Investorsâ Fears on Commodities Add to Pressure on Share Prices
A confluence of factors, including Chinaâs slowing growth, falling commodity prices and trouble in the biotech sector, sent the markets lower.
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A confluence of factors, including Chinaâs slowing growth, falling commodity prices and trouble in the biotech sector, sent the markets lower.
Presidents Obama and Vladimir V. Putin clashed at the United Nations, each trying to maneuver the other into shifting his position on the Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad.
The case of the hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein has elicited warnings of a panic that could lead to the next financial crisis.
Elevator Repair Service takes on a script that appears to pose seemingly insurmountable difficulties for a stage director.
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Lin-Manuel Miranda are among 24 new MacArthur Foundation fellows receiving $625,000 over five years â no strings attached.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 23, 2015, covering September 29, 2015.
The Weeknd
Five Finger Death Punch
Travis Scott
Iron Maiden
Troye Sivan

2015Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (born 1932)[â ]
Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was a Saudi Arabian businessman and politician. A member of the House of Saud, he became a close ally of King Abdullah. In different periods Prince Nawwaf held significant government posts, including the director of Saudi intelligence agency.
2015Hellmuth Karasek, Czech-German journalist, author, and critic (born 1934)[â ]
Hellmuth Karasek was a German journalist, literary critic, novelist, and the author of many books on literature and film. He was one of Germany's best-known feuilletonists.
2015Phil Woods, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1931)[â ]
Philip Wells Woods was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, and composer.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]