Investment News Briefs

With our investment news briefs, Money Morning provides investors with a quick overview of the most important investing news stories from all around the world.

Retail Sales Slump; U.K. Government Fines UBS $13.3 Million; Exxon and Shell Sign Iraq Oil Contract; BOE Expands Quantitative Easing; FBI Arrests 14 in Galleon Probe; Petrobras Finds Gas in Peru; Shares of Ancestry.com Soar on IPO; Mortgage Rates Drop Below 5%