TechWeb - Dell Inc reported lower-than-expected quarterly profit margins and warned that rising costs could depress future results, sending its shares down 10 percent.

Reuters - Asian stock markets mostly rose on Monday as financial shares extended gains on hopes of further U.S. interest rate cuts, but some technology stocks eased after Dell Inc's disappointing outlook.

Reuters - Japan's Nikkei average took a breather on Monday after gaining more than 5 percent the previous week, as exporters such as Canon Inc slipped on a slightly stronger yen.

Reuters - Stock futures pointed to a second straight day of declines on Wall Street on Tuesday as financials remained under pressure after a series of broker downgrades and warnings from policymakers on the growth outlook.

FT.com - London equities rebounded on Wednesday, with fresh bid activity in the mining sector helping to claw back some of the previous session's losses.

AP - Japanese stocks rose Thursday, as market sentiment was cheered by Wall Street's overnight rebound and the yen's weakness against the U.S. dollar.

AP - Japanese stocks hit a one-month high Friday, lifted by Wall Street's rally overnight on the U.S. government's plan for dealing with country's credit crisis.

FT.com - London equities fell on Monday on news of a £200m writedown at Lloyds TSB. The announcement added concern about the impact of the credit squeeze on the banking sector.

AFP - The New York Stock Exchange formally opened a Beijing office on Tuesday in the hope of luring more of China's rapidly growing companies to list on the world's largest bourse.

AP - Asian stock markets sank Wednesday on disappointment that the U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point, not the more aggressive half-point that some had hoped for.

AP - Japanese stocks tumbled Thursday on pessimism about a key central bank survey to be released Friday that investors expect will show deteriorating confidence among business executives.

FT.com - Stocks fell across the Asia-Pacific region for a third day Friday, shrugging off a rise overnight on Wall Street.

AP - Wall Street and stock market investors in general aren't feeling much love for Ben Bernanke these days.

Reuters - Stock index futures fell before the start of Wall Street trading on Monday with eyes on the Federal Reserve's first Term Auction Facility (TAF), a money market operation intended to ease the credit crunch.

AP - After a year of record revenue and the departure of a longtime CEO, executives at Adobe Systems Inc. say 2008 will bring additional product releases and the completion of an aggressive stock buyback program.

AP - Fallout from the housing downturn and an accounting charge helped Hovnanian Enterprises Inc.'s fiscal fourth-quarter loss nearly quadruple, but the homebuilder's chief executive says there are some encouraging signs.

AP - Japanese stocks snapped a seven-day losing streak Thursday, as concerns eased about the possibility of major Japanese banks becoming entangled in a fund to deal with the U.S. home loan crisis.

AP - Japanese stocks rose Friday, led by electronics shares following Nasdaq's rally in the U.S. and a joint-venture agreement by Toshiba and Sharp in the liquid crystal display business.

Reuters - Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Monday, with stocks likely to hold on to Friday's sharp gains in an abbreviated Christmas Eve trading session.

AFP - Troubled Japanese electronics manufacturer Sanyo Electric was Tuesday threatened with delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange after it corrected six years of earnings reports.

FT.com - Wall Street stocks were set for a mixed start on Wednesday with retailers in focus amid concerns about the crucial holiday shopping period. Bond prices slipped and the dollar declined.

FT.com - Unsettled stock markets in recent months affected WH Ireland's financial services and stockbroking activities, the Manchester-based investment banking group said in a trading update on Thursday.

AFP - Asian stock markets mostly skidded lower Friday following heavy losses on Wall Street as the murder of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto reverberated around the world, dealers said.

AP - Wall Street finished an erratic week narrowly mixed Friday after a government report of a steep decline in new home sales stirred concerns that weakness in housing will continue to dog the economy. The major indexes lost ground for the week.

Reuters - Wall Street is set to end 2007 with modest gains this week and kick off the new year with all eyes trained on jobs data for signs of recession that could make 2008 a hostile environment for stocks.

Reuters - Pakistan's share market slumped on Monday in its first reaction to the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto whose death plunged the country into one of its deepest crises.