Check out a list of U.S. companies, whose stock price is having unusual price changes.

Bear Stearns announced an extra 800 cut in its mortgage employees. The overall number of redundancies has risen to 1,400 – 10% of previous year’s head count.

Despite the rumours yesterday that Deutsche Bank was going to report a massive loss, the bank came out this morning with a surprisingly good set of numbers.

The world’s biggest automaker blames rising costs for the 4th quarter’s loss. How many more to come?

Credit Suisse Group, Switzerland’s second biggest bank, announced that fourth quarter profit fell as much as 72%.

Global market indices have dropped 20%-25% from their recent high averages, in less than one month’s time!

Alliance & Leicester stock was down another 5% today. It has fallen a total of 16% in just one week’s time!

“The most profitable of all airfares in the travel industry, are the trans-Atlantic business-class fares”, claims Global Travel News, and British Airways seems to agree completely.

Societe Generale, France’s second largest bank by market value, uncovers a 4.9 billion euros ($7.1 billion) trading fraud.

The political situation is quite edgy at the moment in Italy. Fears of possible government collapse caused Alitalia’s stock price to fall to 63.25 cents, a dramatic further 9.7 percent fall.

Interesting piece of news… a Merrill Lynch trader, surely after taking a deep breath, thought if-not-now-then-when and sent out a mass email screaming out…the obvious!