Morning Scan: Tributes to Game Theory Pioneer John Nash; Bank Stocks...

Receiving Wide Coverage ... A Beautiful Mind: Tributes to John Nash were plentiful after the mathematician made famous by his depiction in the film "A Beautiful Mind" was killed in an taxi accident this weekend. Nash's doctoral thesis placed game theory, the study of strategic interactions, at the heart of economics, the Financial Times said. After Nash's insights, "economists stopped thinking exclusively about unrealistic models of perfectly competitive markets and began focusing on cases in whichÂ...