Reuters - Oil fell nearly $1 to below $53 a barrel Tuesday on expectations U.S. inventory data would show an increase in crude stockpiles and as the greenback made gains against other currencies.

AP - Stocks gave back some of their gains Tuesday as investors looked for fresh signals about Wall Street's direction a day after the market's biggest advance in five months.

Reuters - Stocks edged lower on Tuesday as investors paused the day after a huge bounce to gauge if the government's latest plans to shore up the economy will be enough to sustain the recent rally.

Reuters - Oil prices hit their highest level in nearly three months on Monday as a U.S. plan to purge banks of toxic assets triggered a rally on Wall Street and brightened the outlook for flagging energy demand.

AFP - Oil prices climbed Monday to their highest levels since late 2008 in tandem with a world stock market rally on a US government plan to rid ailing banks of their toxic assets.

AFP - Wall Street shares skyrocketed Monday as the market cheered a plan to clean up toxic assets clogging the balance sheets of US banks in a bid to stabilize the recession-hit economy.

Reuters - Burned by their failure to uncover the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, U.S. securities regulators are ramping up training of staff on how to spot the warning signs of market swindles.

AP - Wall Street got the news it wanted on the economy's biggest problems — banks and housing — and celebrated by hurtling the Dow Jones industrials up nearly 500 points.

Reuters - Stocks surged around 7 percent on Monday after the Obama administration detailed a plan to purge toxic assets from bank balance sheets, fueling optimism about a revival in bank lending and driving double-digit gains in financial shares.

AP - Wall Street got the news it wanted on the economy's biggest problems — banks and housing — and celebrated by hurtling the Dow Jones industrials up nearly 500 points.

AFP - Upbeat investors sent stock markets soaring Tuesday on hopes of a quick fix for the economic crisis, despite a warning that world trade is set for its biggest fall since World War II.