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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Tuesday's session are Washington Mutual, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, and Seagate.

As America's housing market has foundered, homeowners who bought into newly rising projects at just the wrong time have found themselves marooned in abandoned developments.

GRANITE BAY, CA (MARKET WIRE) Granite Bancshares, Inc. (OTCBB: GBSI) today reported the Company has restated its earnings for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2007, to reflect an increase in reserves related to real estate development loans.

Frustrated mainland Chinese investors, who have watched the country's main stock market in Shanghai plummet more than 40% since October, have been wondering when their typically hands-on government will move to reverse the fall.

Global equity markets continued to retreat as further evidence of the impact of the financial crisis on corporate profits outweighed slightly better than forecast US retail sales data

TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) With the launch of its Excel India Fund on April 14, 1998; Excel Funds Management Inc ('Excel') established a mandate to become the emerging market authority for investors and industry professionals alike. The vision of Bhim D. Asdhir, Excel Funds President & CEO, this Mississauga based mutual fund company today celebrates their 10th anniversary and the resultant 10 year track record of their flagship fund, now the longest running Canadian mutual fund investing in India.

Wachovia Corp. stunned wall street on Monday with a series of moves to bolster its finances as it copes with its poorly timed purchase of Oakland-based Golden West Financial Corp., parent of World Savings. The moves suggest the bank may have further difficulties with the huge bet it made in the California market. (WB) (WFC)

POMPANO BEACH, FL (MARKET WIRE) Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: CYPW) announced today that it has been awarded the AEI Tech 2008 Award at the Society of Automotive Engineering (SAE) World Congress in Detroit, MI.

The UK will avoid a recession according to the boss of one of Britain's biggest supermarkets. The chief executive of Asda, Andy Bond, told Sky News that his customers are finding it tough. But he ...

WASHINGTON, DC (MARKET WIRE) Money magazine singled out two Hanley Wood consumer Web sites in a recent article on the custom-built home and the value of predrawn house plans. Both ePlans.com and DreamHomeSource.com were cited. These two sites are the only authorized marketers of plans by renowned and award-winning designers Frank Betz, Donald Gardner, Stephen Fuller, William Poole, and Dan Sater. Both sites also feature a collection of house plans by Southern Living.