Vanderbilt’s chancellor gives us hope.

There’s plenty of waste and fraud to expose, but this seems like another example of duplicating government efforts.

Stock futures held steady with producer-price data in focus after the CPI eased to a new three-year low a day earlier.

The euro could fall if the ECB prompts bets on further rate cuts as soon as October, following a widely expected 25 basis-point deposit rate cut on Thursday, Commerzbank said.

A rapid slowdown in Chinese oil-demand growth is driving down global consumption, reinforcing expectations that demand will peak by the end of the decade, the IEA said.

Oil rose after Hurricane Francine moved through key production areas in the Gulf of Mexico, causing producers to shut a fourth of their operations in the region that produces around 15%-17% of total U.S. output, but Swissquote Bank said it was far from enough to push prices sustainably higher.