Market Snapshot
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  • Europe
  • Asia
Ticker Volume Price Price Delta
DJIA 14,959.90 -173.27 -1.14%
S&P 500 1,675.14 -18.73 -1.11%
Nasdaq 3,762.39 -52.63 -1.38%
Ticker Volume Price Price Delta
STOXX 50 2,902.12 -16.19 -0.55%
FTSE 100 6,449.04 +11.54 0.18%
DAX 8,597.91 -31.51 -0.37%
Ticker Volume Price Price Delta
Nikkei 14,157.20 -13.24 -0.09%
Hang Seng 23,214.40 +229.92 1.00%
S&P/ASX 200 5,234.89 +19.33 0.37%

Caroline Baum

Caroline Baum is a Bloomberg View columnist appearing on Thursdays. The author of "Just What I Said: Bloomberg Economics Columnist Takes on Bonds, Banks, Budgets and Bubbles," she has been a Bloomberg columnist since 1998.

In 2004 and 2005 Baum received first-place National Headliner Awards in the wire service/commentary category. From 2002 to 2003, Baum hosted the weekend radio talk show "No Nonsense" on Bloomberg Radio. Before coming to Bloomberg News, she was a columnist for Dow Jones, and has been writing about the economy and the bond market since 1987. Baum has a B.A. in political science from Tufts University and an M.A. in cinema studies from New York University. She lives in West Tisbury, Mass.

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