Reuters - Commerzbank outlined its plans to cut 9,000 jobs and shrink investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort to a rump after buying Dresdner Bank, but investors were unhappy about the $14.5 billion deal.

Reuters - Energy companies waited anxiously on Monday as Hurricane Gustav lurched across the nation's largest concentration of oil platforms and refineries in the biggest threat to fuel supplies since 2005.

Reuters - Commerzbank plans to cut almost 2 billion euros ($3 billion) in costs by slashing 9,000 jobs and shrinking investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort after buying Dresdner Bank, but investors appeared unconvinced by the deal.

Reuters - Financial markets began the month pressured on all sides on Monday with Hurricane Gustav lifting the price of oil, economic fear driving equities lower and gloom about Britain's downturn knocking sterling to a 12-year low.

Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings has intensified talks with Korea Development Bank (KDB) to raise as much as $6 billion in a share sale that could be concluded this week, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

Reuters - Oil prices rose more than $1 on Monday after energy firms in the U.S. Gulf shut down nearly all offshore oil output and a host of flood-prone coastal refineries ahead of Hurricane Gustav, the biggest threat since 2005's devastating Katrina.

Reuters - U.S. energy companies shut nearly all offshore Gulf oil and gas production and raced to bring down flood-prone Louisiana refineries on Sunday ahead of Hurricane Gustav, which threatens to rival the wrath of 2005's Katrina.

Reuters - Consumer electronic makers are bracing themselves for slower growth in the second half of this year and in 2009, but count on consumers turning to home entertainment amid tougher economic times and tighter budgets.

Reuters - COMMERZBANK AG says pays approximately 8.8 billion euros for Dresdner Bank, around 5 billion euros in expected synergies

Reuters - U.S. energy companies shut nearly all offshore oil production and were racing to bring down flood-prone Louisiana refineries on Sunday ahead of Hurricane Gustav's landfall, which could rival the wrath of 2005's Hurricane Katrina.

Reuters - Oil and natural gas companies shut down production across the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday to prepare for the worst hurricane to hit the U.S. oilpatch since 2005, as coastal refineries braced for possible floods.