(Reuters) - Blockbuster Inc <BBI.N>, which abandoned its offer to buy Circuit City Stores Inc <CC.N> this week, may try to acquire the electronics retailer later, the New York Post said Thursday citing insiders.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 1.5 percent, ending the day firmly in bear-market territory. GM took a hit as one analyst raised the prospect of bankruptcy. Lehman Brothers rose.

Stocks were back on the see-saw Wednesday, rising and falling with each new report or flinch in oil prices.

Circuit City Stores Inc. plummeted to historic lows in trading Wednesday after Blockbuster Inc. withdrew its takeover bid, causing investors to question the consumer electronics retailer's future.

Stocks were back on the see-saw Wednesday, rising and falling with each new report or flinch in oil prices.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Circuit City Stores Inc <CC.N> shares sank as much as 16 percent on Wednesday after Blockbuster Inc <BBI.N> abandoned its bid for the electronics retailer, saying a deal was not in the movie rental company's best interest amid current market conditions.

Shares of Blockbuster Inc. and Circuit City Stores Inc. headed in opposite directions at market open Wednesday after the movie rental chain ended its bid to buy the big-box electronics retailer.

Stocks were back on the see-saw Wednesday, rising and falling with each new report or flinch in oil prices.

Circuit City Stores Inc. plummeted to historic lows in trading Wednesday after Blockbuster Inc. withdrew its takeover bid.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Blockbuster Inc <BBI.N> on Tuesday abandoned its offer to buy electronics retailer Circuit City Stores Inc <CC.N>, after weeks of investor speculation that the deal was falling apart.

Blockbuster Inc <BBI.N>, which abandoned its offer to buy Circuit City Stores Inc <CC.N> this week, may try to acquire the electronics retailer later, the New York Post said Thursday citing insiders.

Blockbuster Inc. said Tuesday it is withdrawing its proposal to buy Circuit City Stores Inc., the big-box electronics retailer whose sales have tumbled this year.

Filling the gas tank is a higher priority than buying a flat-panel television, which is bad news for electronics retailers.

Standard & Poor's CapitalIQ tracks deal spreads, or the difference between the offer price and the deal's current value. CapitalIQ reports that in June the following five buyouts had the highest spreads, as of June 4.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Retailer Circuit City Stores Inc <CC.N> has received buyout interest from several strategic and financial bidders, including movie-rental company Blockbuster Inc <BBI.N>, and a sales agreement could be announced over the next month, an institutional investor said on Tuesday.