AP - Wall Street is rising moderately following a Federal Reserve report saying the economy isn't likely to heat up until late this year or early next year.
Reuters - Stocks rallied on Wednesday as shares at 12-year lows lured investors to break a five-day sell-off and a jump in oil and other commodities boosted energy and natural resource companies.
AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown raised the prospect of a global "new deal" to fix the finance industry within months, setting the stage for April's G-20 economic summit with President Barack Obama.
Reuters - Allen Stanford hired a Dallas lawyer to represent him in a case where he is accused of an $8 billion fraud by the U.S. government, court records showed.
Reuters - Stocks fell in volatile trading on Tuesday, with the S&P ending below 700 for the first time since October 1996 as persistent uncertainty about the amount of money needed to shore up the financial system overshadowed a hunt for bargains.
AP - Asian stock markets rebounded Wednesday as hopes China would expand measures to revive its economy countered growing signs of economic decay in the U.S. and other major countries. Shanghai's index jumped more than 6 percent.
Reuters - World stocks clawed their way back up from multi-year lows on Wednesday as investors sought bargains after three days of steep losses brought on by deep fears for the world economy and financial system.
AFP - European and Asian stock markets fell for a second day running Tuesday, though losses were less severe than a day earlier when Wall Street tumbled to 12-year lows and London revisited a 2003 trough.
Reuters - When businessman Lyndon Plant answered an advertisement in his old school newspaper, little did he know that it would be the start of a new career as a film producer. -- read full article
AP - Europe's stock markets mostly recovered their earlier losses Tuesday — with the notable exception of Britain's FTSE 100 index — as U.S. futures pointed to a firmer opening on Wall Street following Monday's severe losses.
