AFP - World finance chiefs warned on Saturday runaway oil prices could imperil global economic growth, calling on producers to open up the taps and tasking the IMF to investigate wild market swings.

Reuters - The world's richest nations warned on Saturday soaring commodity prices may slice into economic growth, but shrank from offering any plan to calm markets or quell protests over the cost of fuel and food.

AP - Japanese stocks rose Friday as investors scooped up bank and export-linked shares that had been beaten down much of the week.

AFP - World finance chiefs warned Saturday runaway oil prices could imperil global economic growth, calling on producers to open the taps and for a probe into market swings.

Reuters - Finance ministers from the world's richest nations warned on Saturday surging commodity prices threatened economic growth, but shrank from any talk of new controls on volatile oil and currency markets.

Reuters - Between chewing sauce-slathered ribs and corn on the cob, the neighbors and relatives of Wall Street's top prognosticators had one thing on their mind this past Memorial Day: gasoline prices.

Reuters - Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Friday the Fed will have to tighten monetary policy to put a brake on inflation, adding that the worst of the credit crisis may have passed.

Reuters - When Yahoo Inc turned down the latest offer from Microsoft Corp this week, it walked away from $9 billion in cash and $1 billion a year in additional operating profit, Microsoft said on Friday.

AFP - Swiss bank UBS, dramatically hit by the US home-loan crisis, said on Friday it had "successfully" raised almost 16 billion Swiss francs (9.9 billion euros, 15.3 billion dollars) from shareholders through an issue of new stock.

Reuters - Shares of Yahoo dropped more than 8 percent on Thursday after the Wall Street Journal reported that negotiations between the Internet media company and Microsoft Corp ended without reaching a deal .

AFP - Spain's Economy Minister Pedro Solbes said Friday the country's once-buoyant economy was experiencing an "abrupt adjustment" but denied it was in "crisis."

Reuters - The weak U.S. dollar and oil speculators took centre stage as Group of Eight finance ministers gathered in Japan on Friday to grapple with surging inflation and a slowing global economy.