The S&P 500 posts a gain of 0.7%. Discover Financial Services (DFS
12.20, -1.60) settled an antitrust lawsuit with MasterCard (MA 179.70,
+6.10) and Visa (V 58.75, -0.12), according to Reuters. The judge did
not give the settlement details, although in 2004 Discover filed
lawsuit seeking roughly $6 billion, according to the report.