AFP - A Toronto man Monday pleaded not guilty to plotting to bomb Canada's main stock exchange in 2006, as prosecutors said he aimed to profit from wreaking economic havoc to fund other terror attacks.

AP - Hopes that global manufacturing activity is heating up lifted industrial stocks Monday ahead of an earnings report from Alcoa Inc.

AP - Federal regulators have expanded their charges against Bank of America Corp. over billions in bonuses paid at Merrill Lynch, accusing the bank of failing to disclose mounting losses at Merrill before a shareholder vote approving the combination of the two firms.

AFP - The London stock market started the session positively on Tuesday after supermarket Tesco reported higher holiday sales.

AP - Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday as investors held back ahead of a stream of earnings while Japan Airlines tumbled 45 percent amid fears of bankruptcy. European shares fell moderately.

Reuters - World stocks fell on Tuesday as investors digested early results from the U.S. and European earnings seasons while the dollar climbed on a Chinese view its decline has hit bottom.

Reuters - U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.5 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.5 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.6 percent.

AFP - London's main stock market index on Monday hit its highest level since September 2008, when the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers signalled the start of the global economic crisis.

AFP - European stock markets rallied Monday, with London hitting the highest level since September 2008 when the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers signalled the start of the economic crisis.

AFP - The Kuwait Stock Exchange building was closed and evacuated on Monday after officials received a bomb threat from an anonymous caller, which turned out to be a hoax, officials said.

AP - European stock markets closed flat Monday as early gains petered out once Wall Street failed to push higher ahead of the start of the U.S. fourth quarter earnings reports.