Reuters - JP Morgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said U.S. regulators should investigate whether people betting on Bear Stearns' stock falling deliberately brought down the investment bank.

AFP - European equities chased Asian markets higher on Monday, with oil-exposed stocks boosted by easing crude prices, as investors awaited Wall Street's reopening after a long US holiday weekend.

AFP - The US Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday that they had agreed to deepen ties to better monitor cash-strapped banks which are reeling from a credit crunch.

Reuters - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index shed more than 2 percent on Monday, in a broad and swift decline sparked by resource shares that were hit by a sharp tumble in oil prices.

Reuters - Stocks fell sharply on Monday, as shares of financials fell on concerns they may have to raise more capital and as a retreat in the price of oil from record highs weighed on energy shares.

AP - Stocks turned lower Monday as investors reacted to cautious remarks about the economy by a Federal Reserve official and worried about the financial health of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Treasurys rose sharply as investors sought the safety of government debt.

Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) plans to install solar panels on its next-generation Prius hybrid cars, becoming the first major automaker to use solar power for a vehicle, the Nikkei business daily reported on Monday.

AP - Investors battered by surging energy prices, disappointing economic data and the ongoing credit crisis will have something else to worry about this week — second-quarter corporate results.

Reuters - World stocks edged lower on Friday, getting no relief from a decline in crude prices as concerns of further banking write-downs weighed on financial shares.

Reuters - World stocks slipped back towards this week's five-month low on Friday as steadying oil prices failed to erase concerns about slowing economic growth and rising inflation, and as banking stocks came under renewed pressure.

AP - Japan's key stock index extended its longest slide in more than a half-century, as record oil prices intensified concerns over the impact on corporate earnings and consumer demand.