China is back after its one-week Lunar New Year holiday, and stock are up. China’s Shanghai Composite is up around 0.4 percent to start the week. Japan’s Nikkei, however, is up a solid 2.0 percent. G20 leaders,...

Comcast is buying the remaining 49 percent of NBC Universal from GE for a$ 16.7 billion. And the market seems to think this is a win-win. Shares of Comcast are up 8 percent.   Shares of GE are...

Futures contracts for wheat and corn are both trading up big this afternoon since 12 PM ET when the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. The report is one...

Almost all of the global financial markets are closed for Christmas.  But Japan and China are open and traders seem full of holiday cheer. Japan’s Nikkei is up 1.3 percent. China’s Shanghai Composite is up 1.1 percent....

The markets like Shinzo Abe’s huge win in the Japanese election. A clear mandate + a promise of more easing! What’s not to like? The Nikkei is near an 9-month high. Please follow Money Game on Twitter...

David Rosenberg’s contribution to our feature on The Most Important Charts In The World almost certainly says a lot about the appetite for stocks vs. Treasuries. Here’s Rosenberg’s full slide…   Click here to see the rest...

Markets in Europe are up across the board early in the Friday trading session.  This is on the tail of rumors that the global central banks were considering some sort of globally coordinated action to boost liquidity...