AP - Mark Cuban sued the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday for access to documents detailing the insider trading case against the Dallas Mavericks owner.
AP - Asian stocks were modestly higher after Japanese industrial production jumped at its fastest pace in 56 years, in the latest sign recession was easing in major economies.
AP - European stock markets fell Thursday following big losses on Wall Street as investors worried that a rise in U.S. bond yields could derail any nascent global economic recovery.
AP - A lawyer for the Securities and Exchange Commission tried to raise doubts Thursday about the credibility of a former Kmart Corp. chief executive as the government's civil fraud trial moved toward a conclusion. -- read full article
Reuters - Stocks rose on Thursday as energy and commodity shares climbed on higher oil prices and after results of a Treasury bond auction eased any fresh worries over demand for government debt.
AP - Standard & Poor's is launching a Canadian stock index to give investors who follow Islamic law a guide to the country's equity market. -- read full article
Reuters - Stocks dropped on Wednesday as rising yields on U.S. government debt fueled concern that businesses and consumers could face higher borrowing costs, which could hamper an economic recovery.
AP - A bankruptcy filing by General Motors Corp. would not only send one of America's most storied automakers into further upheaval, it would also force a shake-up in the Dow Jones industrial average. -- read full article
AP - Stocks tumbled Wednesday, erasing most of a rally from the day before as a jump in government bond yields fanned worries that higher interest rates will sap strength from the economy. -- read full article
AP - How far the Dow Jones industrial average has fallen or advanced each trading day since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sept. 15. Since Lehman's fall, which touched off a paralysis of the credit markets and deepened the recession, the stock market has gone through an extended period of volatility that subsided during December but that has returned in 2009. The numbers are the closing levels for the Dow: -- read full article
AP - The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed fraud charges against Pegasus Wireless Corp. and two of its executives for illegally selling hundreds of millions of the company's shares and lying about it in company filings. -- read full article
Reuters - Asian shares retreated from seven-months highs on Thursday as concerns grew that rising yields on U.S. government debt could push up borrowing costs and choke off a potential recovery in the world's largest economy.
