Ugly start to the day. Yesterday the US took it on the chin. Today: Europe. Flash PMI from across the Eurozone is coming in bad. Germany is down 1.8%. And Italy is getting clobbered. Please follow Money...

Stocks are way down early in the Asian trading session. Japan’s Nikkei is down 0.7 percent. Korea’s Kospi is down 0.4 percent. Australia’s S&P/ASX is down 1.5 percent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is down 1.4 percent. China’s...

Boy, things have gotten quiet in markets. Michel Block of Phoenix Partners sums it up: We’ve gotten to the point where a five handle range overnight seems exciting.  SPUs are up 3 within that range as we...

As growth slows in Western economies, companies are increasingly looking to emerging markets for growth. That means they’ll expect their future leaders to not only be familiar with these markets, but to have spent significant time there. ...

I was fortunate enough to guest host this morning on Surveillance on Bloomberg TV. The big word that everyone was using: SEISMIC. That’s the best way to describe what’s going on in Japan, where the yen is...

Bill Gross the PIMCO fund manager known as the “Bond King,” is out with his February investment letter, titled “Credit Supernova!“ This month, Gross tackles the relationship between credit expansion and real growth. He channels the late...

Asian markets have opened modestly higher, after the S&P 500 ended its 8-day winning streak. The Nikkei is modestly higher. Remember it has been up after Shinzo Abe came to power on promises of more aggressive stimulus...

SocGen’s Michala Marcusen has a great paragraph on Davos in her latest weekly note. A more confident mood marked this year’s Davos meetings, but new concerns relating to unconventional monetary policies and currencies are emerging. French Minister...

Ever since the release of the minutes from the Federal Reserve’s most recent policy meeting – which surprised markets by striking a hawkish tone – one question has gripped investors perhaps more than any other: when will...

Markets are generally drifting a bit lower today. US futures are down a it. Spain is off 0.27%. Italy down 0.6%. Germany flat. The big loser though? Japan, which has seen its market weaken ever since the...