BP takes a beating: but investors warming up to company's shares

While the people who run BP may be the most loathed Britons since Jack the Ripper, some investors are warming to the company's beaten-down shares…

U.S. stocks' pullback reaches 15% on key indexes

After Monday’s decline, the average New York Stock Exchange stock now is down 15.7% from its April peak, as measured by the NYSE composite index. The index is down 4.1% just since the end of May.