SkyFall: China stocks slowed their slide today, but still closed off by 1.3 percent. Futures indicate that the American markets will open higher, but they also did that yesterday and it was a false promise. The Down Jones averages opened …

SkyFall: Easy come, easy go. European stocks jumped today even though China’s main index dropped another 7.6 percent and Tokyo’s Nikkei was four percent lower. US stock futures are up 600 points this morning after the drama that began last …

—From Franklin, Tenn.   Econ 101: The Dow Jones gained 267 points this past week on encouraging news about job growth. The economy added 223,000 jobs in April and the unemployment rate fell to 5.4%, its lowest point since 2009. …

Hillary E-Splains: Presidential possible Hillary Clinton explained her use of private email while she was secretary of state as a matter of “convenience.” In her first public remarks on the subject she said she didn’t want to have to use …

French Massacre: Twelve people are dead in Paris today in a massacre at the offices of the weekly French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Gunmen entered the offices in late morning, asking for some people by name, according to reports. Several …

Econ 101: The Dow Jones rose 421 points yesterday, the market’s biggest one-day spike in three years. Investors were excited about earnings reports. At the same time the price of oil continued to slide under $56 a barrel. While that’s …

Econ 101: US stocks took a slide yesterday greased by the falling price of oil. The Dow Jones dropped 268 points as oil headed toward $60 a barrel, the lowest in five years. US oil production, among other factors, is …

Trucefire: A 72-hour ceasefire that started at 8am local time in Gaza collapsed hours after it began. An Israeli infantry officer appears to have been captured by Hamas gunmen who emerged from a tunnel and a suicide bomber killed two …

Fireworks: Hurricane Arthur battered the North Carolina coast overnight before moving back north over the Atlantic. Damage is believed to be minimal. Arthur has dropped to a Category 1 with winds up to 90 mph. Heavy rain is expected up …

Nation: Senate Republicans blocked a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, saying a hike would slow the economy and force employers to shed hundreds of thousands of jobs. The federal minimum is now $7.25. But …