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AP – European stock markets were mostly flat Monday as investors shrugged off more sobering news about shaky government finances amid new signs Asia’s economies are pushing ahead with their recovery.

AP – Europe has spooked stock investors. Will it spook shoppers, too?

AFP – Wall Street, still wracked by the eurozone crisis, has a long holiday weekend to recover from a miserable May before facing a packed economic calendar capped by the monthly jobs data.

AP – Stocks closed out their worst month in more than a year by sliding again on more unsettling news about Europe.

AP – Shares of children’s entertainment licensing company 4Kids Entertainment Inc. are being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange because the company’s market capitalization has fallen.

AP – Stocks closed out their worst month in more than a year by sliding again on more unsettling news about Europe.

Reuters – Stocks fell on Friday, capping off their worst month in over a year as a downgrade by Fitch of Spain’s credit rating reignited worries about euro-zone debt issues.

FT.com – Gold looks like a classic investment bubble. Not just any mania, but the best-known bubble of the 20th century: the Dow Jones Industrial Average before it spectacularly blew up in 1929. Since the start of 2006, rises in the gold price have been spookily similar to the Dow’s run up to 1928. Charts of gold soaring also look remarkably like the build-up to the 2008 oil price bubble. And the dotcom boom. …

AP – A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday:

AFP – The leading stock exchange closed fractionally lower on Friday as discouraging US consumer spending raised concerns that the pace of the economic recovery may be slowing.