Reuters - Atlantic Southeast Airlines, a
subsidiary of SkyWest Inc has reached a tentative
labor contract with its nearly 1,700 pilots.

Reuters - A court case brought by Nigeria
against Pfizer resumes on Wednesday with the U.S. drug maker
saying it answered a call for help to save the lives of African
children during a meningitis epidemic.

Reuters - The British Treasury has given two U.S.
hedge funds permission to start takeover talks with stricken
British mortgage lender Northern Rock Plc , the Sunday
Telegraph newspaper reported.

Reuters - German industrial conglomerate
ThyssenKrupp aims to double its China sales to 2
billion euros ($2.85 billion) in the next five years, its chief
executive said on Sunday.

Investor’s Business Daily - The Economic Cycle Research Institute's gauge of future U.S. economic growth rose to 141.1 in the week ended Sept. 21 from 140.7 the week before due to lower jobless claims and higher stock prices. The annualized growth rate rose to 1% from 0.5%, a sign that a recession is unlikely in the near term.

Reuters - The probability of a recession in the
United States has increased but is still less than 50/50,
former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in comments
broadcast on Friday.

Investor’s Business Daily - Investors yanked $12.27 billion from stock funds last month in the wake of a market sell-off that started in July and persisted into mid-August.

Reuters - U.S. home goods retailer Bed Bath &
Beyond Inc posted a slightly higher quarterly profit
on Wednesday on increased sales and a one-time tax benefit and
said its board of directors approved a $1 billion share buyback
program.

Reuters - Fremont General Corp , which
stopped making subprime home loans in March, said an investment
group may pull out of an agreement to inject $80 million to
help insure the savings and loan's survival.

Reuters - German carmaker Volkswagen's
deliveries of commercial vehicles increased 10.8
percent year-on-year in January-September to around 354,000
units, the company said in a statement on Sunday.