BIZARRE: Suzuki person - You Need To See This

Who will teams fighting for a playoff spot depend on in the season’s final month?

Post-war Japan was home to exciting new theatrical forms. These included the often grotesque and contorted, but at times flowing, dance style “butoh”, created by dancer/choreographer Hijikata Tatsumi – and the intensely focused, sometimes militaristic, sometimes dreamy theatre of Suzuki Tadashi.

The dollar index (DXY00 ) this morning is down by -0.10%. Strength in stocks today has curbed liquidity demand for the dollar. Today’s US economic news was mixed for the dollar after capital goods orders rose more than expected, but consumer confidence unexpectedly declined. US Feb capital goods new orders...

Japan's Finance Minister Suzuki cautions against setting new fiscal targets amidst economic challenges and rising debt levels.

The shrinking town of Kainan in Wakayama prefecture is offering money to people to relocate there – but there’s a catch

The dollar index (DXY00 ) on Thursday fell by -0.40%. The dollar came under pressure Thursday from weaker-than-expected U.S. economic reports on Q2 GDP and Aug pending home sales. Losses in the dollar accelerated on dovish comments from Chicago Fed President Goolsbee, who warned that policymakers were at risk of...

What you need to know… The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.19%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.23%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.05%. Stocks this morning are modestly higher. Stocks are wavering...

Revival of Puccini classic seeks to be ‘both true to the spirit of the original and authentic in its representation’