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Reuters - Shares on Wall Street are expected to open higher on Tuesday, taking a cue from a strong performance in European and Asian markets, while bid talk takes the top slot in a thin day for company events.

FT.com - London equities recovered some poise on Tuesday as dealers sought to put more than a week of volatile trading behind them. More Info...  

FT.com - European investors put aside the recent equity correction and looked ahead to expected gains on Wall Street, while some strong results also gave the market support. More Info...  

FT.com - London equities recovered in opening trade, after strong earnings news from the mining and utility sectors, with news of a brace of big dividend increases helping to cheer embattled investors. More Info...  

AP - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Tuesday that the global economy is as strong as he's ever seen and that reforms in China would help lessen the kind of market volatility that has recently rocked international stock markets.

AFP - The Shanghai Stock Exchange has reiterated plans to bolster its fledgling bourse by attracting heavyweight Chinese companies to list at home this year, state press reported Tuesday.

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AP - Japanese stocks rebounded in early trade Tuesday on bargain hunting after a weeklong slide in world markets. The dollar was lower against the yen.

AP - Wall Street seesawed through an erratic session Monday, trying to stabilize but ultimately finishing near its lows of the day amid worries about mortgage defaults, a strengthening yen and tumbling stock markets abroad.

Investor's Business Daily - The bigger they are, the harder they fall. That certainly was true for U.S. diversified stock funds in February. More Info...  

AFP - Global stock markets saw more havoc Monday as Wall Street share prices failed to sustain a rebound and as investor jitters drove down values in Europe and Asia.

Reuters - U.S. stocks slid on Monday as a worldwide flight from riskier assets moved into a second week, fed in part by heightened concerns about the flagging health of the subprime mortgage market.

FT.com - Wall Street stocks extended losses on Monday after a choppy day's trading in which fragile investor sentiment was once again undermined by the troubles of subprime mortgage lenders. More Info...  

FT.com - Wall Street stocks opened sharply lower on Monday but stabilised by mid-afternoon as investors' concerns about the global carry trade eased. More Info...  

FT.com - As markets tried to find a level on Monday after more heavy selling in Asia, one question was easy to answer. How, people wanted to know, could last Tuesday's 9 per cent fall in Chinese stocks possibly have caused such mayhem across the world? The answer: it didn't. More Info...  

FT.com - Businesswomen make up a growing percentage of the global workforce but are still under-represented in the boardroom. With just 117 women among the 1,130 directors of the FTSE 100 companies, according to a recent survey (January 2007) by Cranfield University, it would need almost a fourfold increase in female representation to achieve gender equality. More Info...  

FT.com - London equities fell on Monday, but closed above session lows as steadier US trade helped settle nerves during another turbulent session around the world. The FTSE 100 closed down 0.9 per cent at 6,058.7 a fall of 57 points. More Info...  

AP - European and Asian markets fell again Monday, extending their slide into a second week as investors worried about a possible global slowdown and dumped stocks that had surged in recent weeks. U.S. stocks were steady in early trading.

AP - The dollar fell to a three-month low against the Japanese yen but rose against the euro Monday as global stock markets extended their losses into a second week. More Info...  

FT.com - Wall Street stocks opened lower before stabilising on Monday, with the shares in troubled subprime mortgage lenders plunging after the initiation of a criminal investigation. More Info...  

FT.com - London equities tumbled on Monday, as steep losses on leading Asian exchanges overnight scotched hopes of a recovery after last week's steep falls. Indices stayed above session lows as US trade began, after expectations of a slower start on Wall Street were priced in as Dow and S&P futures accurately predicted the losses. More Info...