 AP - Asian stocks showed signs of life Tuesday after a global market sell-off, with several markets climbing into positive territory or paring losses after opening sharply lower.
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Reuters - A federal inquiry has concluded that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should consider disciplining its director of enforcement and two supervisors for their role in handling an insider trading investigation, The New York Times said citing an obtained report.
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 AFP - Asian stock markets plunged again in early trade Tuesday as fear-stricken investors saw no end in sight to the crisis rocking global financial markets.
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 AFP - Crude oil prices rebounded to near 90 dollars a barrel in Asia Tuesday but dealers said the underlying trend is lower after deepening global financial turmoil and falling stocks further raised fears of slowing energy demand.
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 AFP - World stock markets plunged again Tuesday as the global financial crisis deepened, with governments taking emergency measures to shore up confidence but failing to stem the panic.
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 AFP - The Federal Reserve and the US Treasury, armed with new emergency powers, announced measures to tackle a rapidly escalating financial crisis as panicked investors fled stock markets.
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 AP - Individual European governments issued a flurry of deposit guarantees to shore up their banks but fell short of any coordinated action Monday to deal with the crisis sweeping financial markets, even as stock markets crashed and the euro sank to its lowest level for over a year.
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 AFP - Japanese stocks plunged more than five percent within the first 30 minutes of the Tuesday session amid the global financial crisis that has sent major markets plummeting.
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 AP - Wall Street joined in a worldwide cascade of despair Monday over the financial crisis, driving the Dow Jones industrials to their biggest loss ever during a trading day. Even a big afternoon rally failed to keep the Dow from its first close below 10,000 since 2004.
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AP - Federal regulators on Monday sued political fundraiser Norman Hsu for allegedly operating a $60 million investment scam and using some proceeds to contribute to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other prominent Democrats.
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Reuters - Economic shots traded in Canadian election race
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Reuters - Canada's government said on Monday the economy can still avoid a recession even as the global financial crisis battered the Toronto stock market and economists warned of little growth until late next year.
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AP - Commodities prices tumbled broadly Monday on growing expectations that the financial crisis pummeling world markets will dramatically reduce global demand for energy and raw materials. Gold prices shot up as investors' faith in stock markets dimmed further, touching off a desperate dash for safe alternative investments.
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 Reuters - Stocks slid for a fourth straight day on Monday, leaving the Dow below 10,000 for the first time in four years, on fears the global economy was hurtling into recession despite government efforts to contain the fast-spreading financial crisis.
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NewsFactor - On Friday a report that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital spawned a frenzy in Apple's stock. Now the Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an investigation into whether the false report was an effort to hurt the company's stock, according to CNN spokesperson Jennifer Martin.
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 AFP - Crude oil nosedived below 90 dollars a barrel Monday as deepening global financial turmoil and plunging stock markets raised fears about slowing demand for energy.
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FT.com - "Crash" is a sensitive word in markets. By common consent, there have only been two in the stock markets of the developed world: in October 1929 and October 1987. Must we now add October 2008 to the list?
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Reuters - A Democratic fundraiser whose troubles prompted Hillary Clinton to return $850,000 in campaign contributions on Monday was charged with operating a $60 million Ponzi scheme.
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 Reuters - Richard Fuld, the disgraced head of Lehman Brothers , said he would wonder "until they put me in the ground" why the U.S. government did not rescue the 158-year-old Wall Street firm and claimed regulators knew the full scale of its condition far before its collapse.
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 AFP - The London stock market nosedived 7.85 percent on Monday, hitting a four-year trough on investor concerns about the spreading global financial crisis, dealers said.
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