Markets in Hong Kong and China climbed Monday. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index rose 1.7% to 22,685 and China’s Shanghai Composite Index inched up 0.1% to end the day at 2,909. Japanese markets were closed today, taking a much-neede…
Recent market sell-offs may have been more about paranoia than about real risk. JPMorgan calculations indicate that the potential impact of rising oil prices on the economy may be less than most investors think. But the fear fa…
Brent crude traded at $107.68 today as West Texas crude prices moved to $94.24. Oil prices don’t immediately transfer to gasoline pump prices, but they surely have an impact as crude moves through refineries into finished produ…