Thursday, August 20, 2015
General
- Greek prime minister resigns, calls snap elections to shore up support
- S&P 500 Falls for Third Day as Global Growth Concerns Intensify
- European Stock Selloff Intensifies Amid Global Growth Concern
- Gold Climbs to One-Month High as Bets Fall on U.S. Rate Increase
- Kazakhstan Tenge Slides 23% as Emerging-Market Rout
- Malaysia Rules Out Capital Controls as Currency Plunges
- Turkey’s Deepening Turmoil Sends Currency to Record Low
- Brazil’s Unemployment Rises More Than All Forecasts in July
- Currency turmoil in emerging markets escalates
- U.S. crude prices fall towards $40 on global glut
- Impact of Tianjin disaster reverberates across Chinese economy
- Asian Stocks Fall Fifth Day on Fed Minutes, China Slowdown Fears
- Kazakhstan Scraps Currency Trading Band, Moves to Free Float
- Bulls Walk Away From U.S. Options Market as Put-Call Ratio Jumps
- Fed's Williams: Raising rates to pop housing bubbles 'very costly'
- July Was Earth’s Warmest Month in Records Going Back to 1880
- North, South Korea Trade Fire Along Border as Tensions Worsen
- Four Ukrainian soldiers killed as fighting tests truce
Evening
- Stock Rout Snowballs in Asia After U.S. Dethroned; Crude Tumbles
- Asia slides after Wall Street caves, dollar extends losses
- S&P 500 Slides Most Since Feb 2014 as Emerging-Asset Rout Spread
- S&P 500 Drops Below Trading Range as Global Selloff Intensifies
- Tensions rise as North and South Korea exchange fire