Chinese shares rebounded Monday, along with other regional markets, after Dubai said it had received $10 billion from Abu Dhabi to repay debts owed by its Dubai World investment conglomerate.
Stock indexes rose Thursday as a jump in exports offset concerns about an increase in weekly unemployment claims
Japanese stocks fell Thursday as fresh concerns about the strong yen and mounting doubts about the country's economic recovery weighed on sentiment.
A weaker dollar and hopes for more good news on employment are lifting stock futures.
Dubai's main stock exchange plunged for a third straight day Wednesday as investors dumped holdings.
World stock markets fell Wednesday amid ongoing worries about sovereign credit risks and ahead of a key budgetary policy statement from the British government.
The Arkansas Securities Department announced Tuesday that it fined a broker $50,000 and suspended his license for two weeks after a probe into alleged fraudulent mutual fund sales
Stocks are slightly lower in early trading as concerns about foreign debt problems offset a weaker dollar.
The Securities and Exchange Commission must tighten its process for deciding which investment advisers to inspect if it is to avoid colossal breakdowns like the one that allowed Bernard Madoff's multibillion-dollar fraud to go undetected for 16 years, the agency's inspector general says.
