Bull Radar

Style Outperformer:

• Small-Cap Value +2.08%

Sector Outperformers:

• 1) Coal +9.29% 2) Gaming +3.95% 3) Oil Service +3.66%
  

Stocks Rising on Unusual Volume:

• ONCE, ACOR, UVE, KN, LVS, BUFF, JOY, NAV, MU, GWR, FET, ANIP and DE

Stocks With Unusual Call Option Activity:

• 1) REC 2) THC 3) MAC 4) VRX 5) EMES
  

Stocks With Most Positive News Mentions:

• 1) GE 2) HAL 3) JNPR 4) LMT 5) MCD
  

Charts:

• ETFs Rising on Unusual Volume 

• Stocks Rising on Unusual Volume

Morning Market Internals

NYSE Composite Index:

• Volume Running 27.6% Above 100-Day Average
• 9 Sectors Rising, 1 Sector Declining
• 86.7% of Issues Advancing, 11.6% Declining
• 38 New 52-Week Highs, 12 New Lows
• 23.4% of Issues Above 200-day Moving Average
• Average 14-Day RSI 40.2
• Vix 19.9
• Total Put/Call 1.0
• TRIN/Arms .42

Monday Watch

Today's Headlines 

Bloomberg: 

• World's Central Banks Lose Bond-Market Credibility as Woes Mount. More and more, bond traders are drawing the same conclusion: central bankers globally are coming up short in their attempts to combat the world’s economic woes. Even after hundreds of interest-rate cuts and trillions of dollars in quantitative easing, the bond market’s outlook for inflation worldwide is approaching lows last seen during the financial crisis. In the U.S., Europe, U.K., and Japan, those expectations are now weaker than they were before their respective central banks began their last rounds of bond buying.

• China Weighs on Developing East Asia as World Bank Cuts Outlooks. Developing East Asian economies are feeling the weight of China’s growth slowdown, with the World Bank cutting the region’s growth forecasts through 2017. China’s growth will cool to 6.9 percent in 2015, slower than the 7.1 percent rate predicted in April, the World Bank said in its East Asia and Pacific Economic Update released Monday. Expansion will ease to 6.7 percent next year and 6.5 percent in 2017, it said. Developing East Asia will expand 6.5 percent this year, slower than the 6.7 percent predicted in April. Slower-than-expected growth in China will put pressure on commodity exporters, as well as trade, foreign direct investment and tourism in the region, the World Bank said. The region’s worsening economic outlook comes at a time when the scope to ease monetary policy is constrained by the need to safeguard financial stability, while room for fiscal expansion is limited, it said. “Monetary loosening could prove counterproductive if it led to capital outflows, the likelihood of which will grow once U.S. policy rates increase and interest rate differentials with the U.S. narrow,” the World Bank said. “The scope for more public spending to boost short-term growth is limited.”

• International Container Cuts Spending as Global Growth Slows. International Container Terminal Services Inc. expects to spend only half of the $530 million it budgeted for this year as the Philippine port operator limits its expansion amid slowing global growth, Chairman and President Enrique Razon said. “The growth picture of the global economy is not looking too great,” Razon, 55, said in an interview Oct. 2 in Manila. Profit at the company has mainly been driven by acquiring new terminals rather than by organic growth, he said. The company, known as ICTSI, has built a portfolio of sea ports from Manila to Oregon to Ecuador as global trade boomed over the past decade, driven by China’s rapid growth. The trade picture has since dimmed, with the World Trade Organization recently cutting its forecast for global trade to 2.8 percent growth this year, from 3.3 percent previously.

• From Volkswagen to China: Risks That Might Derail German Growth. Europe’s economic powerhouse is facing a test of might. Germany’s trademark industrial prowess has been called into question by Volkswagen AG’s emission scandal, the slowdown in China and other emerging markets is threatening exports, and the influx of migrants is set to put a strain on the nation’s finances. This week, a smattering of economic data will give a hint on whether the largest economy in the euro area can sail through the headwinds that have accumulated in recent weeks or is at risk of running aground.

• VW Chief Warns Cheating Scandal May Threaten Company's Existence. Volkswagen AG’s designated Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch warned managers that the diesel-emissions scandal could pose “an existence-threatening crisis for the company,” as it pleaded for public trust with full-page ads in national newspapers. The German carmaker faces a Wednesday deadline to present a plan to fix some 2.8 million vehicles in its home market. Poetsch told managers last week he was certain the Wolfsburg, Germany-based carmaker will overcome the crisis with enough effort, according to Welt am Sonntag newspaper.

• Cameron Says He’d Back Britain’s Exit From EU If Reforms Not Won. Prime Minister David Cameron reiterated his promise to support Britain’s exit from the European Union if he doesn’t get the reforms he is seeking. “I’ve always said if I don’t get what I want I will rule nothing out,” Cameron told BBC Television’s “Andrew Marr Show” on Sunday, as his Conservative Party’s annual conference opened in Manchester, northwest England. “But I’m confident we will get what we want.” While gaining an unexpected majority in May’s election has strengthened Cameron’s hand, he still faces opposition from within Tory ranks on Britain’s membership in the EU, an issue that’s divided the party for decades. Cameron -- who’s seeking to keep Britain in the bloc in a referendum he’s promised by the end of 2017 -- is now facing calls from euro-skeptic backbenchers to spell out exactly which reforms he is seeking to secure in negotiations with fellow EU leaders.

• Norway's PM Warns Currency Instability Is a Threat to Economy. As the currency of one of the world’s richest nations becomes increasingly difficult to trade, the government is starting to worry about the economic fallout. Prime Minister Erna Solberg says the rapid weakening of Norway’s krone will only provide short-term relief to western Europe’s biggest oil producer. In the longer term, the loss of liquidity and increased volatility pose a threat to businesses struggling to plan investments. “It helps some of those industries that have been suffering a bit on competitiveness,” Solberg told Bloomberg on Saturday while attending a Nordic Council meeting outside Copenhagen. “But it’s not good for a country in the long run to have an unstable currency because you also need to be able to long-term plan when you are doing investments.” 

• Asian Stocks Gain as Weak U.S. Payrolls Bolster Case for Dovish Fed. Asian shares rose, with the regional benchmark index heading for its longest winning streak in almost three months, after a weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs report reduced the case for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index climbed 0.4 percent to 126.92 as of 9:01 a.m. in Tokyo, advancing for a fourth day.

• Saudi Aramco Cuts Crude Pricing to Asia, U.S. Amid Weak Demand. Saudi Arabia cut pricing for November oil sales to Asia and the U.S. as the world’s largest crude exporter seeks to keep its barrels competitive with rival suppliers amid sluggish demand. Saudi Arabian Oil Co. reduced its official selling price for Medium grade crude to Asia next month to a discount of $3.20 a barrel below the regional benchmark, compared with a $1.30 discount for October sales, the company said Sunday in an e-mailed statement. The discount for the Medium grade to Asia, the main market for Saudi crude, widened by the most since the state-owned company made a $2 a barrel cut in February 2012, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

• Gas Bears Bathing in Shale Glut Raise Net Short Bets to Record. Hedge funds raised bearish bets on U.S. natural gas to a record as warm weather threatened to crimp demand for the heating fuel this winter. Money managers boosted net-short positions in four U.S. gas contracts by 26 percent in the week ended Sept. 29, the most in U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data going back to 2010. Bullish speculators cut their long-only holdings to a record low. 

• Investors Are Asking Tough Questions About 'Yieldcos'. Concerns raised following years of capital influxes into energy. The website of SunEdison, the renewable energy company, is a virtual smorgasbord of sunshine and light. "Solar perfected," reads one slogan splashed across the page. "Welcome to the dawn of a new era in solar energy," reads another banner over a pink-hued sunset. While SunEdison's marketing materials are firmly in the clouds, its share price has sunk to earth. The company is one of a batch of energy firms that have spun off their completed projects to public equity investors through vehicles known as "yieldcos," only to see the share prices of those vehicles subsequently tank.

• America's Beaten-Down Factory Worker Is Getting Squeezed Again. The great recovery in U.S. manufacturing jobs -- a surprising five-year surge that blossomed in the aftermath of the financial crisis and added almost 900,000 people to payrolls across the country -- appears to be dead. Or at the very least, on hold. Factory employment fell by 27,000 in August and September, the worst back-to-back months since late 2009. To understand what’s behind those numbers, go right to the center of America’s heartland and take a look at a company nestled along the Illinois-Missouri border named Titan International Inc. It makes huge tires for tractors, backhoes and dump trucks, the kind of equipment that was in hot demand as the U.S. shale industry boomed and grain farmers flush with cash from soaring prices invested in new machinery.But with commodities now collapsing, the demand for earth-moving equipment -- and the tires they roll on -- is drying up.

Wall Street Journal: 

• Glencore Oil Deals Could Bite Banks. Slide in crude prices adds risk for lenders who financed ‘jumbo’ transactions with producers. A deal struck last year between Glencore PLC and the government of Chad sent $1.4 billion to the African country as an up-front payment for four years of oil shipments. Now, uncertainties over the transaction, which was financed by bank lending, and troubles with other similar deals are shedding light on how Glencore’s energy business has taken some banks into risky areas that are causing jitters as commodity prices fall.

• New Emerging-Market Woes. Companies’ U.S.-dollar debt could be hurt as commodities and currencies fall. One of the last havens in emerging markets is showing signs of strain. Companies in emerging markets issued trillions of dollars of foreign-currency bonds during the decadelong commodity boom, and took advantage of low interest rates in the developed world following the 2008 financial crisis. Now, many investors fear the commodity bust will lead to a rise in defaults that could deepen economic slumps in many of these nations. China’s Middle-Class Dreams in Peril. Smaller cities on the cusp of China’s transformation toward consumer-driven growth struggle to overcome ill effects previous economic model.

Fox News:

• At least 5 dead as torrential rain, floods pound East Coast. Saying the deadly flood waters in her state were at "a thousand-year level" -- and acknowledging that there was still 24 hours of rain to come -- Gov. Nikki Haley urged the residents of South Carolina to stay safe and strong during a Sunday afternoon press conference. Haley gave an accounting of just how devastating the storm has been: 30,000-plus sandbags used, 754 calls for assistance in a 12-hour period, 323 collisions, three fatalities. Nearly 600 National Guard troops had been activated, she said, with 1,300 more either on call or on standby. Rescue crews had 11 aircrafts, eight swiftwater rescue teams and 106 highwater vehicles at their disposal. More swiftwater teams were on their way from Tennessee, Haley said.

• Assad says Russia campaign must succeed in Syria. Syria's President Bashar Assad said in comments Sunday that the air campaign by Russia against "terrorists" in his country must succeed or the whole region will be destroyed, stressing that the fight against terrorism must precede a political process.

MarketWatch.com:

• U.S. system designed to prevent financial crisis ‘likely to fail,’ say experts. The current U.S.regulatory structure designed to prevent another financial crisis is “Balkanized,” a “mess” and likely to fail when needed, experts said. “The current U.S. institutional set-up is likely to fail in a crisis, and will be doing less to prevent a crisis than it should be,” said Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, at a two-day conference on financial stability sponsored by the Boston Federal Reserve.

CNBC:

• Emerging market turmoil flashes warning lights for global economy. Emerging economies risk "leading the world economy into a slump", with lower growth and a rout in financial markets, according to the latest Brookings Institution-Financial Times tracking index. Released ahead of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Lima, Peru, the index paints a much more pessimistic outlook than the fund is likely to predict later this week.

• Junk bond market like a 'slow-moving train wreck': Strategist. (video) Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has long warned about the dangers of the high-yield market. Now, those sentiments are being echoed by a top strategist at a major bank who called the market for riskier bonds a "slow-moving train wreck." In an interview on CNBC's "Fast Money," Michael Contopoulos, head of high-yield strategy at Bank of America, called high yield credit a "big, big problem," and laid out the reasons why a turn in the credit cycle is currently underway.

• Is there an earnings recession looming? Why one measure says yes. (video) With stocks already in a rough patch and Friday's jobs report creating new question about economic growth, a new concern is approaching for the market: third-quarter earnings season.

Zero Hedge:

• The American 'Recovery' In 1 Chart. (graph)

• The Perilous Misperception That Central Bankers Have Mitigated Market Risk.

• A Worrying Set Of Signals. (graph)

• China's President Confirms Practice Of Moving Official Reserve Assets To Other Entities In China.

• World's Largest Shipowners To Abandon Greece Ahead Of Major Tax Hike.

• Portugal's Ruling Coalition Prevails As Country Votes In What Amounts To Austerity Referendum.

• How Bad Can This Get, And How Fast?

• It's The Entrepreneur That Saves An Economy – Not The Fed.

• Gundlach Explains Why The Market Hasn't Crashed Yet: "People Are Holding And Hoping".

• 10 Reasons Why JPMorgan Is Apocalyptic On The LNG Market.

Business Insider:

• There's a new, emerging threat to Obamacare — and it's coming from Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

• UK foreign minister: Putin's Syria play 'looks like a classic bit of Russian asymmetric warfare'.

• Four California high-school students were arrested for plotting a mass shooting.

• 'This is a major world event': The Syrian war is now fueling a 'global cold war'.

• Market history is calling, and it's saying stock performance will be crappy for another ~10 years. (graph)

• Germany is facing a logistical nightmare amid the refugee crisis.

Nasdaq:

• PotashCorp(POT) Says Withdraws K+S Proposal. Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (POT, POT.TO) said Sunday that it has withdrawn its proposal to negotiate a transaction with K+S Aktiengesellschaft.

Reuters:

• U.S. hedge funds brace for worst year since financial crisis. U.S. hedge funds are bracing for their worst year since the 2008 financial crisis after a dramatic sell-off in healthcare and biotechnology stocks triggered double-digit losses for some prominent players last month. September's sucker punch in the biotech sector, on top of a grim August when global markets tumbled due to fears about slowing growth in China, have pushed many hedge fund managers deep into the red. "These are some of the worst numbers we have seen since the crisis," said Sam Abbas, whose Symmetric IO tracks hedge fund managers' returns. The average hedge fund lost 19 percent in 2008 when the credit crunch hit.

USA Today

• Ben Bernanke: More execs should have gone to jail for causing Great Recession.

Telegraph:

• What are we to make of the commodity price meltdown? The ramifications of the turmoil in commodity markets are difficult to determine, says Roger Bootle. 

• European Central Bank sued by 200 investors over Greek debt deal. Central bank accused of violating its creditor status in case which opens door to host of legal action. 

Night Trading

• Asian indices are +.75% to +1.50% on average.

• Asia Ex-Japan Investment Grade CDS Index 156.5 -3.25 basis points.

• Asia Pacific Sovereign CDS Index 90.25 +.25 basis point.

• S&P 500 futures -.21%.

• NASDAQ 100 futures -.08%.

Morning Preview Links

Earnings of Note

Company/Estimate 

• (TCS)/.-07

Economic Releases
9:45 am EST

• Final Markit US Services PMI for September is estimated at 55.6 versus 55.6 in August.

10:00 am EST

• ISM Non-Manufacturing for September is estimated to fall to 57.5 versus 59.0 in August.

• The Labor Market Conditions Index for September is estimated to fall to 1.4 versus 2.1 in August.

Upcoming Splits

• None of note

Other Potential Market Movers

• The Eurozone PMI report and the Australia Trade Balance could also impact trading today.

BOTTOM LINE: Asian indices are higher, boosted by commodity and industrial shares in the region. I expect US stocks to open modestly lower and to strengthen into the afternoon, finishing mixed. The Portfolio is 50% net long heading into the week.

Weekly Outlook

Week Ahead by Bloomberg. 

Wall St. Week Ahead by Reuters.

Weekly Economic Calendar by Briefing.com.

BOTTOM LINE: I expect US stocks to finish the week mixed as commodity weakness, rising European/Emerging Markets/US High-Yield debt angst and earnings outlook concerns offset short-covering, bargain-hunting and central bank hopes. My intermediate-term trading indicators are giving neutral signals and the Portfolio is 50% net long heading into the week.

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:   

• Gulf Widens Between Fed Forecasts and Signal From Futures Market (graph) The bond market’s doubts about the Federal Reserve’s projections for interest rates are only growing. After Friday’s weaker-than-forecast U.S. September jobs report, traders are betting the Fed will wait until at least March before lifting its benchmark rate from near zero. What’s more, they don’t fully price in another hike until early 2017. That contrasts with the central bank’s forecast, published just over two weeks ago, that the target would reach 1.375 percent by the end of 2016.

• Credit Investors Bolt Party as Economy Fears Trump Low Rates. Debt investors are a nervous lot these days, and new signs that global turmoil is weighing on the U.S. economic outlook are only adding to their angst. Measures of corporate credit risk spiked immediately after a Labor Department report showed that payrolls rose less than projected last month, wages stagnated and the jobless rate was unchanged. Investors are now demanding more than they have in three years to own junk bonds, which are on track to cap off their worst week this year. Frustration is growing that even after seven years of easy-money policies, economic growth remains sluggish. While the Federal Reserve is signaling that it’s in no hurry to normalize interest rates, investors are increasingly worried about what the data will mean for earnings at companies that have sold $9.3 trillion of corporate bonds since the start of 2009. “At some point the financial markets say, ‘Enough about monetary stimulus, we need real growth,’” said Jack McIntyre, who helps oversee $54 billion at Brandywine Global Investment Management LLC in Philadelphia. “Bad things happen in a low-growth environment. There’s more risk, more potholes.”

• Exxon(XOM), Chevron(CVX) Outlooks Revised Lower by S&P in Oil Slump. Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. were among several U.S. oil and natural gas producers that had their outlooks or ratings cut by Standard & Poor’s as the industry suffers from weak crude prices, hurting their cash flow and liquidity. S&P cut ratings for Chesapeake Energy Corp.(CHK), Denbury Resources(DNR) and Whiting Petroleum Corp.(WLL), while giving Exxon and Chevron "negative" outlooks, the ratings agency said today in a statement. Exxon “has substantially more debt than during the last cyclical commodity price trough in 2009, while upstream production and costs are at similar levels,” S&P analysts Thomas Watters and Carin Dehne-Kiley said. “Most rating actions reflect lower credit-protection measures, negative cash flow, and uncertainty about liquidity over the next 12 months,” S&P said in the statement. 

• Oil Bulls Lose Faith in Recovery as Russia Adds to Global Glut. Hedge funds trimmed bullish oil bets for the first time in six weeks, losing faith in a swift recovery as Russia boosted output to the highest since the Soviet Union collapsed. Speculators reduced their net-long position in West Texas Intermediate crude by 9.1 percent in the week ended Sept. 29, according to data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Longs dropped from a 12-week high while shorts increased. U.S. crude output is down 514,000 barrels a day from a four-decade high reached in June, Energy Information Administration data show. The number of rigs targeting oil in the U.S. dropped to a five year low, Baker Hughes Inc. said Oct. 2. WTI traded in the tightest range since June last month as China’s slowing economy and the highest Russian output in two decades signaled the global glut will linger. "The U.S. producers are the only ones doing their part to reduce the global glut," John Kilduff, a partner at Again Capital LLC, a New York-based hedge fund, said by phone. "Other countries, such as Russia, are pumping at full tilt. The cutbacks by shale producers here aren’t going to have much impact, especially given the slowing global economy."

• Oil Bust Hits the Sand Industry. (video)

Wall Street Journal: 

• Cameron Adds to Criticism of Russian Airstrikes in Syria. Moscow’s intervention is helping the ‘butcher’ President Assad, says U.K. Prime Minister. U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron added his voice on Saturday to criticism of Russia’s military action in Syria, as Russian warplanes continued to carry out airstrikes in the war-torn country.

• Iran Expands Role in Syria in Conjunction With Russia’s Airstrikes. Decision said to have been made to add fighters through local and foreign proxies. Iran is expanding its already sizable role in Syria’s multisided war in the wake of Russia’s airstrikes, despite the risk of antagonizing the U.S. and its Persian Gulf allies who want to push aside President Bashar al-Assad.

• The Big Jobs Miss. The hiring slowdown has now stretched into three months. The labor market is supposed to be the strong point of this underwhelming U.S. economic recovery, so Friday’s weak jobs report for September came as a jolt to investors and perhaps to the Federal Reserve. The question is whether this is another slow patch of the kind we’ve seen so often during this expansion, or a signal of something worse.

Barron's:

• Had bullish comments on (THC), (RL) and (FLWS).

• Had bearish comments on (TSRA).

MarketWatch.com:

• Oil’s slump played havoc in U.S. junk-bond market in September. One measure of stress is at five-year high, and default rate is rising.

Fox News:

• US officials investigate airstrike in Afghanistan that killed at least 19 at Doctors Without Borders hospital. (video) U.S. officials have launched an investigation after 12 local staff members of Doctors Without Borders and at least seven patients, three of them children, were killed after an explosion near their hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz that may have been caused by a nearby airstrike. In a statement, the international charity said the "sustained bombing" took place Saturday at 2:10 a.m local time. Afghan forces backed by U.S. airstrikes have been fighting to dislodge Taliban insurgents who overran Kunduz on Monday. At least 37 other people were seriously injured--19 staff members and 18 patients and caretakers, the organization said. Dozens were missing, raising concerns the death toll could rise. A senior defense official told Fox News on Saturday that the Taliban have been in control of the area around the hospital since Monday, guarding the building and drawing U.S. special operations forces into a firefight in the area. U.S. forces called in the airstrike because they were under fire and needed cover, the official said. Taliban fighters were among those being treated at the hospital, a defense official told Fox News.

Zero Hedge:

• The Largest US Foreign Policy Blunder Since Vietnam Is Complete: Iran Readies Massive Syrian Ground Invasion. It would be difficult to overstate the significance of what appears to be going on here. This is nothing short of a Middle Eastern coup, as Iran looks to displace Saudi Arabia as the regional power broker and as Russia looks to supplant the US as the superpower puppet master.  

• The Unwind Of QE Means The "S&P Should Be Trading At Half Of Its Value", Deutsche Bank Warns.

• Global Dollar Funding Shortage Intesifies To Worst Level Since 2012.

• "How Will The Public Receive News Of More QE, NIRP, Cash Bans And Capital Controls?" (graph)

• Stock Market Reaches Key Post-Crash Milestone. (graph)

• "They Just Don't Want A Job" - The Fed's Grotesque "Explanation" Why 94.6 Million Are Out Of The Labor Force. (graph)

• Australia Is "Going Down Under": "The Bubble Is About To Burst", RBS Warns.

• Meet Seth Carpenter - Janet Yellen's Choice Of "Fed Leak" Scapegoat.

• The Reality Behind The Numbers In China's Boom-Bust Economy.

• US Foreign Policy Explained. (cartoon)

• Weekend Reading: Capacious Cognitions. (graph)

• Chinese Cash Flow Shocker: More Than Half Of Commodity Companies Can't Pay The Interest On Their Debt. (graph)

• The Farce Is Complete: Stocks Soar Most In 4 Years As US Job Market Disintegrates. (graph)

Business Insider:

• GUNDLACH: 'There's going to be another wave down'. DoubleLine Capital cofounder Jeffrey Gundlach, widely followed for his investment calls, warned after a weak nonfarm payrolls report Friday that the US equity market as well as other risk markets, including high-yield "junk" bonds, face another round of selling pressure. "The reason the markets aren't going lower is people are holding and hoping," Gundlach told Reuters in a telephone interview. "The market bottoms out when people are selling and sold out — not when they are holding and hoping. I don't think you've seen real selling in risk assets broadly. Markets need buying to go up and they need volume to go up. They can fall just on gravity."

• 9 charts that show the euro isn't working. (graph)

• CHANOS: SolarCity's(SCTY) new, world's most efficient solar panel 'sounds nice until ...'

• Iran-backed Iraqi militias are pouring into Syria.

• 4.6 million clients may have been affected by a cyberattack on Scottrade.

• The Middle East is angry and bewildered by US inaction in Syria.

• Russia claims Air Force made over 20 flights in Syria in past 24 hours.

• A firefighters union just abandoned plans to endorse Hillary Clinton for president.

• 'There are some wicked winds swirling around' the market.

Reuters:

• Global commodity price slump sends ripples around the world. In the boom times when the price of gold was soaring, Ebenezer Sam-Onuawonto had a dream job and a dollar salary many times the national average in this mining town in southwestern Ghana. When the price fell, he lost his job as human resources chief at a mining company that closed its local operations and could only find work in a construction firm in another city, far from the house he built in Tarkwa for his wife and six children. "I hardly see my kids now," said Sam-Onuawonto, his life changed as a result of a slump in global commodity prices whose impact is being felt around the world on currencies, companies, consumers, national economies and - potentially - governments.

• U.S. a long way from 'macroprudential' safeguards -Fed's Dudley. The United States is a long way from putting in place rules that will protect the financial system and the economy from broad risks, due in part to regulatory structure and to the difficulties of predicting the next crisis, a top Federal Reserve official said on Saturday.

Telegraph:

• Central banks and credit bubbles are to blame for the death of the Glencore dream. Glencore rode a wave of cheap central bank money, and with the Chinese slowdown, is now paying the price.

Market Week in Review

• S&P 500 1,951.36 +1.04%*

The Weekly Wrap by Briefing.com.

*5-Day Change