A blind spider creeping through America’s judicial thicket might be heading to the Supreme Court, which will have to decide if the contentment or even the survival of the Bone Cave Harvestman spider species, which lives only in two central Texas counties, is any of the federal government’s business. If it is, what isn’t? The US Fish and Wildlife Service …

Reuters Egypt’s stock market tumbled in heavy trade on Monday after the central bank unexpectedly raised key interest rates overnight, while Qatar outperformed in an otherwise quiet Gulf. Cairo’s blue-chip index dropped 2.5 percent after the central bank hiked its overnight deposit rate and overnight lending rate by two percentage points — its first increase since a hike of three …

Bloomberg US stocks advanced for a third day as crude pushed above $50 a barrel before OPEC meets this week. The euro advanced after Angela Merkel said the “too weak” currency shared the blame for Germany’s trade surplus. The S&P 500 Index’s three-day climb topped 1 percent following its biggest selloff of the year as investors focused on corporate deals. …