Postbank sale may fail over target price: report (Reuters)
Reuters - The sale of Germany's biggest retail bank Deutsche Postbank could fail because the price potential bidders are willing to pay does not meet the expectations of...

Auto sector woes could spur deals: Renault CEO (Reuters)
Reuters - A current slump in the global automotive sector could give fresh impetus to plans for consolidation within...

BCE buyers finalize funding (Reuters)
Reuters - Announcing what it said were "essential milestones" allowing the world's largest leveraged buyout to go ahead, BCE Inc said on Friday that its buyers had finalized...

Hyundai union calls for work stoppage next week (Reuters)
Reuters - Unionized employees of Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS) will walk off the job for four hours next week to push...

Alabama likely site of new VW plant: paper (Reuters)
Reuters - The U.S. State of Alabama will be the likely home of a new Volkswagen manufacturing plant, beating two other states,...

Smooth sailing for yacht builders despite economy (AP)
AP - Fuel prices are soaring and credit markets tightening, but the super-rich are still lining...

Energy shares, tame jobs data lift Dow (Reuters)
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Dow rose on Thursday, a day after the blue-chip average entered a bear market, on relief payrolls data was not as weak as some...

Economy - Thursday (Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - The benchmark 30-year fixed home loan rate fell 10 basis points to 6.35%, ending a 5-week uptrend to a 9-month peak, mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac said. Weaker economic data made a Fed rate hike less likely, pushing Treasury yields and mortgage rates lower. The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage slid 12 ticks...

Australia's Origin Energy rejects BG's $13B bid (AP)
AP - Origin Energy Ltd., Australia's second largest power retailer, rejected a $13...

European exchanges post sharp falls on fears for banking sector (AFP)
AFP - European stock exchanges suffered sharp falls Friday on fresh fears for the health...

European shares fall, Asia markets mixed (AP)
AP - European markets fell and Asian markets were mixed Friday as investors digested uneven readings on the U.S. economy and oil prices that remained near records. Japan posted its 12th straight day of losses. ...

Japan's key stock index extends losses (AP)
AP - Japan's key stock index extended its longest slide in more than a half-century, as record...

World stocks fall on financial shares, oil drops (Reuters)
Reuters - World stocks edged lower on Friday, getting no relief from a decline in crude prices as concerns of further banking write-downs weighed on financial shares. ...

Hot Iron Ore, Coal Prices Spur Steel Deals (Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Steel and mining stocks tumbled Wednesday, but as China and India continue to build their way into the 21st century, steel and the iron ore and coking coal to make it are still hot commodities. ...

Stocks end mixed following jobs, services data (AP)
AP - Wall Street capped a shortened trading week with a mixed finish Thursday after some uneven economic data: news of a contraction in the nation's services sector and a tame reading on employment. But stocks...

Ex-analysts settle SEC insider trading case (Reuters)
Reuters - A former Morgan Stanley financial analyst and her husband, an ex-hedge fund analyst at ING Group,...

Energy shares, tame jobs data lift Dow (Reuters)
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Dow rose on Thursday, a day after the blue-chip average entered a bear market, on relief payrolls data was not as weak as some had feared and with another record oil price boosting energy shares. ...

Dow's bear market run spells trouble for Wall St. (Reuters)
Reuters - With the Dow sliding into a bear market on Wednesday, the dark days on Wall Street are far from over, amid record oil prices, struggling consumers and the never-ending credit crisis. ...

More offerings for China and Hong Kong (FT.com)
FT.com - Stock exchanges in China and Hong Kong are set to shrug aside the market uncertainty and host a further...

Nikkei hits longest losing streak in 43 years (Reuters)
Reuters - The Nikkei average fell 1.3 percent on Wednesday to hit its longest losing streak in more than...

Grasso case "over" as court dismisses claims (Reuters)
Reuters - Former New York Stock Exchange chief Richard Grasso won a knockout victory on Tuesday in his four-year fight to keep every last penny of his $187.5 million pay package, as an appeals court threw out the state's remaining claims against him. ...