Quick Overview

• YoY India’s wholesale-price index rose 8.66% in April

• Japanese core machinery order rose 2.9% in March.

• Voters in the Swiss region of Zurich, which has become known as a hub for "death tourism", have voted against restrictions being placed on assisted suicides.

• [AP] - Toxic bean sprouts, filthy cooking oil, drug-tainted pork: The relentless headlines in Chinese media have churned up queasy feelings for months about the dangers lurking in the nation's dinner bowls.

• (Bloomberg) -- Sales of gold coins are on track for the best month in a year amid the worst commodities rout since 2008, a sign that bullion’s longest bull market in nine decades has further to run, if history is a guide.

• The  New York FED's general economic index fell to 11.9 from a one-year high of 21.7 in April

• (Bloomberg) -- Farmers in France, the European Union’s largest producer of wheat, barley and sugar beets, faced more restrictions on water use amid a worsening drought, with no sign of relief in the next few weeks.