The ECB meets tomorrow and is expected to remain on hold.  Of the 44 market participants surveyed by Bloomberg, only one thought that the ECB would lower interest rates at this week’s meeting.  Marke…

Over the past year, Europe has enjoyed calm financial markets.  At the core of the market’s comfort were two assumptions about policy. First, that the European governments would do just enough to kee…

Ah, Vegas in August. 100-degree heat, pool parties, and thousands upon thousands of hackers. Every summer the cybersecurity world takes over Sin City for a week. Black Hat, growing ever more corporat…

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents usher Fabio Ochoa, Colombian drug kingpin, to an awaiting vehicle following his extradition from Colombia to Florida, September 8, 2001(Courtesy Reuters). …