Stocks flirt with longest losing run since 2011 as $100 oil looms

With European stocks in and out of the red and U.S. S&P 500 futures barely budged, MSCI’s main global equities index which tracks 47 countries was in danger of a 10th straight daily fall, a losing streak not seen since 2011. MSCI’s index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan had ended near a 10-month trough, while Japan’s Nikkei fell 1.5% as investors there readied for the end of the quarter and offloaded stocks that went ex-dividend.