AFP - London's FTSE 100 index of top shares rose 1.50 percent at the start of trading on Tuesday, one day after plunging 7.86 percent on growing fears about the global financial crisis.

AFP - Battered world markets shook off some of their recent gloom Tuesday as European stocks rallied and Asian bourses pulled back from the brink on hopes of cuts to global interest rates.

Reuters - Many of China's richest people grew a bit poorer this year as stock and property markets tumbled, but the country's wealthy are riding out the downturn better than many of their foreign counterparts, a survey showed on Tuesday.

AFP - The London stock market sank back into the red on Tuesday, wiping out earlier gains with heavy falls among the troubled banking sector, dealers said.

Reuters - World stocks fell again on Tuesday and sterling hit a 2-1/2 year low after talk of government funding hit UK banks, erasing gains in the benchmark index made after Australia's surprisingly large interest rate cut.

AP - Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday as a big interest rate cut in Australia helped spur recoveries in several regional markets, sparking hopes that other central banks will lower rates to help loosen the global credit crunch.

Reuters - World stocks plunged to three-year lows on Monday as investors fled to government bonds, gold and the low-yielding yen, fearing policymakers' efforts to contain the credit crisis might not be enough to prevent a recession.

Reuters - Shares of Citigroup Inc dropped 6 percent to $17.25 on Monday on uncertainty about plans to take over embattled Wachovia Corp .

AP - Asian and European stock markets plunged Monday as government bank bailouts in the U.S. and Europe failed to alleviate fears that the global financial crisis would depress world economic growth.

AFP - The Toronto Stock Exchange plunged more than 10 percent at its opening Monday, amid fears of deepening US-led worldwide economic woes and predictions of a recession in Canada.

AFP - The Federal Reserve and the US Treasury announced measures Monday to confront a rapidly escalating financial crisis under new emergency powers as panicked investors fled stock markets.

AFP - The London stock market nosedived 7.85 percent on Monday, hitting a four-year trough on investor concerns about the spreading global financial crisis, dealers said.

AFP - Global stock markets reeled Monday, shaken by massive sell-offs by panicked investors who fear a much-vaunted US finance sector bailout will fail to end a crippling credit crisis.