Market Snapshot
  • U.S.
  • Europe
  • Asia
Ticker Volume Price Price Delta
DJIA 15,354.40 +121.18 0.80%
S&P 500 1,667.47 +17.00 1.03%
Nasdaq 3,498.97 +33.72 0.97%
Ticker Volume Price Price Delta
STOXX 50 2,817.99 +11.29 0.40%
FTSE 100 6,723.06 +35.26 0.53%
DAX 8,398.00 +28.13 0.34%
Ticker Volume Price Price Delta
Nikkei 15,138.10 +100.88 0.67%
Hang Seng 23,082.70 +38.44 0.17%
S&P/ASX 200 5,180.77 +15.11 0.29%

Commentary

Eleven years ago, economic historian Niall Ferguson and I marked the euro’s birth with a Foreign Affairs article titled... READ MORE

It’s as predictable as political leadership gets: When things go awry at home, escape overseas for a while, grip and... READ MORE

William Pesek

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Edward Glaeser

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Jeffrey Goldberg

The increasingly sharp campaign- trail exchanges between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry about Social Security reflect a... READ MORE

Ramesh Ponnuru

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Until recently, the standard narrative most analysts applied to macroeconomic news went like this: We had a major... READ MORE

Simon Johnson

Two notions, trickle down and stimulus, crystallize why President Barack Obama has bigger problems than just a 9.1... READ MORE

Albert Hunt

When I worked at a newsmagazine and the editors needed a headline for the cover after some major event, we often hauled... READ MORE

Jonathan Alter

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