Mark Brooks

Traders also sold the euro as industrial orders fell in Germany.

Benchmark oil fell 29 cents to $92.90 a barrel in New York.

In the wider 27-nation European Union, the world's largest economic bloc with 500 million people, unemployment broke the 26 million mark for the first time.

The euro rose to $1.3112 in late trading from $1.3072 late Friday.

The cars and trucks, which are far quieter than conventional gasoline or diesel-powered vehicles, don't make enough noise at low speeds to warn walkers, bicyclists, and the visually impaired, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Monday in a statement.

Lego said the kit will go on sale in the second half of the year. It was announced as the International CES gadget show begins in Las Vegas this week.

Transocean owned the rig that sank after an explosion killed 11 workers and spawned the spill.

The two sides might reach a mutual agreement before the matter becomes a crisis in March, or possibly late February.

Between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31 retailers added 728,300 jobs, 10.3 percent more than the same three-month period in 2011, when merchants added 660,200 extra workers, according to Chicago-based Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Gasoline now averages $3.30 a gallon, up about half a penny since Jan. 1.

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of one of the world's biggest Internet companies, is the highest-profile U.S. executive to visit North Korea — a country with notoriously restrictive online policies — since Kim Jong Un took power a year ago.

The demonstration is the latest of several, described as a "white tide" because of the color of the medical scrubs many protesters wear.

Gold lost $25.70 to settle at $1,648.90 an ounce Friday.

Friday's request from Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski comes as U.S. coal exports hit a record of an estimated 124 million tons last year.

Izik, whose name is a riff on 17th-century scientist Isaac Newton, debuted Friday with the release of free apps for the iPad and Android tablets.

Attorney Barry Levine told The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times that the Securities and Exchange Commission told him Thursday that his client, David Sokol, won't be charged.

The Labor Department says employers added 155,000 jobs last month after adding 161,000 in November.

AMR is studying whether to exit bankruptcy protection on its own or merge while still in Chapter 11 with its smaller rival.

The actor, who was dubbed "McDreamy" by fans of the hospital drama while his co-star was affectionately called "McSteamy," won a bankruptcy auction to buy Tully's Coffee, a small coffee chain based in Seattle.

Crude supplies dropped by 11.1 million barrels, or 3 percent, to 359.9 million barrels, which is 9.2 percent above year-ago levels, the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report.