Treasury Secretary Paulson: bank bailout cash should not be sent to automakers.

Reuters - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Tuesday said the unpredictable nature of the current financial crisis meant it was necessary to ensure that financial bailout money was not diverted to other uses.

Reuters - Billionaire basketball team owner Mark Cuban responded to U.S. insider trading charges on Tuesday, saying on his website that he had not agreed to keep information about a proposed stock sale confidential.

Even the once safe haven for money now doesn't look quite as safe.

The day after Yahoo announced the imminent departure of chief executive and co-founder Jerry Yang, the stock market applauded.

The UAW and automakers want a loan, but union doesn't want to give up too much.

Wholesale prices dropped 2.8 percent in October, the biggest one-month decline on records that go back more than 60 years as energy prices fell.

Reuters - Stock futures pointed to a lower Wall Street open on Tuesday, with futures for the Dow Jones industrial average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 down 1.5 to 1.8 percent at 5:54 a.m. EST.

Ford will end 12 years of control of Mazda through the sale of a 20 percent stake in the Japanese carmaker.

Reuters - Producer prices fell a record 2.8 percent in October as energy prices slid, government data on Tuesday showed, but a measure of core inflation at the farm and factory gate rose more than forecast.

Every Asian market fell, as investors in the region caught up with Monday?s drop on Wall Street, while European markets were off as well.

The heads of Detroit?s Big Three automakers and the United Auto Workers union were arguing for federal assistance before a Senate committee.

AP - Share prices on the London Stock Exchange closed higher Tuesday.

Home Depot, the home improvement retail chain, reported a 31 percent drop in quarterly profit as consumers put off big-ticket projects amid a deepening economic crisis.

Reuters - Japan's Mazda Motor Corp (7261.T) said on Tuesday it would announce major-shareholder changes amid reports that Ford Motor Co would shed a stake of about 20 percent in its affiliate.

Reuters - Home Depot Inc reported a 31 percent drop in quarterly profit on Tuesday as consumers put off big-ticket projects amid a deepening economic crisis.

Reuters - General Electric Co said on Tuesday it was reorganizing its finance arm, GE Capital, with an eye toward saving $2 billion next year.

The court upheld the right of states to prohibit the sale of doctor-specific prescription drug data that is widely used in pharmaceutical marketing.

Automakers plead for $25B bailout, which critics say is undeserved.

HSBC announced that it would cut 500 jobs in Asia. And Citigroup?s roughly 50,000 employees in the were faced with the reality that some of job cuts announced Monday could hit them.