AP - Investors examine the same key economic reports at the start of every month — on manufacturing, the service sector and employment. This week, they'll be looking at these indicators for inflation clues as much as they will for insight into economic growth.

Reuters - U.S. technology shares rose on Friday as strong results from computer maker Dell Inc signaled that business and consumer spending was holding up, driving the Nasdaq to end the month up 4.6 percent.

Reuters - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index pushed almost 1 percent higher on Friday as it rode the strength of resource issues, which benefited from firm commodity prices.

AP - Wall Street closed out a winning week with a narrowly mixed performance Friday after the government reported that Americans' spending rose in April to keep pace with rising costs.

AFP - Wall Street opens the month of June with guarded optimism, as hopes mount that the worst of the economic storm is over and that the peak has passed for surging crude oil prices.

AP - Most of the 8,000 children found alone after China's devastating earthquake have been reunited with their parents, Chinese officials said Friday.

AFP - Europe's main stocks markets advanced on Friday, after overnight gains in New York and earlier in Asia, as the oil-exposed airline sector benefited from falling crude prices, dealers said.

AFP - Blue chips closed lower, as a retreat in crude oil prices aided big fuel users like British Airways, but led to slumps in oil stocks, while there was little direction from Wall Street as stocks traded flat.

Reuters - Technology stocks rose on Friday as higher-than-expected profit from computer maker Dell Inc pointed to strength in business spending, but the broad market was little changed after three days of gains.

AP - Wall Street edged higher Friday after government data indicated Americans' spending rose in April — but only to keep up with rising costs.

Reuters - Wall Street stocks rose on Thursday as a swift drop in oil soothed inflation fears, while an upward revision in a broad measure of U.S. economic growth suggested a recession may be avoided.

AP - Stocks rose for the third straight session Thursday as oil prices fell sharply and the government reported that the economy grew last quarter at a faster pace than previously estimated.

AP - China's official news agency says officials worried that a lake could burst have ordered 1.3 million people to evacuate in Sichuan province.

Reuters - U.S. gasoline futures soared to a new intraday record on Thursday after the U.S. government said gasoline stocks fell last week by a much larger-than-expected amount.