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Fourth-quarter U.S. bank results will show anemic lending and still-rising credit losses, but investors are focused more on 2010 outlooks for signs that the fledgling recovery might take hold this year, analysts said.

Stock index futures rose on Wednesday as a positive outlook from Kraft Foods Inc revived hopes of a strong earnings season, and Chinese Internet search engine Baidu Inc surged on news rival Google Inc may pull out of China.

U.S. stocks slid in a broad selloff on Tuesday as investors pummeled financials on concerns about a potential government levy on banks, while Alcoa Inc's disappointing results tempered optimism about the economic recovery.

U.S. stocks slid in a broad selloff on Tuesday as investors pummeled financials on concerns about a potential government levy on banks, while Alcoa Inc's disappointing results tempered optimism about the economic recovery.

Stock index futures dropped on Tuesday on a subpar start to earnings season following Alcoa Inc's worse-than-expected results and Chevron Corp's warning that its income would be sharply lower.

Stock index futures dropped on Tuesday after Alcoa posted worse-than-expected results and Chevron warned that its income would be sharply lower in a disappointing to start to earnings season.

U.S. employers unexpectedly cut 85,000 jobs in December, cooling optimism on the labor market's recovery and keeping pressure on President Barack Obama to find ways to spur job growth.

Baltimore's defeat in a lawsuit accusing Wells Fargo & Co of steering minority borrowers to expensive home loans may not derail efforts by local governments to hold the biggest mortgage providers responsible for lending they contend hurts cities.rr

The security scare that shut Newark airport for hours and delayed thousands of passengers was caused by a man who slipped into a secure area to give a woman one last goodbye kiss, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

Stocks were little changed on Thursday after the government said jobless claims rose slightly, with investors in a holding pattern ahead of key monthly non-farm payroll data on Friday.

The U.S. commercial paper market had its biggest weekly percentage contraction in a decade, suggesting companies were nervous about the prospects for a sustained economic recovery, analysts said.

The Dow and Nasdaq slipped on Tuesday as a plunge in pending home sales increased concerns about the housing market a day after stocks rose to 15-month highs.

The Dow industrials slipped on Tuesday as a plunge in November pending home sales increased concerns about the housing market, though a sign of improvement in the manufacturing sector limited losses.

U.S. stocks climbed on Monday, rallying in the first session of the new year, after data showed the manufacturing sector expanded for the fifth straight month and a brokerage upgrade of Intel helped lift semiconductor stocks.

U.S. stocks ended 2009 on Thursday with their best gains since 2003, driven by optimism about the economy's recovery and a brighter outlook for profits.

U.S. stocks ended 2009 on Thursday with their best gains since 2003, with optimism about the economy's recovery pushing the benchmark Standard & Poor's index up 23.5 percent for the year.

Wall Street was set for a modestly higher open on Monday as investors were wary of taking bets that could erode gains heading into year-end.

U.S. municipal bonds already have scored most of the out-sized, bounce-back gains from 2008's bear market and in 2010 will post only ho-hum returns.

Stock index futures indicated a flat to higher open on Monday with investors wary of taking bets that could erode gains heading into year-end.

The 9-year-old boy at the center of an international custody battle arrived back in the United States on Thursday after being reunited in Brazil with his American father at the end of a five-year dispute that tested bilateral ties.

Following an emotional 5 year battle, David Goldman has been reunited with his 9-year old son, Sean, after his wife at the time, took him to Brazil and never came back.