Quick Overview

• Investors question whether international efforts to halt a full-blown Eurozone debt crisis are enough.

• The new Basel III banking rules will leave the biggest U.S. banks short of between $100 billion and $150 billion in equity capital, with 90 per cent of the shortfall concentrated in the top six banks, the Financial Times said.

• Singaporeans are the most optimistic consumers in the region, according to the latest Asian Consumer Confidence Index. The index rose 11 points to 137 in Q3.

• Soybeans rose on dry weather in parts of Brazil.

• Precious metals will produce the best commodity returns next year, Goldman Sachs said.

• (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire Warren Buffett said that rich people should pay more in taxes and that Bush-era tax cuts for top earners should be allowed to expire at the end of December.