Reuters - Investment bank Lehman Brothers , computer maker Dell , auto makers such as GM and Ford as well as a key manufacturing gauge are likely stock market focal points on Tuesday.

AFP - Asian stock markets mounted a strong rally Wednesday, tracking an overnight surge on Wall Street as investors hoped the worst of the global credit crisis was over.

AP - Research In Motion Ltd. said Wednesday its fiscal fourth-quarter profit and sales more than doubled as the BlackBerry maker beat expectations and shrugged off concerns that a slowdown in the U.S economy is hurting business.

AP - The dollar rose against the yen in Asia Friday despite a drop in Japanese stocks as some traders bought in anticipation of U.S. jobs data due later in the day coming in better than expected.

Reuters - Japan's Nikkei stock average edged up by 0.4 percent on Monday as the dollar rose, but Toyota Motor Co weakened on worries about a slowing U.S. economy after the biggest monthly fall in jobs there in five years.

AFP - Europe's main stock markets sank on Tuesday after uninspiring performances overnight on Wall Street and earlier in Asia, analysts said.

AFP - Shares in BHP Billiton surged more than five percent Wednesday after a report in Australia that China was poised to buy a multi-billion dollar stake in the world's largest miner.

AP - Japanese stocks fell for a third straight session Thursday as weakness in the property and electronics sectors weighed on the market.

AFP - Europe's main stock markets rose Friday, ending the week on a high note after strong rallies in Tokyo and on Wall Street ahead of a key summit by world finance chiefs, traders said.

AP - HARTFORD, Conn. — General Electric Co. CEO Jeff Immelt was expected to tell the world Friday how the conglomerate's global strategy had paid off and allowed it to ride out the credit crisis.

AFP - Home Secretary Jacqui Smith told a Sunday newspaper that the security services were investigating 30 active terror plots as she made the case for giving them extended powers to combat extremists.

Reuters - Fallout from losses at General Electric and other factors pointing to a U.S. recession hit global stock markets hard on Monday while the dollar stayed firm after the G7 expressed concerns over currency swings.

Reuters - Roche Holding AG will aim to reassure that big-selling drugs can keep driving profit when it kicks off the European earnings season, as big pharma's blockbusters face growing threats.

Reuters - Sen. Charles Schumer met the SEC chairman to urge the regulatory agency to step up its scrutiny of conflicts of interest that may have played a role in bond rating companies' misses on the U.S. housing market, the Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday.

AP - Wall Street was poised to open modestly lower Thursday after Merrill Lynch reported a first-quarter loss of $2.14 billion, a shortfall that was worse than many investors anticipated and that raised concerns about other companies' results.

TechWeb - Net profit hit $1.95 billion in the quarter, up about 25% over the year-earlier period, while revenue was about $20 billion.

Reuters - Truck maker Isuzu Motors Ltd (7202.T) may begin building trucks in Saudi Arabia early next year, becoming the first Japanese automaker to produce vehicles there, the Nikkei newspaper said on Monday.

AP - China's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index jumped nearly 7 percent early Monday after the market watchdog announced a new policy for freshly tradable shares, though it ceded most of that gain as trading progressed.

AP - The top editor of The Wall Street Journal is planning to step down after less than a year on the job and four months after the paper was taken over by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., according to a person familiar with the situation.

AP - Stocks headed for a moderate rebound Wednesday as investors awaited another round of first-quarter earnings reports and hoped the numbers would help determine where the economy is headed.

AP - Chinese shares soared early Thursday after the government cut a tax on stock transactions in a move widely seen as a signal of support for the markets.

AP - Wall Street looked to extend its gains into a third straight session Friday as investors awaited a reading on consumer confidence and digested a busy week of corporate earnings reports.

AP - Wall Street has so far had a mostly subdued reaction to corporate earnings released in the past few weeks, but that could be about to change.

Reuters - Asian stock markets rose on Monday as investors' confidence in the battered financial sector seeped back and the dollar held on to recent gains, despite the oil price hitting a fresh all-time high close to $120 a barrel.

Reuters - Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 0.2 percent to hit a two-month closing high on Monday, led higher by financial players such as top lender Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (8306.T), which jumped on improving investor confidence in the sector.

TechWeb - Verizon Wireless unit recorded 1.5 million net customer additions, and Verizon's FiOS TV service signed up 263,000 net new customers.

AP - Korean Air Lines Co. said Wednesday it recorded a first-quarter net loss on higher fuel costs and unfavorable foreign exchange rates.