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Oil prices fell. But investors also saw opportunity, moving fast and early to snap up some bargains.

The latest session saw the main index in Shanghai dive by a further 8.5%, deepening its recent heavy slump and meaning it has lost all its gains for 2015.

The TOPIX index of all First Section issues ended down 92.14 points, or 5.86 percent, at 1,480.87, the lowest level since February 17.

By increasing demand for them, the government hopes prices will rise. As the slide highlighted on Monday, those efforts have not been a success.

The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 8.5 percent, its biggest one-day loss since February 2007.

Yet those gains would come at the expense of manufacturers in other countries, including the United States and Europe.

As the selling accelerated, some benchmark indexes were at or near 10 per cent below their recent peaks – a “correction” in Wall Street parlance.

Hong Kong fell 1.53 per cent, or 347.85 points, to finish the day at 22,409.62 – its lowest point since May 2014 – taking it into a bear market after a more than 20 per cent slump from its April peak. The Nikkei 225 index ended day down 0.9% at 20,033.52 points....

Oil has dropped below $40 a barrel for the first time since the end of the global economic crisis.

As if China wasn’t worrying investors enough, the odds of a Fed rate hike in September seems to have lowered. “This is about growth“. The Nasdaq crumbled 6.8% while the S&P 500 sank 5.8%.

Behind that were signs Beijing is struggling to prevent a stall in the world’s second largest economy, and that its actions, like the devaluation of the Yuan last week, was having a negative impact throughout emerging markets and would drag in developed economies as well.

Manufacturing unit manufacturing on the earth’s second-largest financial system shrank at its quickest price this month in greater than six years, fueling considerations that China’s sudden slowing could have far-reaching results across the globe. The new bout of...

Relatively few Chinese are invested in the stock market, and the vast majority of Chinese companies still have access to financing.

A private factory gauge unexpectedly fell to the lowest level in more than six years, data Friday showed. At the same time, policy makers also expressed concerns that given recent drops in commodity prices inflation is still too low to justify an interest rate increase.

Shane Lowry began daydreaming Sunday morning about lifting the Bridgestone Invitational trophy on the 18th green, then he quickly returned to reality because he knew there was a long day ahead with world-class players all around.