Japan’s government warned Sunday that the number of people dead or missing as a result of Japan’s quake and tsunami nine days ago exceeded 20,000, and reports say that officials from Tokyo Electric Power Co. have the cooling functions at two of its crippled nuclear reactors up and running again.
Economic data to be released this week include key reports on manufacturing, housing and the consumer and may shed light on why growth keeps struggling, economists said.
A day after a three-mile-long sheen was spotted off the Louisiana Coast in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Coast Guard is collecting samples to determine if it’s oil.
An “all-weather” strategy that protects against predictable economic events as well as rare ones should give an investor courage. Here are five investment steps that advisers say should be part of every investor’s “Black Swan survival kit:”