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Pre-market prices for Nasdaq stock, left, and Facebook stock are shown, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. Facebook stock rose in early trading Wednesday, although still far below the $38 it was priced at before ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:

MOUNTING ANGER: Investors are upset about the initial public offering of Facebook stock last week, which was fumbled by the banks that managed the deal and complicated by technical problems at the Nasdaq stock exchange.

NEW YORK (AP) - Facebook is in talks with the New York Stock Exchange to move its stock from the Nasdaq Stock Market after a botched initial public offering on Friday, according to a person familiar with the matter.

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - Hewlett-Packard says it's laying off 27,000 workers, 8 percent of its work force, as it restructures the business.

NEW YORK (AP) - The price of oil dropped below $90 per barrel Wednesday, the latest milestone in a weekslong decline brought on by uncertainty surrounding economies from Europe to China.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - With just a week to go, fewer than 10 percent of state employees have yet to comply with a rule requiring participation in a cost-savings health program.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - American Eagle may still be spun off to shareholders after the feeder airline for American Airlines emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, its CEO said on Wednesday.

DETROIT (AP) - U.S. safety officials have added the 2012 model year to an investigation of engine fires in the Chevrolet Cruze compact car.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Texas-based independent oil company has admitted that its negligence caused three oil spills in Jefferson Parish bayous. Cedyco Corp. of Houston agreed to pay a $557,000 fine and stop operating in Louisiana as part of ...

HERNANDO, Miss. (AP) - DeSoto County has asked a law firm to explore the county's chances of overturning a federal decision that groups it with Memphis and Crittenden County, Ark., on ozone levels.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Figures on government spending and debt (last six digits are eliminated). The government's fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.

Defense Secretry Leon Panetta testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 23, 2012, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Law of the Sea Convention. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

CHICAGO (AP) - Grains futures mostly fell Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

NEW YORK (AP) - Key currency exchange rates Wednesday, compared with late Tuesday in New York:

Fear of a worsening debt crisis in Europe jolted commodities markets Wednesday. Prices for oil, copper, palladium, cotton and coffee hit the lowest levels in at least a year and, in some cases, even longer.

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - The operator of six IHOP restaurants in Ohio and one in Indiana organized a scheme with the help of some employees to hide profits from IHOP's parent company, federal investigators said Wednesday.

BROAD SELL-OFF: Commodity prices fell broadly on concerns about Europe's ability to control its debt crisis and China's slowdown. Oil, copper, palladium, cotton and coffee hit the lowest level in at least a year, if not longer.

Southwest Airlines Co. promises to pay for $100 million in airport improvements so that it can launch international flights from Houston's Hobby Airport.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - An appeal filed in the California Supreme Court contends that two state appellate court justices owned stock in Boeing Co. while they were involved in deciding whether to reverse a multimillion-dollar award against the firm.

REESEVILLE, Wis. (AP) - Wednesday's Milwaukee Stockyards report:

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Opponents of a Canadian crude oil pipeline have made good on their threat to challenge Nebraska's new pipeline siting law in court.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The government has announced a settlement requiring BP North America Inc. to spend more than $400 million to reduce pollution at an Indiana refinery.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Plenty of Kansas legislators' fingerprints are on the aggressive income tax cuts signed into law this week by conservative Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, including those of some GOP moderates now describing it as a budget crisis ...

Tensions over Europe's financial problems resulted in another rush of money into Treasury securities, sending yields lower.