Disaster

A meteorite is believed to to have killed a bus driver and injured three others in southern India. If confirmed it would be the first recorded human fatality from a piece of space rock. The meteorite crashed into the gardens of a private engineering college on Saturday. ars technica reports: According to local reports, a bus driver was killed on Saturday when a meteorite landed in the area where he was walking, damaging the window panes of nearby buses and buildings. Three other people were injured.

Syrian forces with support from their allies are creating a humanitarian crisis along the Syrian Turkish border with 110,000 refugees headed toward Turkey to escape fighting in western Aleppo, in northern Syria. Syrian government troops are within a few miles of encircling and cutting off Aleppo in a move that the locals fear can lead to siege and starvation.

While there are numerous financial institutions in the world that are full of hidden NPLs and over-leveraged, trading at extreme levels of risk, the FSA's "Too-Interconnected-To-Fail" list of systemically critical banks is where global investors' attention is really focused.

BMO Capital Markets breaks down the world's most systemically critical financial institutions using their own "special sauce" of CDS levels, CDS term structure, equity price, liquidity, and spread trends.

Just as the S&P turned red, and oil crossed back into negative territory, this happens...

With the dollar tumbling and Dudley and Kuroda exposed as impotent, investors are rotating to the safety of not Biotechs but Bullion and Bonds. Gold just pushed above $1135 to 3-month highs, breaking above its crucial 200-day moving-average...

But will this break hold?