AP - World stock markets swooned again Tuesday as global financial crisis make investors worry that asset prices had yet to hit rock bottom.

AFP - European equities edged higher Thursday after British bank Lloyds TSB agreed a takeover deal for rival HBOS, and as investors grappled with a major central bank plan to boost liquidity.

AP - The world's major central banks banded together on Thursday to inject as much as $180 billion into money markets in a bid to stave off the growing global financial crisis.

AP - European stocks halted three days of losses in early afternoon trading Thursday, rising slightly after a concerted effort by central banks to pump billions more U.S. dollars into troubled money markets and limit the global financial crisis. Asian markets fell.

AP - The world's major central banks banded together on Thursday to inject as much as $180 billion into money markets in a bid to stave off the growing global financial crisis.

AFP - A rally on global stock markets fizzled out tamely Thursday as nervous investors took quick profits on gains made after unprecedented joint central bank action to ease the global credit crunch.

AP - The Kremlin is in crisis mode, pledging a $20 billion boost Thursday to shore up Russia's battered markets as it seeks to ward off a financial crash and restore confidence in its fragile banking sector.

AFP - Global stock markets hit fresh trouble Wednesday after the unprecedented US government bailout of giant insurer AIG failed to calm jitters and instead prompted a frenzy for safe haven assets.

AP - As Lehman Brothers secured court approval to begin the sale of key North American units to Barclays bank, its negotiators out of court neared a deal to sell parts of the business Barclays had not yet claimed, starting with its prized money management business.

AFP - Shares in the top home-loan lender HBOS swung wildly on Wednesday amid a report it might be taken over, spinning London stocks into volatile uncertainty after an overnight rescue for US insurer AIG.

AFP - The European economy will suffer collateral damage from the crisis roiling the financial sector, although the extent of the fallout remains to be seen, ministers and analysts warned on Wednesday.

AFP - London shares closed sharply lower on Wednesday, giving up early gains sparked by the overnight rescue of US insurance giant AIG and amid news of takeover talks between Lloyds TSB and struggling mortgage lender HBOS.