We're left with some pretty dreary action in individual stocks.
Here is how I plan to play a sideways market should the hedge fund manager's views turn out to be prescient.
The Alibaba co-founder will spend time in Tokyo, Tel Aviv and Hong Kong, giving him plenty of reasons to extend his self-imposed exile outside mainland China.
What's most important isn't the actual news but the reaction to that news.
The real news Monday morning is that JPMorgan is taking over First Republic Bank.
Here's what I've been buying this week. Try not get burned, and generate above-market returns.
It is eerie how this economic and political environment seems more and more like a previous era.
We always cringe when everyone has the same expectations.
The best thing this firm could do to improve its situation would be to aggressively accelerate its cost cutting program.
The Bank of Japan wrapped up its first interest rate meeting under new Governor Kazuo Ueda, who will go slow with the policy review.