AP - Asian stocks were narrowly mixed Friday amid more corporate gloom and worries that a key U.S. jobs report could show recession in the world's largest economy is deepening.

AP - Hong Kong shares fell Friday ahead of a U.S. jobs report expected to show further weakening in the world's largest economy.

Reuters - Stock futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Friday as investors braced for dismal monthly jobs figures and a rise in the unemployment rate. At 5 a.m. EST, futures for the S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq 100 were down between 0.4 and 0.8 percent.

AP - Asian and European stock markets fell Friday ahead of a U.S. jobs report that investors fear will reveal massive job losses and point to a deepening recession in the world's largest economy.

AFP - Europe's leading stock markets advanced at the start of trade Friday, with London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares edging up 0.02 percent to 4,506.45 points.

AP - Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were lower at midday Friday.

AFP - Europe's main stock markets on Friday extended recent losses as traders reacted to more negative economic news from around the globe while awaiting key US jobs data.

AP - World stock markets fell modestly Friday as investors braced themselves for the U.S. jobs report for December, which many fear could be one of the worst ever.

AP - European stock markets recovered earlier losses Friday following the news that the U.S. economy did not shed as many jobs in December as many investors were predicting.

AFP - Shares in fraud-hit Indian outsourcing giant Satyam Computers plunged again Friday, as investors dumped the stock and the markets regulator served a summons on the company's disgraced former chairman.

Investor's Business Daily - Investors may be wary of the stock market right now, but Knight Capital Group is all in.

Reuters - KB Home posted a worse-than-expected quarterly loss on Friday and said unprecedented pressures on the industry and the economy would remain difficult or worsen, sending its shares lower.

AP - KB Home, one of the nation's largest homebuilders, reported a sharply narrower fourth-quarter loss on Friday, but home demand weakened significantly and the company expects the industry will continue to struggle in 2009.

AP - Investors sent stocks sharply lower Friday after the U.S. unemployment rate shot above 7 percent — a sign that Americans will be sticking to their tightened budgets for a while.

AP - European and U.S. stock markets fell Friday as investors fretted over the outlook for the U.S. economy following an unexpectedly large increase in the unemployment rate.

AP - Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were lower Friday.

AP - Stock markets dropped Friday as investors fretted over the outlook for the U.S. economy after an unexpectedly large increase in the unemployment rate and confirmation that more jobs were lost in 2008 than in any year since World War Two.

AP - KB Home managed to stem its losses in the fourth quarter versus a year ago, but the homebuilder saw sales plummet by 56 percent and said Friday it expects home prices to fall further this year and there are tougher times ahead for the industry.

AP - A jump in unemployment sent stocks sharply lower Friday as investors feared that Americans won't soon deviate from their tightened budgets. The Labor Department's much-anticipated report showed employers cut 524,000 jobs in December, a smaller decline than the loss of 550,000 jobs economists forecast. But the unemployment rate jumped to a 16-year high of 7.2 percent — more than the 7 percent economists predicted — from 6.8 percent in November.

AP - The first full week of 2009 didn't bring Wall Street any huge shocks, but it didn't bring much for investors be happy about, either.