NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock futures pointed to a sharply lower open as investors fretted over disappointing earnings from companies like Amazon.com and more trouble in overseas markets.

GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi tried to put a positive spin Friday on the first face-to-face meetings in three years between Syria's warring sides, suggesting they reconvene Feb. 10 for a fresh attempt at bridging the chasm between them.

BEIRUT (AP) — Fighting in Syria killed nearly 1,900 people during the week of U.N.-hosted peace talks in Switzerland, activists said Friday. The death toll indicates that violence barely paused as the warring parties met but struck uncompromising stances, failing to reach any agreements that could help resolve the conflict.

SEATTLE (AP) — Amanda Knox said Friday she will fight the reinstated guilty verdict against her and an ex-boyfriend in the 2007 slaying of a British roommate in Italy and vowed to "never go willingly" to face her fate in that country's judicial system .

BERLIN (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry has made clear that the United States takes German anger over the NSA spying revelations seriously, and insists the two countries can put the episode behind them.

David Lutz of Stifel Nicolaus on why this month’s stock selloff is overdone

A big expansion at a Kentucky plant signals good news for the U.S. economy. “Trucks are really tied to the underlying growth of the economy,” says Joe Hinrichs, president of the Americas for Ford.

Honda Motor Co warned auto demand is cooling in emerging markets and especially Southeast Asia, but Japan’s third-biggest carmaker remained upbeat about its prospects and said it aims to sell a record 4.5 million vehicles or more in 2014. Honda said new, smaller models would help it to maintain strong sales growth in some key […]

Emerging market stresses left world shares facing their first monthly losses since August on Friday, as euro zone inflation data likely to keep the pressure for rate cuts on the ECB pegged the euro near a two-month low. Eurostat’s first reading of January inflation due at 1000 GMT alongside unemployment figures, is forecast to come […]

NEW YORK/SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is likely to appoint its cloud-computing head, Satya Nadella, as its next chief executive, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday, as the board concludes a five-month search for a tech-savvy heavy-hitter to lead the world’s largest software company. As part of the move, co-founder Bill Gates […]