NEW YORK - BETTER-THAN-EXPECTED earnings at Intel sent investors pouring back into the market on Wednesday, sending stocks higher in early trading.

LONDON - ADMINISTRATORS for the main European unit of bankrupt US investment bank Lehman Brothers Holding Inc. revealed plans on Wednesday to return frozen hedge fund assets to creditors as early as next year.

PARIS - A FALL in goods and services trade by value in major industrialised countries slowed in the first quarter 2009 but the figures still showed a significant setback, the OECD reported on Wednesday.