AP - Stocks finished another volatile session narrowly mixed Friday, as gains in the energy, utilities and materials sectors offset some of Wall Street's angst over the fate of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

Reuters - U.S. securities regulators plan to take action on abusive short selling of stock before the end of the week, a source briefed on the matter said on Monday.

Reuters - Ten of the world's biggest banks on Sunday committed to establish a $70 billion borrowing facility to bolster worldwide liquidity and reduce volatility in what they called an "extraordinary market environment."

Reuters - Insurer American International Group Inc , working to stave off rating downgrades and shore up the capital of its holding company, has made an unprecedented approach to the Federal Reserve seeking $40 billion in short-term financing, the New York Times said.

Reuters - Bank of America Corp said it agreed to buy Merrill Lynch & Co Inc in an all-stock deal worth $50 billion, snagging the world's largest retail brokerage after one of the worst-ever weekends on Wall Street.

Reuters - Global financial markets were shaken to their core on Monday after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection and Merrill Lynch agreed to be taken over as a deepening crisis took new, bigger victims.

Reuters - U.S. oil prices dropped more than $2 to a six-month low below $99 a barrel on Sunday as dealers bet on a swift recovery of the nation's energy production after Hurricane Ike and the U.S. government loaned emergency oil to two refiners.

Reuters - Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Sunday said he suspected "we will see other major financial firms fail," but it did not need to be a problem.

Reuters - The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to leave benchmark lending rates unchanged at its policy meeting on Tuesday and will probably signal that borrowing costs will stay steady for several months.

Reuters - Regulators and bankers resumed a third day of talks on Sunday in a desperate attempt to reach a deal to sell Lehman Brothers and prevent the struggling investment bank from flooding jittery financial markets with toxic assets at fire sale prices.

Reuters - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called airline unions to emergency talks on Saturday evening in a last-ditch effort to save national flag carrier Alitalia from collapse.

Reuters - Regulators and bankers failed on Saturday to reach a deal to end the crisis at investment bank Lehman Brothers , and emergency talks were extended to a third day as authorities seek to calm jittery financial markets.

Reuters - Securities regulators have opened a preliminary investigation into UAL Corp's stock drop after an outdated story about its bankruptcy was treated as current, breaking news, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal.

Reuters - Italian flag carrier Alitalia may start cancelling flights from Monday as it is having problems buying fuel and could lose its operating license if it fails to seal a deal with unions to avoid total collapse.

Reuters - Airbus parent EADS denied on Saturday it was thinking of abandoning efforts to supply air tankers to the United States after a German weekly reported it was threatening to walk away from the fraught tender process.