataIO DAIO 14.60 3.1 iSectorsPostMPT PMPT 27.72 0.5 Resonant RESN 6.23 2.6
PulteGroup PHM 32.95 0.3
DirexAllCapIns KNOW 42.64 0.2 iShMSCIUSAEqWeight EUSA 54.00 ... Velocity3xInvCrude DWT 15.94 -5.3 FibrocellScience FCSC 1.36 -0.7
DelekUS DK 32.08 3.9 SchwabIntEquity SCHF 34.33 0.3 DavisWorldwide DWLD 25.83 ... iShCoreMSCITotInt IXUS 62.93 0.3 RigelPharm RIGL 4.47 7.9
Dividend&IncomeFd DNI 13.35 0.4 PureStorage PSTG 18.57 2.5
DirexCSIChinaInt CWEB 58.00 0.3 iShMSCIWorldETF URTH 86.65 ... GlobalBrokerage GLBR 0.50 -38.8
SchwabIntlSC SCHC 36.58 0.5 DSGX 31.23 0.6 iShCoreS&PUSGrowth IUSG
DolbyLab DLB 63.00 0.6 QuakerChemical
RELX
KWR 165.93
RENX 23.11
-1.5
DirexEM Bull3 EDC
0.1
127.99 0.8
37.86 0.6
iShMornLCGrowth JKE
iShMorningstarMC JKG
154.30
180.80
-0.1
-0.1
Schwab1000Index SCHK 25.59 -0.1 NYSE American highs - 8 Descartes
DollarTree DLTR 100.74 0.3 iShGlbTimber WOOD
53.13
70.95
-0.1
-0.2
RiotBlockchain RIOT
SMART Global SGH
16.14
40.98
42.0
11.3 HaymakerAcqWt HYACW 0.90 -5.3
DouglasEmmett DEI 41.15 -0.9 DirexChinaBl3 YINN SchwabUS BrdMkt SCHB 63.01 -0.1 DraperOakwoodRt DOTAR 0.55 11.1 iShMSCI ACWI ACWI 71.24 0.1 SafetyInsurance SAFT 83.50 -0.7 iPathSteepener STPP 30.64 -2.0
RELX RELX 23.79 ... iShMorningstarSC JKJ 170.16 0.2 AmpioPharm AMPE 1.93 27.7
DriveShack DS 6.20 -4.5 DirexHmbldrBull3 NAIL 84.01 -0.1 SchwabUS LC SCHX 62.21 -0.1 Ebix EBIX 76.65 -0.5 iShMSCIACWIexUSETF ACWX 49.94 0.3 ScientificGames SGMS 52.95 -0.4 MartinMidstream MMLP 13.10 1.9
Rayonier RYN 31.72 0.2 iShMornSCGrowth JKK 178.78 0.3 Ashford AINC 108.00 12.9
DynexCapPfdB DXpB 25.02 0.6 DirexMcBull3 MIDU 44.90 -0.2 SchwabUS LC Grw SCHG 69.40 0.1 ElectroSci ESIO 27.08 ... iShMSCI EAFE SC SCZ 63.46 0.4 1.59 12.0
EtnVncMI MIW 14.39 0.4 Senomyx SNMX NovelionTherap NVLN 3.92 -11.1
EPAM Systems EPAM 106.55 -0.1 ReinsGrp RGA 152.54 0.2
DirexPharmBl3X PILL 26.00 2.4 iShRussell1000Gwth IWF 132.58 -0.1
SchwabUS MC SCHM 52.28 ... Majesco MJCO 6.43 ... Eltek ELTK 8.95 30.1 iShMSCIEMESGOpt ESGE 74.80 0.1 Sigmatron SGMA 9.90 2.5 OcularTherapeutix OCUL 4.11 -2.8
EatonVance EV 53.10 1.5 Rogers ROG 168.07 -2.5
DirexS&P500Bull2X SPUU 47.22 -0.1 iShRussell1000 IWB 144.95 -0.1 SchwabUS SC SCHA 69.02 ... IndxPlus 03-1 IPB 28.50 0.5 EnsignGroup ENSG 24.78 1.5 iShMSCIEmMkAsia EEMA 76.03 0.1 Silicom SILC 77.05 -1.2 ProShUltProShQQQ SQQQ 21.69 -0.4
Entergy1stMtgBd EAI 25.29 0.6 RoperTech ROP 261.88 ...
DirexS&P500Bl1.25 LLSP 34.88 ... iShRussell2000Gwth IWO 185.08 -0.2 SPDR DJIA Tr DIA 236.06 -0.2 PalatinTech PTN 1.05 2.1 EsquireFinancial ESQ 17.72 4.4 iShMSCIEMxChina EMXC 53.61 0.4 SiliconLab SLAB 96.93 -1.8 SalemMedia SALM 4.60 -4.2
EntergyLA Bd ELU 25.55 1.2 RymanHospitality RHP 69.59 -0.9
DirexSemiBl3 SOXL 171.80 -2.0 iShRussell2000 IWM 151.77 -0.1 SPDR MSCI exUS CWI 39.05 0.4 PlymouthREITPfdA PLYMpA 26.07 0.5 ExlService EXLS 62.99 -0.6 iShMornMCValue JKI 153.69 0.1 SkyWest SKYW 51.85 -1.9 SVB Cap II Pfd SIVBO 25.30 -7.2
FactSet FDS 197.76 0.4 StoreCapital STOR 26.58 0.5
DirexScBl1.25 LLSC 35.42 0.4 iShRussell3000 IWV 154.47 -0.1 SPDREmMktSmlCp EWX 51.18 0.4 UQM Tech UQM 1.54 5.0 ExtremeNetworks EXTR 14.34 -2.6 iShPHLXSemicond SOXX 181.88 -0.6 SouthernFirstBcsh SFST 41.75 ...
FidNatlFin FNF 40.61 -0.9 SailPointTechs SAIL 15.11 11.3
DirexSCBull3 TNA 69.18 -0.3 iShRussellMid-Cap IWR 203.87 -0.1 TapImmune TPIV 2.60 2.5
SiteOneLandscape SITE 73.16 -0.9 SPDR S&PMdCpTr MDY 339.36 -0.1 Fanhua FANH 23.94 -1.5 iShS&PSC600Growth IJT 170.29 -0.3 SprottFocus FUND 7.99 0.6
FirstIndRlty FR 32.86 -1.0 DirexKRBull3 KORU 66.40 1.3 iShRussellMCValue IWS 86.87 ... trivago TRVG 7.01 -0.1
FirstRepBkPfdH FRCpH 25.68 0.3 Square
StateStreetPfdG
SQ 49.55
STTpG 28.10
1.6
DirexTechBull3 TECL
0.4
114.32 -0.4 iShRussellTop200Gr IWY 72.06 -0.1
SPDR S&P Home XHB
SPDR IntlSC GWX
42.26
36.32
...
0.6 NYSE American lows - 4 Ferroglobe
FirstBancorpNC
GSM 16.50 3.5 JanusSGGlbQualIncm SGQI
FBNC 37.50 -0.6 LGI Homes LGIH
29.07
67.92
1.9
-0.5
StaarSurgical STAA
StarBulkNts22 SBLKZ
16.75
24.90
-0.9
0.5
TrovaGene TROV 0.55 -2.7
FT EnhEquity FFA 15.72 ... Direx iBillionaire IBLN 32.02 ... iShRussellTop200 IWL 59.85 ... SPDR S&P Semi XSD 74.91 -0.7 VantageEnerA VEAC 9.65 ...
SteelPtrsPfdA SPLPpT 21.24 0.3 BallantyneStrong BTN 4.40 4.2 FirstInternetBncp INBK 39.40 -1.7 LKQ LKQ 38.17 1.0 StateBankFin STBZ 29.93 0.1
FirstCash FCFS 66.40 0.3 DirexNasd100EW QQQE 42.95 0.1 iShS&PMC400Growth IJK 213.49 ... USAA EM ValMom UEVM 50.89 0.7 VS2xVIXShortTerm TVIX 7.18 -2.3
SummitHotelPfdE INNpE 25.67 0.2 ContangoO&G MCF 2.87 -2.7 FT APxJapan FPA 35.49 0.6 LeggMasonEMDivCore EDBI 33.21 0.7 StemlineTherap STML 14.95 1.7
Flaherty&CrumDyn DFP 26.99 1.5 ETFMG PrimeMob IPAY 34.92 -0.2 iShS&P500Growth IVW 150.71 -0.1 USAA USA SC Val USVM 51.11 -0.2 VSVIXShortTerm VIIX 13.36 -0.9
TelecomArgentina TEO 34.97 1.6 Network1Techs NTIP 2.50 -5.7 FT BICK BICK 30.70 0.4 LeggMasonSCQualVal SQLV 26.57 3.4 SterlingBancorp SBT 12.94 1.5
Forestar FOR 20.80 -0.5 ElemntsRogrEngy RJN 3.72 -11.3 iShIntlDevProperty WPS 39.16 0.4 USAA USA ValMom ULVM 51.20 -0.3
TemplMktFd EMF 17.76 0.9
FourCornersProp FCPT 26.70 -0.2 EthoClimateLeader ETHO 33.90 -0.1 iShGlobalConsDiscr RXI 106.14 0.2 US3xOilFd USOU 40.28 4.6
TerrenoRealty TRNO 38.54 0.6
GTT Comm GTT 40.95 -1.0 FidelityHiDiv FDVV 27.92 0.3 iShS&PMC400Value IJJ 156.36 ... VanEckAfrica AFK 24.50 1.0
ThaiFund TTF 11.18 0.5
GabelliUtilPfdA GUTpA 26.50 1.6 FidelityLowVol FDLO 29.73 -0.1 iShS&PSC600Value IJS 152.41 -0.2 VanEckAgribus MOO 60.90 0.3
Toll Bros TOL 48.23 0.3
Gannett
GardnerDenver GDI
GCI 11.85
31.88
0.9
0.8
TorontoDomBk
Trex
TD 58.76
TREX 113.84
FidelityMSCICnDisc FDIS
1.0
FidelityMSCIIT FTEC
-0.4
37.43 0.2
50.82 -0.2
iShNorthAmerTech IGM
iSh10+YCreditBond CLY
170.73
62.87
-0.1
0.5
VanEckGaming BJK
VanEckNDRCMGLg LFEQ
44.94
26.50
0.1
-0.1
Dividend Changes Company Symbol
Amount
Yld % New/Old Frq
Payable /
Record
GoldmanSachsPfN GSpN 27.96 0.6 FidelityMomFactor FDMO 31.17 ... iShDowJonesUS IYY 130.44 -0.1 VanEckRetail RTH 86.00 0.4
TriNet TNET 44.99 -1.2
GreatPlainsEner GXP 34.32 0.4
Trinseo TSE 73.70 FidelityQualFactor FQAL
-0.8 30.93 -0.1 iShChinaLC FXI 48.36 0.2 VanEckSemiconduc SMH 105.83 -0.7 Dividend announcements from November 22. JPM Alerian MLP AMJ 7.2 .4741 Q Dec07 /Nov29
GrubHub GRUB 67.84 1.4 FidelityValFactor FVAL 31.54 -0.1 iShRussellMCGrowth IWP 118.83 -0.1 VangdExtMkt VXF 110.51 -0.1 Lazard Div & Income Fd LOR 6.5 .06045 M Dec22 /Dec12
Triple-S Mgmt GTS 28.64 -0.4
GpoSupervielle SUPV 27.38 2.7 FT ConsDscAlpDx FXD 40.00 0.2 iShUSBrokerDealers IAI 59.48 -0.5 Amount
Twitter TWTR 22.40 1.8 VangdInfoTech VGT 167.37 -0.3 Payable / Lazard Global TR Fund LGI 5.6 .08183 M Dec22 /Dec12
GuggStratOpps GOF 21.61 0.3 FT DJ Internet FDN 110.13 0.3 HancockLC JHML 34.02 0.1 VangdCnsmrDiscr VCR 149.51 0.1
TysonFoods TSN 79.79 0.7 Company Symbol Yld % New/Old Frq Record
HFF HF 46.45 -1.1 35.64 EqCompassRiskMgr ERM
0.7 21.43 0.4 HancockMC JHMM 33.50 0.1 VangdSC Val VBR 130.46 ...
USG USG Stocks
HealthSouth HLS 50.06 1.9 VF VFC 73.40 FT DJ SelMicro FDM
1.0 47.88 -0.2 HancockMultiSC JHSC 25.55 0.2 VangdSC Grwth VBK 159.90 ...
HercHoldings HRI 57.70 -0.1 Valhi VHI 5.89 FT FinlsAlpDx FXO
6.0 30.72 -0.2 JPM DivRetEM JPEM 58.93 0.4 VangdDivApp VIG 98.69 -0.3
Increased Eltek ELTK 1:5 /Nov22
HomeDepot HD 172.94 -0.5 FTHeitmanPrmRlEst PRME 20.59 0.3 JPM DivRetGlEq JPGE 62.04 0.2 Mid Penn Bancorp MPB 2.0 .15 /.13 Q Jan12 /Dec21
Honeywell HON 149.81 -0.2
VectorGroup VGR 22.48 -0.1 VangdAWxUSSC VSS 117.87 0.5 MDC Holdings MDC 2.7 8.00% Dec19 /Dec05
Verso VRS 10.86 6.5
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B10 | Friday, November 24, 2017 * *** THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.

BANKING & FINANCE

Indian Lenders Mine Phone Data Beijing

Gets Tough
BY CORINNE ABRAMS

MUMBAI—Indian banks
On Online
have started mining data on
customers’ smartphones for
fast loan approval, testing out
Microloans
cutting-edge technology in BY CHAO DENG
what is potentially a huge mar-
ket for such products. BEIJING—Chinese authori-
Long hampered from lend- ties acted to halt the prolifera-
ing to the hundreds of millions tion of small online consumer
of Indians without credit histo- lenders, the latest restraint on
ries, banks hope to lower risk- China’s fast-evolving financial-
assessment costs and trigger a technology sector.
new wave of consumer lending A top regulatory body that
with apps that look at every- includes the central bank di-
EPA/RAMINDER PAEPA/RAMINDER PAL SINGHL SINGH

thing from Facebook connec- rected local governments to

tions to online-shopping habits stop approving licenses for
to rate potential borrowers. companies that make online
India’s most sophisticated microloans—typically small,
banks are working with local short-term loans that carry
and international financial- high interest rates—and to
technology startups to de- prohibit lenders from operat-
velop, test and launch a ver- ing outside the province in
sion of a technology used by which they are registered, ac-
microlenders in Africa, China cording to a notice reviewed
and elsewhere. by The Wall Street Journal.
“This is not an exact sci- Though the directive, dated
ence, but actually it is a much Tuesday, covers small compa-
better science than looking at Many Indian banks are exploring how the phone-scanning apps can reduce risk-assessment costs for loan applicants. nies, it sparked a selloff in the
static data” on long loan appli- U.S.-listed shares of Chinese
cation forms, said Rajeev phone-probing methods. To work with such consum- online lenders, including sev-
Ahuja, executive director at Lending Club “If we manage to do it right ers, Indian lenders have tradi- eral that went public in recent
RBL Bank Ltd., which is work- Indian banks are testing out mining customers' cellphones for clues as a country, potential for ap- tionally visited borrowers’ weeks and now trade below
ing with partners to use social about their creditworthiness in a fast-growing personal-loan market. plication is the largest” in the homes to see where they live, their offering price.
media to score customers world, said Rajesh Kumar, co- talk to their families and The American depositary
without credit histories. Ecommerce activity Social media head of retail risk at HDFC neighbors, and inspect docu- receipts of Qudian Inc., which
Companies can share data on A profile could reveal if an
America’s largest credit-rat- users’ purchase and payment applicant has told the truth Bank Ltd., India’s second-larg- ments. This process is costly is backed by Alibaba Group
ings firm, Fair Isaac Corp., history. about job and family. est private-sector lender for small loans. Holding Ltd., tumbled as
better known as FICO, last SMS Call logs which could start using the al- Working together with fin- much as 20% before recover-
month began offering credit Banks can look at SMS Information shows missed ternative data as early as next tech companies, many private ing to end down 4% in New
scores in India for the first inboxes to analyze messages calls and how often they year. Indian banks, including Kotak
time using these methods. they get about transactions. respond to them. Commercial banks had Mahindra Bank and HDFC, are
FICO used alternative data Location Phone type around $1.09 trillion of loans exploring how the phone-scan-
sources to “evaluate millions A phone's location can reveal Lenders can see what type outstanding in September, ac- ning fintech apps can reduce
Regulators sparked a
an applicant's address. of phone or connection an
more consumers who were applicant is using. cording to the Reserve Bank of risk-assessment costs. selloff in U.S.-listed
previously unscorable,” said India. Of that, about $270 bil- Bangalore-based payments
Sally Taylor-Shoff, a FICO vice Borrowing Boost lion was personal loans, a por- startup Simpl is sharing a risk
shares of Chinese
president. 20% Change from tion whose growth is outpacing score it developed from look- online lenders.
In the U.S., credit agencies a year earlier the overall loan market. ing at its users’ online-shop-
have been cautious in digging 15 Personal But about 40% of HDFC’s ping habits with its financial
deep into customers’ phones loans between 8 million and 12 mil- partners for clues on their
10
due to regulatory hurdles and Overall lion loan applications a month credit risk. York trading Tuesday. They
consumer concerns. There is 5 lending are from people without credit Singapore-based Lenddo, fell 16% Wednesday. Qudian
also less of a need because of a histories. Most Indians have which is working with FICO as raised $900 million last month
robust nationwide database of 0 never had a credit card or well as banks in India, looks at in one of the largest U.S. ini-
information on borrowers. In Jan. ’17 Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sept. taken a home loan. the number of contacts a per- tial public offerings this year.
India, banks say they are cau- Sources: the banks, scoring company Lenddo (examples); “People are invisible to the son has in their phone book PPDai Group Inc. plunged
tiously moving ahead as they Reserve Bank of India (lending) THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. bank” because it is too expen- and how often they interact 14% Tuesday and 24% Wednes-
await regulatory guidance on sive to nail down how much with them, among 12,000 day and Jianpu Technology
privacy and develop systems Mainstream Indian banks were too expensive to lend to debt they can handle, said other data points. Regular in- Inc. dropped 11% and 13%, re-
to get permission from appli- using the methods on a large before. Until now, primarily fi- Monish Anand, chief executive teraction with the same group spectively.
cants for access to their scale could bring the technol- nancial startups and micro- of fintech startup Datasigns of people is considered a sign Fintech firms providing on-
phones. ogy to millions of people who lenders have dabbled in the Technologies. of a good borrower. line loans and investment prod-
ucts have multiplied in China in
recent years, forcing regulators

HSBC Global Banking Executive Will Leave

to play catch-up. After the spec-
tacular crash of several online
investment platforms, Beijing
last year capped the amount in-
BY MARGOT PATRICK Middle East and Africa when He was seen as helping parts Mr. Westerman didn’t re- Mr. Westerman’s departure dividuals could borrow via
he was recruited by Mr. Gul- of the bank reset their ap- spond to requests to comment comes as Mr. Gulliver pre- peer-to-peer platforms, which
LONDON—HSBC Holdings liver and other HSBC execu- proach to winning clients and Thursday. pares to cede the top role to match lenders and borrowers.
PLC’s global banking co-head, tives. It was regarded as a as a positive force for intro- Samir Assaf, chief execu- retail head John Flint in Feb- This week’s measures target
Matthew Westerman, will trophy hire, and expectations ducing measures making tive of global banking and ruary. Mr. Gulliver said in the numerous startups that of-
leave after a turbulent 18 were high that Mr. Westerman bankers and other employees markets, said Mr. Westerman February he would retire from fer loans as small as $100 to
months at the bank, staff would push HSBC to raise its more accountable for their the bank in 2018, setting off a university students, rural mi-
were told in a memo Thurs- game in areas of investment time. Product and sector CEO search by the bank’s new grants, blue-collar workers and
day. banking where it long had teams were combined to bet- HSBC’s Stuart chairman, Mark Tucker. other mostly young consumers
Mr. Westerman had been lagged behind rivals. ter cover the bank’s clients. Gulliver, left, Mr. Assaf had been a con- who lack the personal credit
hired from Goldman Sachs Those ambitions were ap- Pretax profit across HSBC’s will cede the tender for the CEO job and if histories to get bank loans.
Group Inc. in February parent when, within weeks of global banking and markets chief executive he had secured it, or decided A government-backed in-
2016 by departing HSBC Chief starting, Mr. Westerman and operation rose to $4.9 billion officer’s post to leave, Mr. Westerman dustry group estimates there
Executive Stuart Gulliver and Mr. Phillips announced a re- in the first nine months of in February to would have been a leading are nearly 2,700 online micro-
started at the bank that May. vamp of the global banking 2017, from $4.1 billion in the John Flint. candidate to succeed him, ac- lending platforms serving al-
His sudden departure leaves unit and pushed out several corresponding 2016 period. cording to analysts and peo- most 10 million consumers.
Robin Phillips as the sole veteran HSBC business Revenue rose 6%. ple familiar with the matter. According to the central bank,
head of the global banking heads. Others departed as But Mr. Westerman also in his time at HSBC had “en- In October, when Mr. Flint more than 8,600 online and
unit. No reason was given for their responsibilities were ruffled feathers with his sured the business is better was named CEO, Mr. Tucker brick-and-mortar firms make
Mr. Westerman’s departure. shifted and Mr. Westerman more-aggressive approach, ac- placed to serve our client told The Wall Street Journal small loans, with nearly 1 tril-
Mr. Westerman was a 16- consolidated his control. cording to former and current base with the products, advice that he expected Mr. Assaf lion yuan ($151 billion) in out-
year veteran of Goldman Analysts for the most part employees, at a bank whose and services they need” and and other internal candidates standing loans as of mid-2017.
Sachs and chairman of its in- had welcomed the shake-up colonial past still underpins “reinvigorated our approach passed over for the CEO role —Grace Zhu and Yifan Xie
vestment bank in Europe, that Mr. Westerman espoused. aspects of its culture. to collaboration.” to remain at the bank. contributed to this article.

Mutual Funds | WSJ.com/fundresearch Fund

Net YTD
NAV Chg %Ret Fund
Net YTD
NAV Chg %Ret Fund
Net YTD
NAV Chg %Ret Fund
Net YTD
NAV Chg %Ret Fund
Net YTD
NAV Chg %Ret Fund
Net YTD
NAV Chg %Ret Fund
Net YTD
NAV Chg %Ret
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Explanatory Notes Data provided by Growth A p 26.92 +0.20 14.3 PIMCO Funds P MuLTAdml 11.63 -0.02 5.5 WelltnAdml 73.94 +0.05 11.7 SelValu r 33.45 +0.03 16.2 VANGUARD INDEX FDS InstTStPlus 58.41 -0.04 17.6
FrankTemp/Temp Adv IncomeP NA ... NA MuLtdAdml 10.91 -0.01 2.1 WndsrAdml 79.61 -0.02 15.9 STAR 27.43 +0.03 16.6 500 240.40 -0.16 18.0 MidCpInst 41.39 -0.02 16.2
Top 250 mutual-funds listings for Nasdaq-published share classes with net assets of GlBondAdv p 12.05 -0.05 3.5 Price Funds MuShtAdml 15.74 -0.01 1.1 VANGUARD FDS STIGrade 10.66 +0.01 2.1 ExtndIstPl 206.18 -0.08 15.9 MidCpIstPl 204.15 -0.08 16.2
at least $500 million each. NAV is net asset value. Percentage performance figures Harbor Funds BlChip 98.54 -0.27 35.7 PrmcpAdml r137.85 -0.31 26.7 DivdGro 26.48 -0.06 14.8 TgtRe2015 16.00 +0.01 10.3 SmValAdml 55.77 -0.01 8.6 SmCapInst 69.67 -0.02 13.8
are total returns, assuming reinvestment of all distributions and after subtracting CapApInst 77.24 -0.22 36.3 CapApp 29.79 -0.02 13.7 REITAdml r 120.19 -0.29 5.7 HlthCare r 211.47 +0.79 17.7 TgtRe2020 31.80 +0.04 12.5 TotBd2 10.74 +0.02 3.4 STIGradeInst 10.66 +0.01 2.2
annual expenses. Figures don’t reflect sales charges (“loads”) or redemption fees. IntlInst r 70.49 +0.24 20.7 EqInc 34.96 ... 12.6 SmCapAdml 69.68 -0.01 13.8 INSTTRF2020 22.66 +0.02 12.5 TgtRe2025 18.65 +0.02 14.1 TotIntl 18.08 +0.04 25.1 TotBdInst 10.78 +0.02
3.5
NET CHG is change in NAV from previous trading day. YTD%RET is year-to-date Harding Loevner EqIndex 69.91 -0.05 17.9 STBondAdml 10.41 +0.01 1.3 INSTTRF2025 22.95 +0.02 14.1 TgtRe2030 33.71 +0.03 15.4 TotSt 65.09 -0.04 17.6 TotBdInst2 10.74 +0.02 3.5
return. 3-YR%RET is trailing three-year return annualized.
IntlEq NA ... NA Growth 70.91 -0.11 33.2 STIGradeAdml 10.66 +0.01 2.2 INSTTRF2030 23.15 +0.02 15.5 TgtRe2035 20.72 +0.02 16.8 VANGUARD INSTL FDS TotBdInstPl 10.78 +0.02 3.5
e-Ex-distribution. f-Previous day’s quotation. g-Footnotes x and s apply. j-Footnotes e Invesco Funds A HelSci 74.15 +0.10 25.5 TotBdAdml 10.78 +0.02 3.5 INSTTRF2035 23.36 +0.01 16.8 TgtRe2040 35.70 +0.03 18.2 BalInst 34.29 +0.01 11.8 TotIntBdIdxInst 33.02 +0.01
2.5
and s apply. k-Recalculated by Lipper, using updated data. p-Distribution costs apply, EqIncA 11.27 +0.01 7.9 InstlCapG 40.07 -0.08 37.0 TotIntBdIdxAdm 22.01 +0.01 2.5 INSTTRF2040 23.57 +0.02 18.2 TgtRe2045 22.43 +0.02 18.7 DevMktsIndInst 14.29 +0.05 24.0 TotIntlInstIdx r120.97 +0.32
25.2
12b-1. r-Redemption charge may apply. s-Stock split or dividend. t-Footnotes p and r John Hancock Class 1 IntlStk 19.43 ... 27.1 TotIntlAdmIdx r 30.25 +0.08 25.2 INSTTRF2045 23.72 +0.02 18.8 TgtRe2050 36.08 +0.02 18.7 DevMktsInxInst 22.33 +0.07 24.0 TotItlInstPlId r120.99 +0.32
25.2
apply. v-Footnotes x and e apply. x-Ex-dividend. z-Footnote x, e and s apply. NA-Not LSBalncd 16.08 +0.02 13.9 IntlValEq 15.22 +0.07 18.8 TotStAdml 65.12 -0.04 17.7 IntlVal 39.85 +0.18 25.5 TgtRetInc 13.63 +0.01 7.7 ExtndInst 83.55 -0.03 15.9 TotStInst 65.13 -0.04
17.7
available due to incomplete price, performance or cost data. NE-Not released by Lipper; LSGwth 17.30 +0.03 17.7 MCapGro 93.24 -0.08 23.7 TxMIn r 14.27 +0.05 24.0 LifeCon 19.97 +0.02 9.9 TotIntBdIxInv 11.01 +0.01 2.4 GrwthInst 71.56 -0.02 26.0 ValueInst 39.81 -0.04
11.9
data under review. NN-Fund not tracked. NS-Fund didn’t exist at start of period. John Hancock Instl MCapVal 31.62 +0.05 8.8 ValAdml Western Asset
39.81 -0.04 11.9 LifeGro 33.40 +0.02 16.9 WellsI 27.05 +0.03 8.5 InPrSeIn 10.54 +0.03 2.5
DispValMCI 24.16 -0.05 12.5 N Horiz 55.89 +0.01 29.0 WdsrllAdml 69.12 +0.05 12.0 LifeMod 27.10 +0.02 13.3 Welltn 42.81 +0.03 11.6 InstIdx 237.22 -0.16 18.1 CorePlusBdI NA ... NA
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 JPMorgan Funds N Inc 9.51 +0.02 3.9
Net YTD Net YTD Net YTD MdCpVal L 40.03 +0.02 10.0 OverS SF r 11.41 +0.04 25.8
Fund NAV Chg %Ret Fund NAV Chg %Ret Fund NAV Chg %Ret JPMorgan R Class R2020 23.36 +0.02 14.5
American Century Inv
Ultra 45.65 -0.01
IntlVal
30.9 IntSmCo
19.97 +0.11
21.56 +0.14
21.9
26.0
Freedom2025 K
Freedom2030 K
14.58 +0.02
18.29 +0.02
NS
NS
CoreBond
Lazard Instl
11.67 +0.03 3.9 R2025
R2030
18.03 +0.01
26.59 +0.02
16.3
18.0 Exchange-Traded Portfolios | WSJ.com/ETFresearch
American Funds Cl A IntSmVa 23.32 +0.15 23.3 Freedom2035 K 15.36 +0.02 NS
EmgMktEq 20.01 +0.15 26.0 R2035 19.45 +0.01 19.4
Loomis Sayles Fds R2040 27.96 +0.01 20.5 Closing Chg YTD
AmcpA p 32.12 -0.03 19.7 US CoreEq1 22.27 -0.01 16.9 Freedom2040 K 10.79 +0.01 NS Largest 100 exchange-traded funds, latest session ETF Symbol Price (%) (%)
AMutlA p 41.35 +0.02 13.9 US CoreEq2 21.12 -0.02 14.8 Fidelity Invest LSBondI 14.19 +0.03 7.1 Value 39.06 -0.05 16.1
Lord Abbett A PRIMECAP Odyssey Fds SPDR S&PMdCpTr MDY 338.19 –0.07 12.1
BalA p 27.55 ... 12.7 US Small 36.75 -0.07 9.3 Balanc 23.84 +0.01 14.9 Wednesday, November 22, 2017 Closing Chg YTD
BondA p 12.95 +0.04 3.5 US SmCpVal 39.03 -0.04 4.8 BluCh 89.40 -0.02 35.5
ShtDurIncmA p NA ... NA Growth r 37.30 -0.08 30.2 ETF Symbol Price (%) (%) SPDR S&P 500 SPY 259.76 –0.09 16.2
Lord Abbett F Principal Investors Closing Chg YTD SPDR S&P Div SDY 93.59 0.05 9.4
CapIBA p 63.14 +0.20 12.2 US TgdVal 25.35 +0.01 6.4 Contra 128.29 -0.22 31.2 ETF Symbol Price (%) (%)
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CapWGrA 52.90 +0.12 22.6 USLgVa 39.20 -0.05 13.3 ContraK 128.29 -0.23 31.3 –0.02
Metropolitan West Prudential Cl Z & I AlerianMLPETF AMLP 10.19 0.79 –19.1 iShMSCIEurozone EZU 43.21 24.9 UtilitiesSelSector XLU 55.79 ... 14.9
EupacA p 58.08 +0.06 31.4 Dodge & Cox CpInc r 10.30 ... 10.9 iShMSCIJapan EWJ 59.56 0.07 21.9 VanEckGoldMiner GDX 22.92 0.88 9.6
FdInvA p 63.92 -0.01 19.6 Balanced 109.11 -0.16 9.0 DivIntl 41.76 +0.07 25.4
TotRetBd 10.68 +0.02 3.1 TRBdZ 14.56 +0.03 6.1 CnsmrDiscSelSector XLY 94.39 0.10 16.0
TotRetBdI 10.68 +0.02 3.4 Schwab Funds CnsStapleSelSector XLP 54.81 –0.13 6.0 iShNasdaqBiotech IBB 312.52 0.58 17.8 VangdInfoTech VGT 166.81 –0.26 37.3
GwthA p 52.01 ... 23.7 GblStock 13.97 ... 17.3 GroCo 186.25 +0.17 36.2 iShNatlMuniBd MUB 110.34 –0.16 2.0 VangdSC Val VBR 129.84 –0.02 7.3
TRBdPlan 10.05 +0.02 3.4 S&P Sel 40.64 -0.03 18.1 EnSelectSectorSPDR XLE 67.69 0.40 –10.1
HI TrA p 10.40 ... 6.3 Income 13.85 +0.03 4.2 GrowCoK 186.21 +0.17 36.3 iShRussell1000Gwth IWF 132.33 –0.07 26.1 VangdSC Grwth VBK 159.53 –0.01 19.8
MFS Funds Class I TIAA/CREF Funds FinSelSectorSPDR XLF 26.23 –0.49 12.8
ICAA p 41.34 +0.05 15.4 Intl Stk 46.73 +0.25 22.7 InvGB 7.94 +0.02 3.8 iShRussell1000 IWB 144.70 –0.08 16.3 VangdDivApp VIG 98.13 –0.31 15.2
ValueI 40.53 -0.08 13.1 EqIdxInst 19.52 -0.01 17.7 GuggS&P500EW RSP 97.94 –0.04 13.0
IncoA p 23.43 +0.01 10.5 Stock 201.99 -0.61 12.7 InvGrBd 11.30 +0.02 4.2 iShRussell1000Val IWD 119.86 –0.05 7.0 VangdFTSEDevMk VEA 44.44 0.34 21.6
MFS Funds Instl IntlEqIdxInst 20.36 +0.07 23.0 HealthCareSelSect XLV 81.58 –0.04 18.3
N PerA p 45.60 -0.03 29.1 DoubleLine Funds LowP r 53.30 -0.03 16.3 iShRussell2000Gwth IWO 184.07 –0.22 19.6 VangdFTSE EM VWO 45.77 0.33 27.9
IntlEq 25.64 +0.06 26.6 Tweedy Browne Fds IndSelSectorSPDR XLI 71.41 0.11 14.8
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Mutual Series iShIntermCredBd CIU 109.65 0.20 1.3
NwWrldA 68.02 +0.09 32.2 Edgewood Growth Instituti MagIn 106.68 -0.07 23.6 GblValue 28.44 +0.04 13.6 iShRussell2000Val IWN 125.04 –0.05 5.1 VangdFTSEAWxUS VEU 54.30 0.31 22.9
iSh1-3YCreditBond CSJ 104.84 0.05 –0.1
SmCpA p 57.42 +0.10 24.9 EdgewoodGrInst 29.88 ... 34.5 GlbDiscA 32.20 +0.01 7.1 VANGUARD ADMIRAL iShRussell3000 IWV 154.19 –0.06 15.9 VangdGrowth VUG 138.98 –0.07 24.7
OTC 111.13 +0.39 39.5 iSh3-7YTreasuryBd IEI 122.93 0.26 0.3
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
Bonds
Gain for 5
Of Past 7
Sessions
BY AKANE OTANI
U.S. government bonds
strengthened Wednesday ahead
of the Thanksgiving holiday.
The yield on the benchmark
10-year Treasury note settled
at 2.322%, compared with
2.361% Tuesday. Yields fall as
bond prices rise.
Treasurys have mostly
drifted higher in recent sessions,
with the yield on the 10-year
note notching its fifth decline in
seven trading days Wednesday.
The bond market
CREDIT was closed Thurs-
MARKETS day in observance
of Thanksgiving
and closes early
on Friday.
Bond yields declined
Wednesday after U.S. Com-
merce Department data
showed orders for long-lasting
factory goods declined in Octo-
ber from the prior month.
They then fell further after
minutes from the Federal Re-
serve’s Oct. 31-Nov. 1 meeting
showed officials thought infla-
tion could stay below the cen-
tral bank’s 2% annual target
for longer than expected.
The Fed’s preferred mea-
sure of inflation, the price in-
dex for personal-consumption
expenditures, has lagged be-
hind the central bank’s 2% tar-
get for much of the year, puz-
zling officials who have
expected price pressures to
pick up as other areas of the
economy, including the labor
market, have strengthened.
The lack of inflationary
pressure has been a boon to
Treasurys, which have largely
The 10-year Treasury
note’s yield settled at
2.322%, down from
2.361% Tuesday.
traded in a narrow range in re-
cent months after coming un-
der selling pressure at the end
of 2016.
“The fact that yields have
mostly been moving side-
ways—that’s a testament to
how large global quantitative
easing continues to be,” said
Anujeet Sareen, a portfolio
manager at Brandywine
Global. Even as the Fed has
begun to unwind its balance
sheet, other central banks, in-
cluding the European Central
Bank, have continued to ex-
tend their bond-buying pro-
grams, which has helped keep
bond yields in other devel-
oped markets in check, Mr.
Sareen said.
One thing that could jolt the
Treasurys market: passage of a
tax bill in Washington. The
Senate might vote on a tax
overhaul in the coming week.
Some analysts say a tax over-
haul could send bond yields
higher by expanding the fed-
eral budget deficit, which
would push the government to
sell more bonds.
But even that scenario, Mr.
Sareen said, may have a muted
impact. “The market is still a
little bit suspicious that some-
thing will get put through,” he
said, and the current bill looks
more like “moderate stimulus,”
not something that would send
yields sharply higher.
Global Oil Benchmark Declines
DRONEBASE/REUTERS
CRUDE BEHAVIOR: The darkened ground of an oil spill which
shut down the Keystone pipeline between Canada and the U.S.
Oil prices eased Thursday, after the U.S. market hit a more than
two-year high on reduced crude flow from Canada and falling
supply. Brent crude fell 0.4% to $63.55.
* * * *
Transport Warning Is Shrugged Off
Weak performance is
attributed to downbeat
earnings rather than
deeper economic woes
BY MICHAEL WURSTHORN
Shares of planes, trains and
automobiles are skidding, and
that often spells trouble for
the rest of the market. But
some analysts and investors
aren’t heeding the century-old
warning sign this time around.
The Dow Jones Transporta-
tion Average is on track for its
first quarterly decline in more
than a year, as the index has
fallen 2.9% so far this quarter.
The Dow Jones Industrial Av-
erage is up 5% in the year’s fi-
nal three-month period.
The index of 20 of the larg-
est U.S. airlines, railroads and
trucking firms is used by some
in the market as a proxy to
gauge the health of the U.S.
economy since those compa-
nies are responsible for the vi-
tal movement of raw materi-
als, goods and people.
So when the index diverges
from the broader Dow Jones
Industrial Average, some in-
vestors take it as a sign to sell.
However, several analysts and
investors say the Dow trans-
ports’ weak performance is
due to a spate of downbeat
earnings rather than a deeper
economic funk.
Analysts pointed to a series
of hurricanes in the previous
Chinese Stocks Slide, Leaving Europe Flat
BY JON SINDREU
AND KENAN MACHADO
European stocks traded flat
Thursday after Chinese shares
had their worst day in months.
Chinese regulators sug-
gested they will further
tighten their
THURSDAY’S grip on fi-
MARKETS nancial mar-
kets. The
Stoxx Europe
600 closed broadly unchanged
from Wednesday, reversing
earlier losses on the back of
the falls in China.
The Shanghai Composite
dropped 2.3% to a two-month
low and the Shenzhen Com-
posite slid 2.9%. Early Friday,
the Shanghai index was down
0.4% and the Shenzhen index
was off 0.4%. Hong Kong’s
Hang Seng Index was up 0.4%
early Friday after dropping 1%
Thursday.
Stock markets in the U.S.
and Japan were closed for
their Thanksgiving holidays
Thursday. At the lunch break
Friday, Japan’s Nikkei was
down 0.3%.
European markets were
helped by surveys of purchas-
ing managers released Thurs-
day, which suggested the euro-
zone economy expanded in
October at the fastest pace in
almost seven years. Global eq-
uities remain close to their
peaks.
“Valuations are still attrac-
tive in Europe,” said Stephen
Macklow-Smith, head of Eu-
rope equity strategy at J.P.
Morgan Asset Management.
“On a historical earnings basis,
Europe looks expensive, but
we are in a very early stage of
an earnings recovery.”
Among the biggest risers of
the day in the Stoxx Europe
600 was telecommunications
company Altice, which has
created concerns in corporate-
bond markets because of its
MARKETS
quarter that disrupted thou-
sands of flights among airlin-
ers, including United Conti-
nental Holdings Inc.,
American Airlines Group Inc.
and Southwest Airlines Co.,
and caused service disruptions
for railroad and shipping com-
panies at a time when most
transportation businesses are
grappling with rising costs.
“There’s pretty good diver-
gence there. But the latest
pullback in transports was
more due to disappointing
third-quarter earnings,” said
Leo Grohowski, chief invest-
ment officer of BNY Mellon
Wealth Management, adding
that airlines were particularly
weak.
Still, the quarterly decline
in transport stocks is note-
worthy given how closely the
two indexes tend to trade.
Since 1900, the Dow industri-
als and Dow transports have
traded above their 200-day
trading average in tandem
more than 50% of the time,
according to data from Ned
Davis Research.
Airlines in the Dow trans-
ports were among the hardest-
hit stocks. Shares of United
have fallen 12% since it re-
ported earnings last month.
United said storms such as
Hurricane Harvey disrupted its
operations and caused it to in-
cur higher costs, while the
rollout of new low-cost, no-
frills fares, known as “Basic
Economy,” all contributed to a
drop in revenue, executives
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 1% after topping 30000 on Wednesday for the first time in a decade. The Hong Kong financial district.
large debt piles and disap-
pointing revenue. On Thursday
it closed up 3.9% following re-
ports that it would sell its Do-
minican Republic business. By
contrast, British energy sup-
plier Centrica PLC plunged
15% after saying it will miss
full-year earnings estimates.
“We expect growth to con-
tinue being positive in Europe
and the U.S., with limited
downside risk,” said Adrien
Pichoud, chief economist at
SYZ Asset Management.
However, international
money managers are also
keeping a close eye on China,
where the government is mov-
SEC Accuses Long Island Town of Fraud
BY HEATHER GILLERS
The Securities and Ex-
change Commission charged
the Long Island town of Oyster
Bay, N.Y., with defrauding
bondholders by failing to tell
them about four private loan
deals.
The charges come during a
multiyear push by the SEC to
improve the information local
governments give bondhold-
ers. Last year, 71 municipal
borrowers from Minnesota to
Hawaii agreed to stricter dis-
closure practices as part of an
agreement with the SEC.
The SEC complaint alleges
that Oyster Bay didn’t inform
investors in the town’s bonds
that it had agreed to indirectly
guarantee $20 million in pri-
vate loans to a local vendor
who owned and operated res-
Transports Hit a Pothole
An index of 20 railroad, airplane and other transportation stocks are
on track for their biggest quarterly decline in more than a year.
Dow Jones Transportation Average, quarterly change
12%
8
4 moving away from one an-
0
–4
–8
1Q 2016 2Q 3Q
*Through Wednesday Source: FactSet
said while discussing third-
quarter results.
Both American Airlines and
Southwest Airlines reported
improved revenue in the previ-
ous quarter, while maintaining
prices that helped offset rising
fuel, labor and other costs.
Still, the hurricanes shaved off
millions of dollars in profit
and revenue at both carriers.
American shares have fallen
4.6% since it reported earnings
on Oct. 26, while Southwest
has declined 3.6%.
Railroad companies haven’t
fared much better in recent
months, despite the double-
digit gains they had already
notched. Norfolk Southern
Corp. posted upbeat results
last month, beating revenue
and profit estimates, yet its
stock has fallen 2.3% since it
reported earnings on Oct. 25.
ing to rein in increasing
amounts of debt and cool ex-
cesses in financial markets.
Thursday was the first time
since Aug. 25 that the Shang-
hai Composite finished with a
drop or gain of at least 1%, the
longest period of calm for
what has been a historically
volatile benchmark. This year,
the index has had only 11
moves of such magnitude,
compared with 65 in 2016 and
141 in 2015.
Beijing is now taking steps
to halt the proliferation of
small online lenders, days after
saying it plans to streamline
oversight of asset-manage-
taurants at town facilities. The
SEC also charged John Ven-
ditto, who served as Oyster
Bay’s supervisor and treasurer
from 1998 through January of
this year, with defrauding the
bondholders.
Though terms of the four
private loans could have forced
Oyster Bay to make a $16 mil-
lion payment on short notice,
using up 16% of its operating
budget, the town didn’t dis-
close these loans to investors
in bonds sold between August
2010 and December 2015, the
SEC said.
The town of Oyster Bay said
in a submission to the SEC ear-
lier this year that the town had
been “victimized” and that new
loan terms were inserted into
the town’s agreement with the
vendor without the town
board’s knowledge. It noted
Friday, November 24, 2017 | B11
4Q 1Q ’17 2Q 3Q 4Q*
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
CSX Corp. beat profit expecta-
tions but revenue fell short
due, in part, to service delays
that stemmed from the hurri-
canes and derailments. Its
shares have fallen 3.5% since it
released earnings Oct. 17.
Another big laggard in the
index: Avis Budget Group Inc.
The car-rental company’s
shares tumbled 16% since it
said on Nov. 6 that higher fleet
costs and weaker international
pricing had hurt the car-rental
company, causing it to miss
earnings and revenue expecta-
tion and lower its sales guid-
ance for the rest of the year.
As the transports index
lurches toward its first three-
month decline since the sec-
ond quarter of last year, stock-
market volatility has picked up
slightly relative to much of the
rest of the year. That has cre-
ment products sold by finan-
cial institutions. New draft
regulations unveiled recently
spooked Chinese asset manag-
ers, who are dumping stocks to
shore up liquidity, said Nathan
Chow, a senior economist at
DBS.
Brendan Mulhern, global
strategist at Newton Invest-
ment Management, believes
investors could be caught off
guard in 2018 because the Chi-
nese debt problem is larger
than it looks.
But most investors seem
confident that China will man-
age to deal with corporate-
debt piles, paving the way for
that a 2016 indictment against
Mr. Venditto alleges he ac-
cepted bribes from the vendor.
“It is paradoxical to claim
that the town should have dis-
closed illegal agreements that
were entered into in secret and
were unknown to and con-
cealed from the town board,”
Oyster Bay said in its response
to a Wells notice from the SEC
informing the town of a pend-
ing enforcement action.
An attorney representing
Mr. Venditto in connection
with the 2016 indictment
didn’t respond to a request to
comment. Mr. Venditto de-
clined to testify before the
SEC, invoking his Fifth Amend-
ment right against self-incrim-
ination, according to the com-
plaint.
The SEC is asking the
courts to appoint a monitor to
ated a better environment for
stock pickers, some investors
added.
“Stock disparity is picking
up, and that’s an opportunity
for active managers,” said Ja-
son Pride, director of invest-
ment strategy at wealth-man-
agement firm Glenmede.
“Stocks are showing signs of
other.”
Concerns around how Re-
publicans proceed on their tax
overhaul contributed to recent
declines in the Dow Jones In-
dustrial Average, causing the
index to snap an eight-week
winning streak and swing be-
tween gains and losses in re-
cent sessions. Sectors that had
been performing better earlier
this year, such as industrials,
are now trailing, while con-
cerns about the market’s
health picked up following
losses in the junk-bond market.
Lofty valuations, especially
among technology companies
that have contributed signifi-
cantly to the market’s gains
this year, have also kept inves-
tors on edge, with some be-
lieving those stocks could pull
back on geopolitical concerns
or due to developments in
Washington.
“The albatross for the mar-
ket is valuations at this point,”
said Terri Spath, chief invest-
ment officer of Sierra Invest-
ment Management, an invest-
ment firm with $2.7 billion in
assets. “They’ve been too high
for a while.”
BOBBY YIP/REUTERS
a two-year rally in risky assets
to continue throughout 2018.
“As long as people are confi-
dent about growth prospects,
you won’t see a run for the
exit,” said Isabelle Mateos y
Lago, global macro strategist at
BlackRock Investment Institute.
Meanwhile, the WSJ Dollar
Index slipped 0.1%. It fell 0.8%
Wednesday after the release of
minutes from the last Federal
Reserve meeting. Even though
officials suggested interest
rates are likely to go up again
in December, investors focused
on signs that they remain un-
certain about why inflation is
so low.
oversee its disclosure practices
for five years and prohibit Mr.
Venditto, 68 years old, from
being involved in bond sales.
The SEC also wants Mr. Ven-
ditto and the town to pay
monetary penalties, according
to the complaint. It didn’t say
how much money.
The complaint was filed in
U.S. District Court for the
Eastern District of New York.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for
the Eastern District of New
York also filed securities fraud
charges against Mr. Venditto
on Tuesday.
Government borrowers file
information about their fi-
nances at the time they issue
bonds and on a continuing basis
while the bonds are outstand-
ing. The records are posted on
the Municipal Securities Rule-
making Board’s website.
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B12 | Friday, November 24, 2017
Yield Curve Narrows, but Few Are Worried
Last time gauge was Shifting Signal
so low, a crisis brewed; The gap between short-
this time, investors and long-term Treasury
split on what it means yields has narrowed lately.
BY DANIEL KRUGER
The yield gap between
short- and long-term Trea-
surys has shrunk to its nar-
rowest level since 2007, the
year the financial crisis gath-
ered steam. But few investors
and economists are worried
that a repeat of the 2008 melt-
down is in store.
While analysts have long
considered the gap, known as
the yield curve, a key barome-
ter for the health of the econ-
omy, many are split about
what the signal means now.
Much of their disagreement is
rooted in the exceptional con-
ditions of the past decade:
emergency measures from
global central banks that have
produced little inflation, un-
employment falling with few
signs of wage pressure, and
stock markets that continue to
climb with little volatility.
The uncertainty is accentu-
ated by the contrast in eco-
nomic conditions from the last
time the yield curve was simi-
larly compressed. In 2006 and
2007, as short-term rates
matched and even exceeded
long-term rates, a phenome-
non known as an inverted yield
curve, there were clear signs
that the economy was over-
heating. Housing prices, which
had been surging for several
years, were seen as unsustain-
ably high, securitized products
had spread risk throughout the
financial system, and stock
prices were supported by a
wave of increasingly aggres-
sive leveraged buyouts.
Today’s flattening comes
even as the economy seems to
be humming along, sending an
unclear signal at a time when
stocks keep pushing to records
in a rally propelled by signs of
synchronized global growth
Email: heard@wsj.com
Paint Industry Draws Excitement
The otherwise quotidian
world of paint is turning into
a feeding frenzy of merger
activity. Money is to be made
betting on the prime targets.
The latest news: Japan’s
Nippon Paint is interested in
Axalta Coating Systems,
pushing aside a bid by Dutch
rival Akzo Nobel, which itself
has been a target for industry
leader PPG Industries. It is
unclear what price Nippon
has offered for Axalta, though
it will need to be more than
its current enterprise value of
$11.7 billion including debt.
Akzo’s retreat before a
smaller rival isn’t as odd as
it sounds. This year, the
Dutch company refused to
negotiate over three separate
bids from Pittsburgh-based
PPG, which vies with Cleve-
land-based Sherwin-Wil-
liams for the top spot in the
global paints industry. Inves-
tors, noisily led by New York
activist Elliott Management,
wanted Akzo to negotiate.
Chairman Antony Burg-
mans blocked PPG by invok-
ing arcane clauses of Dutch
law, leaving him little credit
with investors to draw on in
Who Needs a Tax Cut? Companies Are Spending Anyway
Tax cut or no tax cut,
companies could be spending
a lot more money in the year
ahead.
There was an awkward
moment during an onstage
interview with White House
economic adviser Gary Cohn
at The Wall Street Journal
CEO Council this month.
Asked if the tax bill would
spur them to boost
investment, only a smatter-
ing of executive raised their
hands. “Why aren’t other
hands up?” wondered Mr.
Cohn.
But the thing is that com-
panies already have been in-
vesting more. Through the
first three quarters of this
year, capital spending on
Federal-funds rate target
6%
5 10-year Treasury yields to
4 2016–2017
3 2006–2007
2016–2017
2 Range of 1–1.25%
1
0 0
U.S. wage growth, quarterly, change from a year earlier
4.0%
2006–2007
3.5 2016–2017
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
Sources: Ryan ALM (yields); FactSet (rate, GDP); Bureau of Labor Statistics (CPI, wage growth)
and fueled recently by hopes
that U.S. tax cuts can provide a
further boost.
Some investors today sup-
port the traditional view that
the narrowing gap is a signal
that excessive policy tighten-
ing by the Federal Reserve
risks pushing the economy
into a recession.
“The markets are pushing
back against the Fed,” said Mi-
chael Collins, a senior portfolio
manager with PGIM Fixed In-
come, which has placed trades
HEARD ON THE STREET
Color Palette
Global coatings sales 2016, in billions
Sherwin-Williams*
PPG
Akzo Nobel
RPM
Nippon Paint
Axalta
BASF Coatings
Kansai
Asian Paints
Masco 2.1
*Pro-forma including Valspar.
Sherwin-Williams's acquisition of Valspar completed in June 2017.
Sources: Coatings World, Sherwin-Williams
support of a punchy take-
over. The Axalta deal, billed
as a “merger of equals,” al-
ways looked like a poison pill
to keep PPG away, but inves-
tors were happy to swallow
it as long as Akzo could
promise merger synergies
without a hefty takeover pre-
mium. Nippon’s all-cash offer
has made that impossible.
Nippon Paint is making a
huge bet. With an enterprise
Steadying Up
Annualized change in real
spending on capital equipment
15%
10
5
0
–5
–10
–15
2014 ’15 ’16
Source: Commerce Department
equipment has risen at a
7.3% annual rate, the fastest
pace in three years. The
pickup in spending contin-
ued in the current quarter:
Wednesday, the Commerce
Department reported that
MARKETS
Yield spread between the 10-year and two-year U.S. Treasury
1.4 percentage points
1.2
1.0
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0 dent Donald Trump would be
–0.2
that will profit if the gap
shrinks. If the central bank
continues to raise interest
rates, “the yield curve is going
to get flat, stocks are going to
sell off, and the economy’s go-
ing to get hit,” he said.
But with few signs of a
slowdown, others speculate
that the forces at work are un-
like other times. Just as the
Fed’s expansion of its bond
portfolio to $4.2 trillion has
failed to spur inflation, mone-
tary policies intended to boost
FINANCIAL ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
$15.8
14.3
10.7
4.8
4.3
4.1
3.6
2.9
2.6
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value equivalent to $10.6 bil-
lion, it is slightly smaller
than Axalta. The offer looks
serious, though. The Japa-
nese company has no net
debt and a clear ambition to
be a global player.
Crucially, Nippon Paint’s
key shareholder implicitly
stands behind its manage-
ment. Almost two-fifths of
the company’s shares belong
to Wuthelam Holdings, the
shipments of nondefense
capital goods excluding air-
craft—something economists
look to in order to gauge
capital spending—rose 0.4%
in October from September.
It was the ninth gain in a
row for the typically volatile
series, marking the longest
winning streak since 1994.
Tax cut or no tax cut,
companies have had the
’17
means to invest for a while.
Their balance sheets are
healthy, and their cost of
capital is extraordinarily low.
What they needed was a rea-
son, and the biggest reason
to invest is demand.
Demand is looking a lot
better. The U.S. economy
continues to chug along, and
Consumer-price index (all items), change from a year earlier
5%
4 2006–2007
3
2 pening, you’ve seen the curve
1 macro strategist at Standard
U.S. real GDP, quarterly, change from a year earlier
3.5%
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
consumer prices in Europe and
Japan may be holding down
U.S. interest rates. Central
bank rates that are below zero
there are fueling demand for
relatively high-yielding U.S.
government debt, holding
down the benchmark 10-year
Treasury yield when it might
otherwise be rising to reflect
solid growth prospects in the
U.S.
“We are in a global synchro-
nized recovery—everybody
knows that,” said Brian Jacob-
investment vehicle of Singa-
porean billionaire Goh Cheng
Liang. Mr. Goh distributed
Nippon paint for decades be-
fore his son, now director of
the board, spearheaded a
2014 merger.
Akzo’s inability to compete
with Nippon Paint leaves it
vulnerable. PPG has done its
best to temper expectations of
another round of bidding, but
this could just be a negotiat-
ing ploy. The numbers should
still work: The dollar has
weakened against the euro
this year, but PPG’s share price
has outperformed Akzo’s,
which is still 18% below the
level of PPG’s final bid. PPG’s
“put-up-or-shut-up” quiet pe-
riod expires next month.
There is an outside chance
Sherwin-Williams could also
be interested in Akzo. In the
spring it had its hands full with
the acquisition of smaller rival
Valspar, but this was com-
pleted in June.
In a consolidating market
it makes sense to own the
takeover targets. It is clearer
than ever that these include
Akzo Nobel as well as Axalta.
—Stephen Wilmot
for the first time in a long
time the rest of the world is
chugging along with it. Com-
panies that want to maintain
or expand their market share
need to keep up, and that re-
quires more equipment.
Moreover, a low unemploy-
ment rate and the specter of
rising labor costs is pushing
companies to make their
workers more productive.
There has also been a
shift in investor attitudes
that is intensifying the need
to step up capital spending.
For years—indeed, even be-
fore the financial crisis
struck—investors were re-
warding companies that
were paying shareholders
through dividends and stock
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sen, head of multisector strat-
egy at Wells Fargo Asset Man-
agement. “What everybody’s
worried about is how long can
this last. As it gets longer in
the tooth, people are going to
worry more and more.”
The lack of inflation pres-
sures, particularly on hourly
wages, has befuddled policy
makers who have been expect-
ing the lowest unemployment
rates since the dot-com boom
to force employers to lift sala-
ries. The Fed has raised rates
OVERHEARD
Regulators are watching
over the American public,
even in cases where people
really ought to know better.
The Food and Drug Admin-
istration posted a new notice
on its website Tuesday re-
garding gene therapy, which
aims to alter genetic material
as a way to fight serious dis-
eases. Companies are study-
ing the technology to treat
cancer and hereditary dis-
eases, among other uses.
That doesn’t mean the
general public needs to do
any studying of their own
however. The agency said it
“is aware that gene therapy
products intended for self-ad-
ministration and ‘do it your-
self’ kits to produce gene
therapies for self-administra-
tion are being made available
to the public. The sale of
these products is against the
law. FDA is concerned about
the safety risks involved.”
Hopefully some good will
come of the FDA’s vigilance.
Of course, would-be medical
pioneers shouldn’t need to
have won the genetic lottery
to figure out to stay away.
buybacks over companies
that focused on growth.
Lately, however, investors
are favoring growth, provid-
ing companies with an incen-
tive to get into the club.
For a U.S. economy that
for years has relied almost
solely on consumers for
growth while companies un-
derspent, the pickup in capi-
tal spending counts as a
good thing. It could help
temper any shift lower in
consumer spending if house-
holds opt to boost their low
saving rates. And if it goes
on long enough, it could help
boost productivity, allowing
the economy to move along
at a faster clip.
—Justin Lahart
three times since December
2016 and is forecasting four
more increases through 2018,
citing its forecasts that infla-
tion will soon perk up. Yet in-
flation, using the Fed’s pre-
ferred measure, has persisted
below its 2% target.
There is additional uncer-
tainty from Washington, as
some of the curve’s widening
at the beginning of 2017 came
from expectations that Presi-
able to pass plans to boost in-
frastructure spending and cut
corporate and personal taxes.
That led to a surge in expecta-
tions for faster growth and
higher inflation, which lifted
2.609%, the highest since 2014.
“As it became apparent
none of these things were hap-
flatten,” said Ilya Gofshteyn, a
Chartered Bank.
The yield curve Wednesday
narrowed to about 0.59 per-
centage point from 1.25 per-
centage points at the start of
the year, near the narrowest
gap since November 2007.
Most of that change has been
from a climb in two-year Trea-
sury yields, which tend to rise
on expectations of interest-
rate increases from the Fed.
The 10-year Treasury yield,
which typically reflects expec-
tations for growth and infla-
tion, has fallen to 2.322% from
2.446% at the end of 2016.
Yields rise when bond prices
fall.
The yield curve’s pinch has
been especially apparent in
bank stocks. The KBW Nasdaq
Bank Index of large U.S. com-
mercial lenders has slipped
roughly 2.2% this month as the
S&P 500 has gained around
0.8%. A steepening yield curve
tends to boost banks’ lending
profitability, since they can
borrow at low short-term rates
while lending at higher long-
term rates.
—Michael Wursthorn
contributed to this article.
WSJ.com/Heard
As Good as
It Gets for
Deere Stock
The future looks bright for
Deere & Co. That should actu-
ally make investors nervous.
Fiscal fourth-quarter re-
sults out Wednesday showed
that Deere’s business is gain-
ing strength, thanks to im-
proving agricultural and con-
struction markets world-wide.
Sales of $8 billion and earn-
ings of $1.57 a share grew by
23% and 74%, respectively,
from a year ago. Deere re-
ported higher volumes and
higher prices in both of its
main operating segments.
The company expects the
good times to last: Guidance
issued Wednesday calls for
about 20% profit growth for
fiscal 2018. Shares rose 4%
Wednesday and have about
doubled since January 2016.
That move makes some
sense. It is a bull market for
industrial stocks, after all,
and Deere is increasing sales
and profits faster than most
companies of its size.
But that stellar perfor-
mance is already priced into
the stock. The company’s
debt-adjusted market value is
about 21 times forward earn-
ings before interest, taxes,
depreciation and amortiza-
tion, near a 15-year high.
Frothy valuations aren’t
necessarily a reason to sell a
stock, of course. But Deere
shares have historically
turned down before business
conditions shift. During the
last farm cycle, Deere’s sales
and profits peaked in fiscal
2013. The stock, however, had
hit its apex in January 2011,
nearly three years earlier.
Analysts, not surprisingly,
see sales and profit growth
through fiscal 2020, accord-
ing to FactSet. If history re-
peats itself, the peak may be
at hand. Investors should be
happy with their profits and
set themselves up for the
next buying opportunity.
—Charley Grant
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A Former NFLer’s Home Turf

Greg Jennings deferred his design dream to pursue a career in football. Now retired
from the game, he took the lead building his home; helmets around the pool table.

BY A.J. BAIME

WHEN HE WAS IN COLLEGE, Greg Jennings

faced a life-changing decision. He was following
his passion for architecture while studying at
Western Michigan University. But the course-
work was getting in the way of football. So he
switched majors to focus on his game, eventu-
ally playing 10 years in the NFL, winning a Su-
per Bowl ring with the Green Bay Packers in
2011. No regrets.
But when the two-time Pro Bowl wide receiver
retired after the 2015 season, he was finally able
to redevote himself to architecture, and the re-
sult is a contemporary 10,150-square-foot man-
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BLUE WATER, WHITE SAND—ALL ARTIFICIAL INSIDE

Crystal Lagoons are in the works at 16 upscale developments across the U.S. A Chilean entrepreneur says his
patented technology uses a fraction of the chlorine and other chemicals found in traditional swimming pools.

BY ARIAN CAMPO-FLORES

CHRISSY AND EDDIE BALL

already enjoy plenty of ame-
nities at their master- GREENWICH TIME
planned community north of A $25 million sale
Dallas—swimming at the in Connecticut M2
zero-edge pool, working out
at the fitness center and run-
ning and Rollerblading on
trails with their two chil-
dren. But the most prized
feature of all is still to come:
a 5-acre, artificial lagoon
ringed by white-sand
beaches, with shimmering
turquoise water where resi-
dents can swim, kayak and
windsurf.
“Our minds are blown,” ART OF DISPLAY
said Ms. Ball, a 39-year-old London’s top art
stuntwoman and yoga in- consultants M3
structor. “It’s hard to fathom
how they’re even going to
create that.”
CRYSTAL LAGOONS; LUIGI PARISE (ART OF DISPLAY)

The couple bought a four-

bedroom, 3,600-square-foot
brick home with movie and
play rooms in 2015 for
$472,000, in the first phase
of the 2,000-acre Windsong
Ranch, in Prosper, Texas.
Windsong Ranch is among BY THE SEA San Alfonso del
the earliest projects in the Mar, a resort in Algarrobo, Chile,
U.S. to incorporate Crystal features a Crystal Lagoon. PILGRIMS’ POINT
Lagoons—enormous pools Provincetown, Mass.,
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Billionaire Trader Sells Greenwich Estate

point last year.
The house is located just a
few properties away from one
owned by Starwood CEO Barry
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Sternlicht, who declared Green-

wich to be the worst housing
market in the country while
speaking at an investment
conference last year, Ms. McEl- ZAHA HADID’S
wreath noted.
The Druckenmillers, who live
MIAMI HOME
primarily in New York City, REDUCED 35%
bought the estate in 2004 for
$23 million, Ms. McElwreath
TO $6.5 MILLION
said. She said they are selling
because they haven’t been A South Beach condomin-
spending as much time there ium owned by Pritzker-winning
as they had planned. architect Zaha Hadid, who died
Mr. Drucken- unexpectedly last year, is relist-
miller, a former ing for $6.5 million, or 35% be-
investment low its initial asking price of
strategist for $10 million nine months ago.
George Soros, The new list price reflects
now invests the fact that “we are in a buy-
through his ers’ market in Miami,” said Ivan
Billionaire trader Stanley agent Leslie McElwreath of later restored by Mr. Drucken- after a pro- own family of- Chorney of ONE Sotheby’s In-
Druckenmiller has sold his Sotheby’s International Realty. miller and his wife, Fiona, fea- longed pricing fice. He declined ternational Realty, who with
sprawling Connecticut estate The more than 19-acre estate tures plaster tracery ceilings slump. The to be interviewed. colleague Angelica Garcia took
for $25 million, in Greenwich’s includes a 12,238-square-foot and a mural depicting the transaction marks Carolyn Sarsen of over the listing from another
priciest deal so far this year. main house as well as a three- search for the Holy Grail, Ms. the third home to have David Ogilvy & Associ- agent. “There is currently a
Mr. Druckenmiller listed the bedroom guest cottage with its McElwreath said. sold for more than $20 million ates, the buyer’s agent, de- four-year supply of luxury con-
property, known as Sabine own driveway, a swimming The agent said the deal is year-to-date in Greenwich, she clined to comment on the dos over $1 million, so the right
Farm, for $31.5 million in pool and landscaped gardens. further evidence that the said. By comparison, there identity of her client. price point and design features
March, according to listing The house, built in 1910 and Greenwich market is picking up were no sales above that price —Katherine Clarke are more important than ever.”
In the W South Beach build-
ing, the 2,541-square-foot

 ACRES • OCEANFRONT ESTATE REAL-ESTATE DEVELOPER LISTS IN CORAL GABLES property has two bedrooms
and three bathrooms plus an
adjacent studio apartment,
which has a separate entrance.
Ms. Hadid renovated the space
in her signature style, with cur-
vaceous lines and metallic sur-
faces that reflect the light from
an expansive ocean view, the
agents said.
Ms. Hadid bought the two
units that make up the main
LIVE
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ABSOLUTE of $2.79 million, and purchased
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2015, according to public re-
ON-SITE
ON-SITE cords. She had many friends in
Miami and used the property
while working on the 1000 Mu-
seum condo building, which is
currently under construction,
said Christian Gibbon, general
Real-estate developer Don back garden were damaged He and his wife are selling manager of Zaha Hadid Hold-
Peebles and his wife, Katrina, during this season’s hurri- because their 15-year-old ings in London.
are listing their home in Coral canes, the oak trees have been daughter is pursuing her Ms. Hadid was 65 when she
Gables, Fla., for $12.9 million. standing strong for about a equestrian career in Welling- died from a heart attack in
The Mediterranean Revival- century, he said. A tree swing ton, and it doesn’t make sense March last year, Mr. Gibbon
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square feet with 22 rooms, in- the home is in good condition. looking for a new home closer and became known for com-
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The Fine Art of Art Collecting

How London’s buying consultants, framers and lighting specialists find and display clients’ masterpieces

ART HOUSE
BY RUTH BLOOMFIELD
An American art
collector is offering
ART BUYERS MAKE global head- his London apart-
lines when they pay record prices ment for lease at
for a new addition to their collec- almost $5,000 a
tion, such as the recent sale of a week. The new
da Vinci painting for over $450 tenant will be able
million. to enjoy works by
But behind every art collector, Cindy Sherman,
there is an entourage of buying Candida Hofer, Ed-
consultants, gallerists, framers and ward Burtynsky
lighting specialists to make sure and Annie Leibo-
they buy the right piece and dis- vitz, among oth-
play it just so. ers. Below left,
Broadly speaking, there are two images from
three classes of art buyers, says custom frame
Polly Robinson, executive director shop John Jones.
of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Lon- Elaborate gilded or
don. Some simply want something metal frames can
beautiful for their home. Some are cost up to
knowledgeable and voracious col- $24,000, says
lectors with a “huge appetite” for a Matt Jones, in
particular genre. And then there plaid shirt. Below
are those shopping for a status right, architect Gi-
symbol in the form of a Matisse or anni Botsford cre-
Picasso. “They have the real estate, ated a gallery be-
the yacht, the car…they want some- hind a historic
thing that will give them a kind of townhouse in Fitz-
intellectual kudos,” she adds. rovia.
Whatever their motivation, high-
end buyers tend to outsource the
effort of finding suitable pieces to
people like art consultant Angus
Maguire, who spends his days
scouring auction houses and com-
mercial galleries around the world
in search of pieces to add to his cli-
ents’ collections. He can also assist
if they decide to sell a piece later
on. The job also includes advising
on a work’s authenticity and prove-
nance: “The art world is really ex-
posed to criminal activity, fakes and
stolen works,” he says.

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The services of an art consul-
tant don’t come cheap.
Mr. Maguire says the typical fee
is 5% of a piece’s buying price,
plus 10% of any resale profit.
Some clients prefer to hire their
consultants on an annual retainer,
with the fee depending on how
much they spend—around 10% if
their annual budget on art is
£200,000 ($264,000), or around
5% if they plan to spend £500,000
($660,500).
Recently, one of Mr. Maguire’s
clients—he declined to disclose the
name—spent $10 million on a
painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat.
But the piece was too large for the
client’s London home and had to
be left in storage. Instead Mr. Ma-
guire sourced a smaller prepara-
tory drawing that the client has
been able to hang up and enjoy.
Once purchased, buyers typi-
cally turn to custom framers. Matt
Jones, chairman of John Jones,
says a simple wood frame can be
completed in around three weeks,
at an average cost of $700. More
elaborate gilded or metal frames
can cost up to $24,000. Mr. Jones
is currently advising an Asian col-
lector on the framing of a Robert Harry Triggs co-director of TM pieces to their best advantage. He their hangings at their homes ev- high-security warehouse, for rea-
Mapplethorpe photograph pur- Lighting, says one of his clients uses LED lighting to avoid fading ery now and again,” she says. “It is sons of space and practicality.
chased at Christie’s Auction House has 47 Picassos hung in the living while “bringing out the color and done to their own rhythm, but “If you have spent $1 million on
last month. Although confidential- room—and he casually lists other vibrancy” of the work. perhaps they decide they want to a Picasso drawing, you are specu-
ity is key in the art world, the clients’ works by everyone from Some collections are so large look at a piece they bought a few lating that it is going to go up in
piece Mr. Jones is likely referring Degas to Caravaggio, and from van their owners need to relocate years ago.” value,” says Mr. Maguire. “Pretty
to is a self-portrait of the artist Gogh to Titian. works regularly, says Alma Luxem- That’s because many pieces sold much everyone is speculating and
from 1988, which sold for almost “I saw a collector recently who bourg, a partner at Luxembourg & at major international art fairs and stockpiling.” Having art on the
$600,000. had £1 billion worth of art in their Dayan, a gallery with locations in auctions around the world don’t wall “is very expensive in terms of
Mr. Jones jokes that his work- house,” adds Mr. Triggs, whose London and New York. end up on the walls of their buy- insurance, and they run out of
shops are currently “a bit of a role it is to display these master- “A lot of the collections change ers. Instead they’re placed in a space.”
Banksy hospital.” He’s referring to
the smart buyers who picked up
prints, in basic frames, by the
anonymous graffiti artist for just
over $100 and that are now worth
$18,000 to $26,000. Art-Centric Homes for Sale
Ms. Robinson, the gallerist, says
some clients buy art with a spe-
cific location in mind. “Very often
there will be a major wall in their
salon or behind a fireplace, and
they need a trophy piece,” she
says. A few elite collectors, how-
FROM LEFT: GALLIARD HOMES; K10 GROUP

ever, want an entire private gal-

lery.
The architect Gianni Botsford
recently designed a gallery behind
a historic townhouse in Fitzrovia,
in London’s West End. The show-
stopping geometric steel-and-glass
gallery features semitransparent
steel mesh panels on which works
are displayed. These panels slide
along ceiling tracks to reveal mul-
tiple layers of hanging space. $7.13 million $132.1 million
Nearby, the artist Damien London’s Marylebone district London’s Richmond neighborhood
Hirst’s ongoing renovation of a Two bedrooms, three bathrooms 10 bedrooms
mansion in the Regent’s Park
neighborhood, which he bought in In central London, the final apartment at the Chilterns, a boutique development The former home of Sir Francis Cook, a Victorian linen and textiles merchant
2014 for a reported $57 million, by Galliard Homes, is a 2,738-square-foot, split-level unit. Apartments have who had a 125-foot gallery built for his art collection. This included Leonardo
features a new double-height base- high-end kitchen appliances and an integrated home-automation system. The da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, which recently sold for over $450 million. It is under-
ment where he will be able to dis- building’s lobby features an art gallery with commissioned works by the pho- going a $82.7 million renovation by developer K10 Group, scheduled for com-
play a selection of his extensive tographer David Bailey, who has taken 46 images of the local area. Other lei- pletion in 2019. The art gallery in the 38,000-square-foot house, built in 1769,
collection. sure facilities include a movie theater, wine cellar and restaurant. will double as a ballroom.
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THE LATEST AMENITY: LUXURY LAGOONS
INLAND BEACH RESORT A rendering of a Crystal Lagoons project that is part of a planned luxury resort in Orlando, Fla. According to the developer, Tavistock Development Co., the project, called Lake
Nona Resort, will have 250 guest rooms and 80 condominium units. The manmade lagoon will measure 15 acres and offer swimming, sailing and paddleboarding.
Continued from page M1
that use technology patented by a
Chilean entrepreneur to create
mesmerizing blue water with only
a fraction of the chlorine and
other chemicals typical of tradi-
tional swimming pools. There are
now 16 such developments in the
works in the U.S., from Las Vegas
to the Dallas suburbs to the Lake
Nona area of Orlando, Fla. Devel-
opers hope the lagoons will draw
affluent beach-lovers willing to
pay top dollar for clean water and
pristine sand. Currently on the
market at Windsong Ranch is a
five-bedroom, 5,300-square-foot
house with a wood-beamed study
and other upgrades listed for just
under $1 million.
When Greg Singleton, president
of Metro Development Group in
Tampa, Fla., wanted to see a Crys-
tal Lagoon firsthand, he visited the
Diamante resort in Cabo San Lucas,
Mexico. There, a 10-acre lagoon is
surrounded by properties including
four-bedroom hacienda-style villas
with courtyards and infinity pools,
starting at $2.2 million.
“Wow, this is incredible,” he re-
called thinking when he first saw
the lagoon. “When you see it live,
you get a better sense of the scale,
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FROM TOP: TAVISTOCK DEVELOPMENT COMPANY (RENDERING); MEI-CHUN JAU FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (4); CRYSTAL LAGOONS (RENDERING)
the pop of the color.” Wading in Epperson for $253,000 in February tems and vats of chlorine. Soon to overtake it is a 90-acre
felt “like swimming in bottled wa- and lives there with her two chil- Instead, the lagoons periodically lagoon under construction in
ter,” said Mr. Singleton, whose dren. “There are things for each of inject small amounts of chemicals Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
company now has four develop- us to do,” she said. “I’m excited to at times of the day when bacterial It is part of a sprawling develop-
ments under way in Florida that put my toes in the sand and have a growth is highest. Sensors in the ment slated for 1,500 homes—of-
include Crystal Lagoons. Building drink.” water monitor its quality, and fered in Mediterranean, contempo-
each of them costs between $5 Real-estate developer Fernando Crystal Lagoons facilities can re- rary or modern Arabic
million and $10 million, he said. Fischmann created the first Crystal motely keep tabs on readings at architectural styles—with prices
One of his company’s projects— Lagoon more than a decade ago af- different projects and direct the in- starting at about $4 million for a
Epperson, a 2,000- ter a project he built jection of additives as needed. Ul- four-bedroom villa and $14 million
unit master-planned on the coast of Chile trasound pulses in the water cause for an eight-bedroom mansion.
community in Wes- in the 1990s faltered. dirt to collect on the floor as sedi- Now, Crystal Lagoons are arriv-
ley Chapel, Fla., Developers hope He had envisioned ment that can be vacuumed up. ing in the U.S. The $4 billion, 183-
north of Tampa—is making an enormous The lagoons, which are lined acre SoLeMia development that re-
expected to be the
the lagoons will pool with lucid water with a white rubbery material, can cently broke ground in Miami is
first in the U.S. to draw affluent in which residents be filled with saltwater or fresh- slated to include more than 4,300
debut a Crystal La-
goon. The 7.5-acre
beach-lovers willing could swim safely.
But soon after filling
water, and portions can be heated.
They achieve their signature bril-
posh residential units in numerous
towers as well as a town center
pool will include a to pay top dollar for it, the water “be- liant blue color at a depth of 8 to with restaurants and entertain-
tidal area for chil- came contaminated 12 feet, Mr. Morgan said. ment venues. Construction is un-
dren, a floating plat-
clean water and and turbid,” said In the U.S., they are in the early der way on the first phase of
form with an obsta- pristine sand. Kevin Morgan, exec- stages of development and remain about 400 rental apartments, but
cle course for utive vice president untested, though state and local prices aren’t yet available.
teenagers, and a of Mr. Fischmann’s regulatory bodies review lagoon At the heart of the property will
swim-up bar for adults. company, Crystal Lagoons. “Home- plans before approval. be two, 8-acre lagoons surrounded
Home sales began in February, owners were totally distraught.” Crystal Lagoons has opened by lush landscaping and offering
with prices under $300,000 for a Mr. Fischmann, who is also a more than 50 lagoons around the water sports like sailing and pad-
four-bedroom house. Subsequent biochemist, set out to find a solu- world, from Peru to Thailand, and dleboarding. “It’s interactive with
phases are expected to have homes tion, visiting experts around the has hundreds more in various the community,” said Jeffrey Sof-
priced in the $400,000 to world and creating his own lab to stages of planning or development. fer, co-chief executive of Turnberry
$600,000 range, Mr. Singleton experiment. After about seven So far, the largest one is a 30-acre Associates, which is building the
said. years, he found a way to create lagoon in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, project in a joint venture with Le-
Jennifer Rose bought a five-bed- crystalline bodies of water that which is surrounded by lavish ho- Frak. “We think it’s going to be
room, 2,500-square-foot house at don’t require costly filtration sys- tels and residences. huge.”
PROSPER POOL Eddie and Chrissy Ball, shown at top with their two children, paid $472,000 for a four-bedroom home
at Windsong Ranch in Prosper, Texas. It currently has pools, lakes and a cafe with outdoor seating, shown at left, but will
eventually have a 5-acre artificial lagoon with white-sand beaches, depicted in rendering above.
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HOUSE CALL | ROSE MARIE

The Mob Treated Her Like a Daughter

The ‘Dick Van Dyke Show’ actress began her career at 4; today, she lives in the house she bought in 1950

at the Terrace Room in Newark,

In 1933, when I was 10, I was working the Pal- N.J. He turned out to be Bobby Guy,
ace Theatre in Chicago when a guy told my the trumpet player. In 1946, after
the war, Bobby and I eloped and
father that someone wanted to see us. Out- drove to Los Angeles. We were so
side the stage door, a heavyset man with a happy. But my father was furious.

scar on his face was standing in front of a
limo. I later learned it was Al Capone.
Capone knew my father and said
he wanted to take me to “meet the
boys.” The next day, a car picked us
up and drove us to a house in Ci-
cero, a Chicago suburb. Inside, 24
guys were sitting at a long table
having dinner.
Capone gave me a hug and
picked me up. He said, “The boys
love you.” Then he went around in-
troducing me to people with horri-
ble names like Jimmy the Ice Pick.
Capone said, “Call me Uncle Al.
Don’t worry about a thing. We’ll
take care of you.”
By then I was an old pro. I was
born in New York and lived with
my mother and her parents on the
bottom floor of a building on East
17th Street. My father, Frank, was
known as “Happy Hank” and did
work for the mob. He didn’t live
with us. Later I found out he was
married and had a family.
When I was 3 in 1926, my
mother, Stella, began taking me to
see vaudeville shows on 14th
Street, which back then was New
York’s theater district. I’d come
home and imitate everyone I saw.
Mom liked to take me upstairs to
sing for her friends. When I was 4,
the couple entered me in an ama-
teur contest at the Mecca Theatre. I
sang “(What Can I Say) After I Say
I’m Sorry?” and won.
My parents and I went down to
Atlantic City for a vacation and
went to hear Evelyn Nesbit sing.
At some point, I started singing
along with her from my seat. She
called me up on stage, and we
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Turns out, he was using my income
to support both his families.
One night in 1947, I was asked to
open the Flamingo in Vegas. I had
no idea where Vegas was. Bugsy
Siegel ran it, so I did it for him. In
the ’50s, I began appearing on TV
in “Gunsmoke” and other shows.
In 1961, I got a call from a cast-
ing office about a new TV sitcom
called “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” I
asked, “What’s a Dick Van Dyke?” I
got the part, but they needed a
third comedy writer.
I recommended Morey Amster-
dam. They said great. When I called
Morey and told him, he asked,
“What’s a Dick Van Dyke?” I said,
“Your guess is as good as mine.
Just get your ass out here.”
Today, I live in the San Fernando
Valley north of L.A. I have a nice
house that I bought with Bobby in
1950 from the owner who built it. I
sang together. love every inch of it. I have a pool
After, she asked my and a couple of walnut trees. Most
name. My father of my Early American furniture was
said, “Dainty Rose made by actor George Montgomery,
Marie.” Evelyn who was a superb craftsman.
said, “She’s just a BIG VOICE Rose Marie on her 94th birthday, Aug. 15, at her My husband and I were deeply in
baby. Call her Baby home; on the radio in 1928; and with cast members Mary Tyler love. Then in 1964, he came down
Rose Marie.” Moore, Morey Amsterdam and Dick Van Dyke in early ‘60s. with some sort of blood infection
The name stuck, and died that May, at 48. I wore a
but I couldn’t get a ery Sunday. Mother My father took all the money I black ribbon in my hair ever since.
job in New York because rehearsed me at home made to feed his other family and Bobby was very special. I miss
of child-labor laws. My on our piano. I was a quick gave my mother just $100 a month. him. I still have his trumpet. It’s
grandmother told my mother, study. But I had an adult’s voice, My mother didn’t push. She the most beautiful thing I own. His
“You have to get her out of here.” and listeners thought I was 45. So thought she was rich. My father soul is in that horn.
So we moved to nearby Grantwood, NBC sent me on a national tour to was mean. I hated him. She pro- —As told to Marc Myers
N.J. There, we lived on the bottom headline at its RKO theaters. tected me from him in every way.
floor of a house while the owners I was a huge hit before Shirley When I was 16, I became known Rose Marie, 94, is an actress,
lived on the top floor. Temple was born. I wasn’t making as Miss Rose Marie, but my New singer and comedian whose TV sit-
Our new address allowed me to a fortune then, but my grand- York bookings had slowed. Joe Fis- coms include “The Dick Van Dyke
work in the city. I was 5 when my mother insisted my mother buy us chetti, Capone’s cousin, booked me Show.” She is the subject of “Wait
father signed a contract with NBC. a house. Mother found a beautiful in Lake Tahoe. for Your Laugh,” a new documen-
I sang three songs on the radio ev- one nearby in Palisades Park. During the war, I met a soldier tary about her nine-decade career.

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AN EX-NFL PRO DESIGNS HIS HOME TURF

Continued from page M1

sion in Edina, Minn.
The story of this home begins in
2014. Mr. Jennings was playing for
the Minnesota Vikings, and his
four kids were enrolled in school
in a neighborhood outside the
Twin Cities. Mr. Jennings, now a
Fox Sports television analyst, and
his wife, Nicole, owner of the Min-
neapolis-based women’s clothing
business Queen Anna, were renting
a home at the time. Because they
both worked, they had a live-in
nanny. They were looking to buy a
house, but found nothing with
seven bedrooms that worked.
“We didn’t plan on building, but
it kind of just happened,” says Mr.
Jennings. “I was like, ‘You know
what? This is it. This is going to HOME WORK The kitchen, top, is
be my baby.’ ” just off the living room. A large is-
Mrs. Jennings, busy launching land, left, does double duty for both
her business, was more than happy food prep and the children’s home-
to let her husband take the reins. work. Above, the stairway in the foyer
Mr. Jennings partnered with Alex- is the home’s centerpiece. Below, a
ander Design Group, a local archi- seating area in the kitchen; a wet bar
tecture design firm, and hired a lo- and sport court on the lower level.
cal builder, David Bieker of Denali
Custom Homes. He purchased a
teardown for $1.6 million on 1.2
acres just down the street from
where the family was renting. The
location was perfect: 10 minutes
from downtown Minneapolis, 15
minutes to the airport and a seven-
minute drive to their children’s
school. As a bonus, the property
was flanked by two golf courses.
(Mr. Jennings is a 13-handicap.)
The pen hit the paper. Mr. Jen-
nings took his initial inspiration
from a home that he had seen on
the design website Houzz, a con-
temporary mansion set at the base
of a Utah mountain. “He had a
very clear image of what he
wanted,” recalls Kathy Alexander
of the Alexander Design Group. by a window encasement that runs
“He had this vision of a modern from top to bottom, offering a
mountain look. He wanted it edgy broad view of the backyard, with
but not over the top,” she says. natural light flooding in. To the
The home would be unusual for an right is the living space, and to the
area where domiciles are more tra- left is the master wing and office.
ditional, but not so much that re- A contemporary kitchen is an-
sale would be risky. It would stand chored by a big island that does
out, but not stick out. double duty for both food prep and
Future resale also figured into the children’s homework. The kids
the design aesthetic. “We went (Amya, Alea, Ayva and Aice, who
into it with the mentality that it range from 5 to 10 years old) each
would feel timeless,” says Mr. Jen- have a bedroom with a bathroom
nings, who is 34. “I wanted some- (two of those bathrooms are joined
one to be able to walk through by a jack-and-jill sink setup). A bo-
those doors in 20 years and say, nus room above the garage serves
RAU + BARBER FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (6)

‘Wow, whoever designed this home as the nanny’s quarters.

was a forward thinker.’ That’s why
you see a lot of clean lines, not a
lot of trim, and open space. I don’t
like walls. They restrict. They
don’t promote the beauty of the
bone structure.”
The house was designed to be
useful also. According to Mr. Jen-
nings, all but 300 square feet of it
(namely, the bar area, built for spe-
cial occasions) is used on a daily ba-
sis. “I wanted all the rooms to func-
tionally flow into each other,” he
says, “from the kitchen to the great
room and the dining room.” And
while the feel was to be curated and
modern, it had to be homey—not a
“don’t touch this and don’t touch
that” kind of place, he says.
The front entrance opens into a
foyer that has a dramatic view of
the home’s centerpiece: a three-
story staircase with walnut treads
and a railing accented by stainless-
steel cable. The staircase is backed
The finished basement is where
Mr. Jennings did his most detailed
work. Winter is long in Minnesota,
so for much of the year, this is
where the family would spend lei-
sure time. “The entire lower level, I
laid out,” he says. “I thought, ‘OK, I
am walking downstairs. What is the
first thing I want to see? I want a
glass of wine. Where will the bar
be? The last thing you want when
you want a glass of wine is to have
to go a long way to get it.’” space spills into a backyard that Naturally, there’s plenty of NFL “Architecture has been something
Now complete, the bottom floor features an outdoor kitchen and memorabilia on display in the I’ve been passionate about and
contains a theater room, a guest dining spot, a fire pit and a pool. home. Mounted on walls around a wanted to do more of but I never
bedroom, a family room, a bath- In all, the project took almost pool table, Mr. Jennings has a hel- could because of football,” he says.
room with a sauna, an indoor sport two years from start to finish, and met he wore for each of the teams Even as a high-school student he re-
court with a basketball hoop, a as Mr. Jennings points out, when he played for, from his Western calls his interest in architecture,
kids’ playroom (that could be easily building a home this ambitious, Michigan Broncos helmet to one once designing a floor plan for a
turned into a workout space, Mr. “there are always setbacks.” While he wore for his last pro team, the church he wanted to build for his
Jennings says), and the bar, which digging out the area for the indoor Miami Dolphins. Also on display is father, who is a pastor. “Football
has a nook where Mr. and Mrs. sport court, groundwater became a football he caught for a touch- stunted the furthering of my educa-
Jennings can have a glass of wine an issue. Winter also caused major down in Super Bowl XLV. Still, the tion in this way,” he says. “I
with some privacy from the chil- headaches, delaying construction house itself might be Mr. Jennings’ couldn’t pursue this passion like I
dren. The flow of this downstairs on the outdoor kitchen. favorite trophy of all. wanted, until now.”