Organised crime syndicates are slaughtering between 1,500 and 1,800 elephants a year in Mozambique for ivory

Elephant killings in Mozambique happening on ‘industrialised’ scale | Environment | The Guardian

Investors do not believe in this market the way they used to at these lofty levels ... but they still feel like they have to stay in the market until it actually begins to roll over in a more significant way. Therefore, they are buying the higher quality names ... and those names are easier to get out of (more liquid) once they decide to sell.

A Diagnosis for the Small-Cap Stock Sell-Off - Bloomberg

Mapp Biopharmaceutical, the San Diego company that developed ZMapp, is also in a way a White House project. It’s supported exclusively through federal grants and contracts that go back to 2005... The technology for antibody cocktails such as ZMapp has “been around for a few decades,” says Robert Garry, a professor of microbiology at Tulane University.

Ebola Drug ZMapp's Development Delayed by Pentagon Agency - Businessweek

China's "no stimulus" pledge and falling commodity prices are sending US inflation expectations to multi-year lows. Below is the 5-year inflation expectation indicator (breakeven) implied by inflation-linked treasuries (TIPS).

Inflation Expectations Breakeven Rates - Business Insider

The dollar has been on a tear, to me that is the number one story for the investment markets of the late summer, early fall… at the end of the day the effect that it has on the equity markets is really interesting

Dollar power is a problem for stocks: Josh Brown - Yahoo Finance

For example, the three sectors that have the highest percentage of stocks below their 200-day moving average, they are the three sectors that are most susceptible to a stronger dollar.

Dollar power is a problem for stocks: Josh Brown - Yahoo Finance

Investors have largely factored in more share-buying by the nation’s $1.2 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund and further fiscal and monetary stimulus to counter the deepest economic contraction in five years, Kathy Matsui, chief Japan strategist at the brokerage, said in an interview in Tokyo on Sept. 19. Goldman Sachs cut Japanese equities to underweight for the next three months on Sept. 5, projecting the Topix index will slide 5.7 percent from yesterday’s close in the period.

Goldman Sees Japan Stocks Dropping as Abe Runs Out of Tools - Bloomberg