AP - Early gains in the stock market are giving way to caution about the economy.

Reuters - The Dow and S&P 500 gained on Thursday, breaking a three-day losing streak, as data on the job market and regional manufacturing revived hopes that the recession-hit economy is stabilizing.

AP - Investors can't seem to get the stock market rally back up to full speed again.

AP - Asian stocks were mostly higher Friday as a string of upbeat U.S. economic reports reinforced hopes of a recovery in the world's largest economy and helped arrest the region's four-day slide.

AFP - The London stock market was higher at the open on Friday, after closing up the day before.

AP - European stock markets were steady Thursday after sizable falls in Asia earlier as investors continued to worry that a global economic recovery later this year — the main driver behind the rally since March — could be choked off at birth by rising interest rates and oil prices.

AFP - European stock markets were lower Thursday, extending losses with sentiment in London hit especially by more dire British economic data showing the rising cost of the recession.

AFP - The London stock market edged higher at the close on Thursday, powered by better-than-expected US data.

Reuters - Stocks gained on Thursday after a recent small pullback as data on the jobs market and regional manufacturing revived hopes that the recession-hit economy is stabilizing.

AP - Investors are piling back into shares of financial and health care companies, pushing the stock market higher after three days of losses.

Reuters - Oil rose on Wednesday, supported by government data showing a drop in U.S. crude supplies, gains in the stock market and a weaker dollar.

Reuters - Technology shares buoyed the Nasdaq on Wednesday after positive broker comments on Qualcomm, but financial shares' losses held back the Dow and the S&P 500.