AP - Wall Street retreated Monday on more signs of economic weakness and executive shake-ups at two major banks — reminders of the ongoing fallout from the credit crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 130 points.

Reuters - Fears that the credit crisis is back rattled financial markets on Tuesday as a newspaper report added to previous woes by suggesting that U.S. giant Lehman Brothers may need to raise nore capital.

Reuters - Futures contracts on leading U.S. stock market indexes were down around 0.5 percent before the start of Wall Street trading on Monday, ahead of the release of the ISM survey of manufacturing activity for May.

AFP - European stocks fell Monday as credit-crunch concerns resurfaced in the banking sector after Britain's Bradford & Bingley warned on profits and agreed to a US cash boost, dealers said.

Reuters - The future of the long-running legal battle over former New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso's $187.5 million compensation package will be weighed by the state's highest court on Tuesday.

Reuters - Stocks slid on Monday on renewed fears the credit crunch has yet to run its course after Standard & Poor's cut its ratings on three big securities firms, Wachovia ousted its chief executive, and a British mortgage lender said the UK home market was in dire straits.

AP - Wall Street retreated sharply Monday on more signs of economic weakness and executive shake-ups at two major banks — reminders of the ongoing fallout from the credit crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 170 points.

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.