The upcoming November employment report is expected to show a loss of another 350,000 jobs, according to analysts surveyed by MarketWatch. A decrease of 350,000 would be the largest drop since May 1980, when more than 400,000 jobs were shed.

GM is trying to lure some debtholders into exchanging debt for equity as the auto maker works to craft a viable plan to give Congress.

As China's quasi-market economy faces potentially the worst decline in two decades, the capacity of business to cope with a cyclical downturn is being brought sharply into focus. One example: the trend of executive disappearances.

Tension in Bangkok ratchets higher as more pro-government protestors arrive in Bangkok and explosions are reported across the area.