Reuters - Stocks slid on Thursday with the Dow and S&P falling to 12-year lows as General Motors' warning of possible bankruptcy and concerns about the banking system's fate reinforced investors' reluctance to take on risk.

AP - Investors retreated from Wall Street again, driven by worries about the nation's big banks and General Motors Corp.

AP - Investors retreated from Wall Street again, driven by worries about the nation's big banks and General Motors Corp.

AFP - Japan's Nikkei stock index lost more than three percent in early trade Friday after Wall Street tumbled overnight amid a wave of bad corporate news and silence from China on new economic stimulus measures.

Reuters - The dollar rolled back sharply from three-year highs on Friday and demand for euro zone government debt rose as investors fretted that U.S. employment data would be worse than previously forecast.

AP - Asian stock markets resumed their downward slide Friday after Wall Street fell to its lowest levels in more than 12 years amid deepening fears about the fate of General Motors Corp. and major financial companies.

AFP - Stocks in London were flat at the start of trade on Friday, showing a gain of just 0.01 percent.

AFP - European equities slid on Thursday, after a mixed showing in Asia, as investors took profits and switched attention to interest rate decisions in Britain and the eurozone, analysts said.

AP - European markets dropped Thursday after the previous session's strong rally, as investors turned cautious ahead of key interest rate decisions later in the day by the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.

AFP - The FTSE 100 fell sharply on Thursday after the European Central Bank and Bank of England both announced interest rate cuts to record low values.

AP - The Dow Jones industrial average has fallen another 200 points today on new concerns about the stability of General Motors and the ongoing uncertainty about the financial system. In afternoon trading, the Dow is down 228.35, or 3.32 percent, to 6,647.49, a low not seen since April 1997.