**GENERAL MOTORS CO, Wednesday close $30.18, up 4 pct premarket. **SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY, Wednesday close $36.94, up 4 pct premarket. **FACEBOOK INC, Wednesday close $27.43, up 2 pct premarket.
An online poll of 1,538 people conducted March 4-8 by Reuters/ Ipsos found that two-thirds of adults say they are cutting their monthly spending and almost all of the rest say their spending is little changed.
Shares of Lear, which in 2007 rejected a $3 billion buyout attempt by an affiliate of billionaire investor Carl Icahn, rose as much as 8 percent on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday morning.
Dec 4- Darden Restaurants Inc reported a steep fall-off in business at its Olive Garden, Red Lobster and LongHorn Steakhouse chains on Tuesday and lowered financial expectations for the year, sending shares down 10 percent.