AP - Wall Street headed toward a higher open Tuesday, following a now-familiar pattern of snapping back after a huge selloff. Investors, while looking for bargains, are focusing on the health of retailers and automakers.

AP - Detroit's automakers, making a second bid for $25 billion in funding, are presenting Congress with plans Tuesday to restructure their ailing companies and provide assurances that the funding will help them survive and thrive.

Reuters - Stock index futures rose on Tuesday as investors followed Monday's market tumble with a search for beaten-down shares, and hopes for an auto industry bailout helped temper concerns over the deepening recession.

Reuters - General Electric Co expects to report a fourth-quarter profit of 50 cents to 52 cents per share, at the low end of its prior guidance of 50 cents to 65 cents per share, the U.S. conglomerate said on Tuesday.