GM board reviews new turnaround plan for bailout (Reuters)

The logo of General Motors is pictured in Berlin November 26, 2008. (Johannes Eisele/Reuters)Reuters - The board of General Motors Corp met on Sunday to review a restructuring plan intended to cut costs and win support for up to $12 billion in emergency funding from the U.S. government, a person familiar with the deliberations said.


Holiday sales view still weak after weekend rush (Reuters)

A woman shops at a Walmart store on 'Black Friday' in Oakland, California, November 28, 2008. (Kimberly White/Reuters)Reuters - Consumers made repeat trips to U.S. stores to seek bargains as holiday shopping kicked off this weekend, but an early rush is unlikely to save what is shaping up to be a bleak sales season, analysts said on Sunday.


Wall St. looks to extend rally; consumers in focus (AP)

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on November 25, 2008. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)AP - Wall Street will look to build on the strongest weekly performance for stocks since 1932 on Monday, with investors focused on how recession-minded shoppers fared at the malls and a raft of government data that could give a clearer picture of the economy.


Stimulus all the rage, bar Germany (Reuters)

A woman rests after shopping at the Dolphin Mall in Miami November 28, 2008. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)Reuters - As recession extends its tentacles across the globe, it is getting hard just to track the hundreds of billions of dollars governments are throwing or promising to throw at the problem.


Microsoft-Yahoo deal “total fiction:” report (Reuters)

A tourist bus passes a Yahoo sign in San Francisco, California October 21, 2008. . (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)Reuters - A report in the Sunday Times that Microsoft Inc is in talks with Yahoo Inc to buy the U.S. internet company's online search business for $20 billion is "total fiction," according to a key executive cited by an influential U.S. blog.




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