News Today - Aug 18

* U.S. stocks and commodities sell off, rekindling familiar fears that market is leading indicator.

* Crude futures follow stocks lower as tumbling stocks pressure futures to a more than 2% fall, Gold slides about 1.5%

* Japan’s 3.7 percent economic expansion last quarter ended the country’s worst postwar recession.

*German investor confidence probably rose to the highest level in more than three years in August after Europe’s largest economy unexpectedly emerged from recession in the second quarter, a survey of economists shows.

* This Economic Recovery Is On Such Shaky Ground