AP - Black Friday's retail shoppers hunting for holiday bargains won't be enough to stave off what's likely to become the next economic crisis. Malls from Michigan to Georgia are entering foreclosure, commercial victims of the same events poisoning the housing market.

AP - Rates on 30-year mortgages sank for a fourth straight week, falling below 6 percent for the first time since early October, and are heading lower due to the government's massive new effort to aid the U.S. housing market.

AP - World stock markets closed modestly higher Tuesday despite some profit-taking that trimmed initial gains brought on by the U.S. government's latest attempt to revive lending in the world's largest economy.

Reuters - Oil prices tumbled nearly 7 percent on Tuesday to below $51 a barrel after data showed the U.S. economy shrank in the third quarter at its fastest pace in seven years, stoking concerns fuel demand will slow further.

AP - Wall Street showed some signs of stability Tuesday as investors, heartened by government plans to aid consumer lending companies, selectively bought more stocks following a huge two-day rally. Gains in blue chips gave the Dow Jones industrials and the Standard & Poor's 500 index their first triple-session advance in more than two months.

Reuters - The Federal Reserve threw a massive life-line to consumers on Tuesday with two new programs aimed at making it easier for them to obtain loans for homes, cars and on credit cards.

AFP - US authorities launched fresh efforts Tuesday to unfreeze credit and limit the economic downturn with programs to buy up to 800 billion dollars in mortgage- and asset-backed securities.

Reuters - After Citigroup Inc shares tumbled last year on the bank's subprime mortgage woes, angry investors sued for fraud. Now, stockholders are due to file a new version of their lawsuit as their losses have become much more stark.