AP - Mild weather and pre-Christmas discounting helped Britain's retailers survive the holiday season but customers are not likely to keep shopping at the same pace, figures released Tuesday show.

AP - Mild weather and pre-Christmas discounting helped Britain's retailers survive the holiday season but customers are not likely to keep shopping at the same pace, figures released Tuesday show.

Reuters - Government-controlled mortgage giant Fannie Mae, which is at the center of a fight over housing policy, said on Tuesday Chief Executive Michael Williams was stepping down.

Reuters - U.S. securities regulators will question the top U.S. audit watchdog about his budget and policy priorities on Wednesday, in a rare public meeting designed to shed more transparency on the agency that has tightened the screws on the auditing profession over the past year.