AP - A battered stock market recovered from a sharp drop in late trading Friday but still posted its fourth straight weekly drop.

Reuters - Global shares hit three-month lows and the euro fell to an eight-month low against the dollar on Friday as euro zone sovereign debt problems and nerves ahead of U.S. jobs data led investors to dump riskier assets.

AFP - US giant Kraft Foods said on Friday that it will delist Cadbury from the London stock market next month after winning control of more than 75 percent of the group's shares.

AFP - Mounting fears about tattered government finances in Europe drove the euro down and hammered stock markets across Asia on Friday following New York's worst finish since November.

AFP - Global equities tumbled Friday and the euro hit a nine-month dollar low as investors ran for cover on fears that soaring European state debt could damage a fragile economic recovery.

Reuters - JPMorgan Chase & Co JPM.N>, which reported $11.7 billion in profit in 2009, awarded Chief Executive Jamie Dimon a compensation package worth about $16 million.

AP - European and U.S. stock markets fell sharply again Friday despite a surprise improvement in the U.S. unemployment rate, as investors fretted about the debt crisis enveloping Europe after Portugal's lawmakers defeated the government over its deficit reduction plan.

AFP - London stocks took a nosedive Friday as the market reacted to increasing unease about the level of debt accrued by Eurozone countries including Spain and Greece.

Reuters - U.S. stocks fell on Friday, failing to recover from the previous day's brutal selloff, after U.S. jobs data pointed to a slow recovery and investors worried about the health of the euro zone's weakest economies.

AP - The stock market barreled toward its fourth straight weekly drop Friday on another series of troubling signals about the global economy. The Dow Jones industrial average has lost more than 400 points over the past two days.