Sixteen years of above-average returns came mostly from rising valuations, and that is the one source that cannot be repeated from here...

Exposure to a commonly used herbicide was associated with a threefold increase in pancreatic cancer risk...

Winter blending needs more butane at home just as Europe's imports hit a multi-year low. Perfect storm, ugly prices...

• APAC stocks were pressured; KOSPI slumped 6% following hefty losses in Samsung and SK Hynix.
• However, the tech-sell off has stabilised in early European trade; ASML +3%.

End goal to crash the Trump economy? 

France's parliament just killed the budget. The deficit is the worst in a generation, and the only bailout path runs through German savers...

Two is the loneliest number?

"Pain levels are high..." as credit blows out and stocks suffer record $2.8TN market cap loss...

The statement said the camp was holding "mobilized servicemen" who had been "detained after committing an unauthorized abandonment of the unit..."

"This is the most aggressive posture I've seen Russia take in terms of threatening satellites from another nation..."

Tusk claims his seizure of power is necessary to restore the court's "legitimacy" after years of PiS influence and accused Nawrocki and the conservatives of blocking judicial reforms...

Oh it's creepy alright...

$17.5 billion of junk bonds back data centers in newly blue states that aren't due to be finished until after Texas lawmakers go home. On the biggest one, every quarter of delay costs about $87 million in interest.

Deals a heavy blow to Netanyahu...