Asian share markets struggled to hold firmer ground on Tuesday but won some respite from recent losses, while the euro rose tentatively as investors took a break from selling it off over fiscal concerns in the euro zone.

AP - Authorities launched a criminal investigation Monday into the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction, saying they couldn't rule out negligence.

Chrysler Group LLC says it will invest 0 million to build the Fiat 500 minicar at its assembly plant near Mexico City.

DALLAS — If you want a pillow and blanket in coach on American Airlines, it's going to cost you. The airline will charge for a pillow and blanket in coach class for domestic trips and some international flights longer than two hours, beginning May 1. The international flights are to and from Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, the Caribbean and Central America.

AP - A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the company's slump.

Boeing Co.'s giant 747-8 freighter -- the biggest plane the company has ever built -- took off on its first flight Monday, a year later than originally planned.

John Clinton Tuttle of Seattle, Wash. is waging guerrilla warfare against high interest rates and other depredations of the credit card industry. He's literally sticking it to 'em -- he's launched a campaign to encourage angry consumers to put bank-bashing stickers on ATMs. "The credit card business is unethical," said Tuttle, 60, who told HuffPost he put 40 stickers on ATMs in Seattle last Thursday. The stickers say "Stand up to the rich bankers!" and direct ATM customers to Tuttle's website, www.creditcardrevolt.com, where he makes the case for five basic reforms for the credit card industr

NEW YORK----John Gerspach, Chief Financial Officer of Citigroup, will present at the 2010 Credit Suisse Financial Services Forum on Thursday, February 11, 2010. The presentation is expected to begin at approximately 8:45 AM .

The Christian Science Monitor - The American financial industry has become too big for its britches.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed below 10,000 for the first time in three months Monday on nagging concerns about debt loads in Europe.

Toyota says it is recalling about 437,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problems -- the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker.

AP - Bolivia's government says it expects thousands of activists, environmentalists and scientists to travel to the Andean nation for conference on climate change.

AP - Google Inc. has lowered by 0 the fee it charges customers who break a standard two-year contract for its new Nexus One phone on the T-Mobile USA Inc. network.

AP - A magnitude 5.7-earthquake has shaken southern Mexico near the Oaxaca coast.

AP - An instructor at a public community college in Fresno has been presenting his religious views on homosexuality, abortion and global warming as fact to students in an introductory health science class, the American Civil Liberties Union alleged Monday.

Reuters - Federal government agencies in the capital region will remain closed for a second day on Tuesday as residents brace for another blizzard while trying to clean up from a weekend storm that paralyzed the area with two feet of snow.

AP - Survivors of Haiti's catastrophic earthquake have had one saving grace: There's been no significant rain since the disaster. But that won't last.

Clean energy is one of the top topics in the world these days, in presidential speeches, economic growth plans and projections, international competition and cooperation, and even in Hollywood. We have seen rapid growth in wind power, rooftop solar, innovative financing, and much more recently. Here is my list of the Top 10 “Clean Energy” Topics (some aren’t what I would consider the cleanest) to keep an eye on. 1. International Clean Energy Race The “international clean energy race” may well determine who will lead the world economy in the future — “the nation that leads the clean energy

AP - A second major storm in less than a week was blowing Tuesday toward the Mid-Atlantic region, where plows still hadn't touched some roads, utility workers were struggling to restore power and shovels were in short supply.