Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, March 22, 2010.  REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS)AP – European stock markets rose modestly Tuesday on the back of an advance on Wall Street and despite ongoing worries about whether an aid package for Greece will emerge at this week’s meeting of European Union leaders.


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AP – President Barack Obama is praising the Democrats’ massive Wall Street regulation bill as it heads to the full Senate.

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US civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson, pictured in 2009, threw his weight Monday behind international calls for a tax on financial transactions to recoup losses from the economic crisis.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Jason Kempin)AP – Senate negotiators closed in on a deal on Wall Street regulations Monday, proposing a new entity inside the Federal Reserve to oversee consumer financial products ranging from credit cards to mortgages.


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US civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson, pictured in 2009, threw his weight Monday behind international calls for a tax on financial transactions to recoup losses from the economic crisis.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Jason Kempin)AP – Senate negotiators are reviewing details of a deal on Wall Street regulations that would create a new entity to oversee consumer financial products ranging from credit cards to mortgages.


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