International Monetary Fund had predicted that China’s economy would grow by 6.6% in 2016. And the economists polled by Reuters had anticipated a growth rate of 6.6 percent. But China’s economy narrowly beat estimates with a 6.7 percent expansion on-year in the three months through June, as a string of stimulus measures from the government and the central bank ...

  A top Bavarian domestic intelligence official has made tabloid headlines by saying there are “hit squads” and “sleeper cells” among the refugees who have recently arrived in Germany — something right-wing populists have been maintaining all along. Yet the true “sleeper cells” have been here for decades, and that explains why, as Germany and other European countries step up ...

  Nir Kaissar There’s a strange disconnect today between some investors’ trepidation about US stocks and the soothing signals coming from the equity market. As my Bloomberg colleague Barry Ritholtz recently noted, a whole bunch of high-profile money mavens — Stan Druckenmiller, George Soros and Bill Gross included — are kvetching about the dangers lurking in U.S. shares (among other ...