Unnerving statistics: Causes for concern from Q3

Morningstar's markets editor Jeremy Glaser highlights some unnerving data from the third quarter as we move into the final two months of the year.

The third quarter of 2012 might have been less scary than in years past, but there was still plenty of bad news in the marketplace. Every quarter, I take a look at some numbers that jumped out at me. Here are some notable ones for the most recent three-month period: 0 Euros worth of bonds purchased under the ECB's new Outright Monetary Transaction plan that is meant to support bond yields of indebted countries. The ECB cannot act to bring down Spain's borrowing costs until the Spanish government formally agrees to a bailout from the European Commission, something Spain has been pus...