Benchmark index plummets as much as 12.2 percent, eclipsing single-day plunge after 9/11 attacks in 2001. Source: aljazeera.com

Denmark’s economy is poised to expand at the fastest pace in the Nordic region this year, even as pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk A/S grapples with slowing sales, according to the country’s largest lender. Source: bloomberg.com

Sustained high oil prices would boost inflation and slow growth, putting central banks in a tough spot. Source: bloomberg.com

Australia’s economy grew at a brisk pace in the final three months of last year driven by government and household spending, keeping a back-to-back Reserve Bank interest-rate hike firmly in play. Source: bloomberg.com

The historian says the worst traits of America’s Gilded Age are back Source: economist.com

China’s breakneck economic growth – which lifted incomes at home and reshaped markets abroad – once seemed as inevitable as a law of nature. Source: bloomberg.com