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Stocks are skidding Tuesday morning, putting the market back into the red for the year, as weak results from retailers and mounting losses for big technology companies compound the market's losses from the day before.

North Dakota regulators are backing away from targets for capturing the natural gas produced from oil drilling.

___ Tech giants plunge again, pushing market into red for year NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks skidded again Tuesday as weak results from retailers and mounting losses for big technology companies pushed the market back into the red for the year.

The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 9:35 a.m.

The special agent in charge of the FBI's Richmond division is retiring from the bureau and going to work for Virginia's largest electric utility.

Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund are into their final round of talks over an $8 billion bailout package Islamabad seeks from the international lending agency to overcome the country's economic woes.

China's president will visit the Philippines for the first time in a high point of a love-hate relationship with an American treaty ally with offers of infrastructure loans and new accords to prevent clashes and possibly explore for oil and gas in the disputed South China Sea.

Asian stocks slid Tuesday after tech losses dragged down Wall Street and Nissan's chairman was arrested on charges of financial misconduct.

Environmental groups say 10 utility companies are responsible for the majority of premature deaths caused by emissions from coal-fired power plants in Europe.

A lawmaker says disgruntled police and prison guards have stormed Papua New Guinea's Parliament in a pay dispute that stemmed from an international summit hosted by the South Pacific island nation last weekend.

Renewed losses for technology companies are taking U.S. stock indexes slightly lower Monday morning.

The North Carolina Utilities Commission has approved the proposed merger of troubled South Carolina utility SCANA with Dominion Energy.

Brazil's president-elect is appointing a pro-market reformer to lead the state oil company Petrobras.

French drivers are blocking oil depots as they try to keep up pressure on the government to abandon fuel tax hikes.

General Electric is shuffling leadership at its power unit as it moves to split the division in its ongoing effort to slim down operations.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are in Istanbul to mark the completion of a key phase in a natural gas pipeline.

Rice, the company’s former vice chairman who retired in 2017, will return as chairman of GE Gas Power to guide the division’s overall strategy.

Asian shares were mostly higher Monday after a buying spree on Wall Street kept up investor optimism into a new week, despite continuing worries about trade tensions.