- Toshiba to Briefly Halt Chip Output on Weak Demand
- Boeing Mulls Pushing Back Dreamliner Deliveries
- Chief Executive Quits Australian Publisher Fairfax
- Asian Markets Wobble on Gloomy Economic Outlook
- Motor Racing-Honda Pulls Out of Formula One
- Job Cuts Picking Up Steam Just in Time for Holidays
- Pros Say: Bear Market Rallies = New Reality
- CEOs Sound Off: Budget Deficit, Bailouts & More
- Bernanke: 'More Needs To Be Done' on Foreclosures
- Wall of Shame: Fortress Investment's Wes Edens
- Cramer to Geithner: Let FDIC Chair Keep Her Job
- Lightning Round: Boeing, Medtronic, Agrium and More
- Lightning Round OT: Continental, Amylin Pharma and More
- Sell Block: Cramer's Solution for Mortgage-Backed Paper Mess
- Toll Brothers CEO's Housing Outlook
- Making Money Off M&A
- Your First Move For Friday December 5th
- Web Extra: Fast & Furious Trades For Friday
- Malaysia's Proton to build new car with Mitsubishi
- ADB lends $500 mln to clean up dirtiest river
- Tough economy forces many US Muslims delay hajj
- Mexico wants to shrink coins to save a few cents
- Mexican Senate passes stricter credit rules
- US, China promise $20 billion to finance trade
- Cemex: World Bank unit to hear Venezuela dispute
- Philippines' inflation eases for 3rd month
- Report: Boeing may further postpone 787 deliveries
- CEO of Australia's Fairfax Media resigns
Among the premarket stories for Thursday, Dec. 4, from AP Financial News:
NEW YORK (AP) — As executives for the U.S.-based automakers return to Capitol Hill Thursday it's uncertain if they'll get the full financial bailout that they've asked for, though an analyst thinks General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. could be granted the funds and credit line they want.
NEW YORK (AP) — Financial industry lobbyists are pushing the Treasury Department to enact a plan that could help send mortgage interest rates to as low as 4.5 percent in an effort to shake up the moribund housing market.
NEW YORK (AP) — AbitibiBowater Inc., the world's largest newsprint maker, will announce several mill closings Thursday as the Canadian company struggles to survive amid failing newspapers and global recession.
NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Alcoa Inc. fell in premarket trading Thursday after an analyst urged the largest U.S. aluminum producer to cut its $560 million annual dividend in the face of "a rapidly deteriorating aluminum price environment."



