NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks ended little changed in another day of scarce activity on Tuesday after mixed economic data gave investors little reason to shift their focus from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's speech on Friday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - WellPoint Inc Chief Executive Angela Braly abruptly stepped down from her post on Tuesday following growing investor dissatisfaction with the health insurer's financial performance.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Policymakers should consider what they say before commenting on the euro's future to avoid creating market jitters that could enflame the crisis, European Central Bank Governing Council member Erkki Liikanen was quoted as saying.

(Reuters) - A federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday rejected Residential Capital LLC's proposal to pay as much as $7 million worth of incentive bonuses to 17 senior executives, saying the payout was primarily retentive -- a reward for staying in their jobs.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor may miss its overseas sales target next month because of strikes at its South Korean plants, said a company executive with direct knowledge of the sales.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge has denied a request by Orbitz Worldwide Inc , Sabre Holdings Corp and Travelport Ltd to dismiss a lawsuit filed by American Airlines Inc that accuses the companies of antitrust violations.

TOKYO (Reuters) - The euro, Asian shares and commodities held steady on Wednesday as investors awaited U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's speech to international central bankers gathering in Jackson Hole on Friday and a European Central Bank meeting next week.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's economy is stabilizing slowly as pro-growth government policies gain traction while real estate curbs have surpressed speculation, the head of the country's top planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission, said on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Flight attendants at American Airlines on Sunday accepted the company's last and final contract offer, a decision that will help the bankrupt carrier in its bid to cut labor costs.

PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - The City of London financial district, though diminished by scandals and job cuts, is proving irresistible to fed-up Parisian bankers fleeing France's rising taxes and the feeling that they're not best loved at home.

LONDON (Reuters) - G4S is set to pull out of Pakistan amid an increasingly hostile environment for foreign security companies, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's top four banks extended 70 billion yuan ($11 billion) of new local-currency loans during the first half of August, up from 50 billion yuan in the same period a month earlier, an official newspaper reported on Monday.