Reuters - Stocks cut gains while the Nasdaq slipped into negative territory on Wednesday as oil prices rose sharply, offsetting positive jobs data and efforts by U.S. officials to boost liquidity in turbulent financial markets.

Reuters - Private employers added 9,000 jobs in July, according to a private report by ADP Employer Services released on Wednesday.

AP - Focused on getting the nation's credit gears smoothly working again, the Federal Reserve is letting Wall Street firms draw emergency loans into next year and giving financial companies more options to help them overcome credit problems.

Reuters - Americans in all age and income groups have reduced credit card use and cut spending on non-essential items as oil and food prices soar, home prices sink and lenders tighten credit, a new study shows.

AP - Gov. David Paterson said Wednesday he wants to freeze hiring and cut state spending by an additional 7 percent to shore up a state economy that his budget director said is officially in recession.

Reuters - Stocks rebounded on Tuesday, rising more than 2 percent on another sharp slide in oil prices and after Merrill Lynch's latest write-down and share sale hinted at a possible turning point in the credit crisis.

Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama met Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the U.S. economy and how to bolster it.

AP - Americans see a slice of sunlight for the economy, as a widely watched report Tuesday showed people are not as pessimistic about the future as they were a month ago.

Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama discussed the risk of further U.S. economic deterioration with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday and made clear his respect for the Fed's independence, the senator's spokesman said.

AP - Wall Street shot higher Tuesday, gaining back the previous session's sharp losses and then some, after a drop in oil prices and a rise in consumer confidence gave investors some hope for a letup in Americans' financial woes. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 266 points.

Reuters - Prices of U.S. single-family homes plunged at a record pace in May from a year earlier, with each of the 20 regions monitored showing annual declines for a second month, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller home price indexes reported on Tuesday.