There have been some further signs from the Fed that the credit crunch is rapidly coming to an end.

Watch out corporate beancounters. Backdating is back.Or at least the Wall Street Journal thinks it is. The paper which exposed the pervasive illegal practice of rewarding executives with stock options dated to maximize their returns back in 2006 is reviving the scandal. According to a story in today's paper researchers at University of Houston's C.T. Bauer College of Business looked for patterns of similar abuse at more than 4 000 companies and discovered that -- surprise! -- more companies did it than ever got caught for it the first time around.But the world isn't greeting the latest scandal with ...

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Tuesday's session are Citi, H.B. Fuller, Logitech, Motorola, New York Times and United Rentals. Wall Street was closed on Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.