Bullish Blog

Reuters - The euro and Asian stocks slipped on Tuesday on creeping suspicion that a peak in the recovery has passed and slowing growth in China and Europe in the second half of the year will be obstacles to risky trades.

AP - World stocks fell Tuesday amid news China’s manufacturing slowed in May and as investors fretted Europe’s shaky government finances could undermine the global economic recovery.

AP - European stock markets traded mostly flat Monday as investors shrugged off more sobering news about shaky government finances ahead of a busy schedule of U.S. economic data later in the week.

AP - Europe has spooked stock investors. Will it spook shoppers, too?

AFP - Wall Street, still wracked by the eurozone crisis, has a long holiday weekend to recover from a miserable May before facing a packed economic calendar capped by the monthly jobs data.

There are signs that investors are realizing the real value of gold — and that gold stocks are like owning a piece of the moneymaking machine.

AP - Shares of children’s entertainment licensing company 4Kids Entertainment Inc. are being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange because the company’s market capitalization has fallen.

AP - Stocks closed out their worst month in more than a year by sliding again on more unsettling news about Europe.

FT.com - Gold looks like a classic investment bubble. Not just any mania, but the best-known bubble of the 20th century: the Dow Jones Industrial Average before it spectacularly blew up in 1929. Since the start of 2006, rises in the gold price have been spookily similar to the Dow’s run up to 1928. Charts of gold soaring also look remarkably like the build-up to the 2008 oil price bubble. And the dotcom boom. …

AP - A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday: