IBT Staff Reporter

Stocks headed for a lower open on Friday as a pullback in commodity prices weighed on natural resource shares after the U.S. dollar rebounded.

At the height of the luxury goods boom, launching a single successful it bag was enough to substantially alter a company's profit outlook.

Oil fell toward $71 a barrel on Friday, trimming a 3 percent gain in the previous session, as a bounce in the dollar outweighed a more positive demand outlook from the International Energy Agency.

Lucy Liu is starring in the Mexican-produced Nomads, an English-language drama.

Kristen Bell will star as Christina Aguilera's rival in Burlesque, a musical drama being directed by Steve Antin.

Mia Wasikowska, who plays the title character in Tim Burton's upcoming Alice in Wonderland, is in final negotiations to star in Gus Van Sant's next project, the dark coming-of-age drama Restless.

Disney will celebrate Opposite Day. The studio is developing a high-concept comedy with that title and has hired Nancy Drew scribe Tiffany Paulsen to write it.

Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the Nobel literature prize on Thursday, saying Nicolae Ceausescu's brutal dictatorship compelled her to write of how a powerful few can dominate and destroy a nation.

Government programs to fight the U.S. home foreclosure crisis look increasingly inadequate and should be reworked, expanded and supplemented with new ideas, a congressional watchdog said in a report on Friday.

Stock index futures extended losses on Friday as the U.S. dollar's rebound pressured global commodity prices and weighed on natural resources shares.

Aid groups and development banks have come up with the perfect, albeit ironic, solution for investors that have seen billions of dollars go down the pan during the financial crisis. Invest in toilets.

A British UFO eccentric, wanted in the United States for breaking into NASA and Pentagon computers in the biggest military hack of all time, lost his latest battle to avoid extradition on Friday.

Stock index futures were little changed on Friday as a pullback in commodity prices weighed on natural resource shares as the U.S. dollar rebounded.

Government programs to fight the U.S. home foreclosure crisis look increasingly inadequate and should be reworked, expanded and supplemented with new ideas, a congressional watchdog said in a report on Friday.

U.S. President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday.

Stock index futures were little changed on Friday as a pullback in commodity prices weighed on natural resource shares as the U.S. dollar rebounded.

China's key stock indexclosed up 4.76 percent on Friday, its third-biggest daily gainthis year, as the market played catch-up with a strong globalrally during the country's eight-day National Day holiday.

Canadian employers hired six times more workers than expected in September, knocking down the unemployment rate for the first time since July 2008 in another sign the economy is rebounding from a deep recession.

Lenders trying to seize control of the parent company of two bankrupt Philadelphia newspapers won a judge's approval to use money owed to them as part of their bid, a move that could deliver the papers to their hands.

Europe's largest telecoms company, Telefonica (TEF.MC), announced a bigger than expected dividend on Friday despite a major planned acquisition, with an upbeat business outlook justifying its open-handedness in the downturn.

Stock index futures were little changed on Friday as a retreat in commodity prices weighed on natural resource shares after the U.S. dollar rebounded.

Stock index futures were little changed on Friday as a retreat in commodity prices weighed on natural resource shares after the U.S. dollar rebounded.

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher speaks before the CATO Institute 27th Annual Monetary Policy Conference: Restoring Global Financial Stability, 1645 EST/2145 GMT. Speech topic, audience/media Q&As TBA.

Stock futures point to a mixed start on Friday for U.S. shares, following gains on Thursday.

European equities edged lower on Friday, with the key index hovering around 1,000 points, as weaker miners offset telecom shares that rose after Telefonica (TEF.MC) offered bigger-than-expected dividends.

Britain's top shares were down 0.1 percent around midday on Friday, with falls in mining stocks just outweighing modest gains in oil majors and drugmakers during a largely directionless session.

Actress Elizabeth Taylor said on Thursday that her heart surgery went off perfectly, saying that it's like having a brand new ticker.

Inflation Fears Weigh; Home Concerns Remain; Questioning Citi's Review

U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world hope for a better future and striving for nuclear disarmament.