Oil spill

LONDON - Popular social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook have lit up with outrage and condemnation over embattled British Petroleum (BP) CEO Tony Hayward taking a break to attend a posh yacht race in England, even as the Gulf of Mexico oil spill shows no signs of abating.

NEW YORK - U.S. stocks looked to open higher Tuesday but a weaker-than-expected earnings report from electronics chain Best Buy Co.

Fed moves closer to new action to help economy WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Reserve, meeting for the last time before an election that hinges on the weak economy, edged closer Tuesday to jumping in to help and suggested it's more worried about prices falling than rising.