OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — FBI agents plan a third day of digging Wednesday in suburban Detroit for the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared 38 years ago. Authorities have pursued multiple leads into Hoffa's whereabouts since his disappearance in 1975. He was last seen outside an Oakland County restaurant where he was to meet with a New Jersey Teamsters boss and a Detroit Mafia captain. The latest tip about Hoffa's remains came from reputed Mafia captain Tony Zerilli, who, through his lawyer, said Hoffa was buried beneath a concrete slab in a barn in Oakland Township, north of Detroit. The barn is gone, but FBI agents on Monday starting poring over the field where it used to stand. The search was expected to resume after dawn Wednesday. On Tuesday, authorities used a backhoe to dig and move dirt around in the section of land. Authorities also called in forensic anthropologists from Michigan State University and cadaver dogs from the Michigan State Police. Hoffa's rise in the Teamsters, his 1964 conviction for jury tampering and his presumed murder are Detroit's link to a time when organized crime, public corruption and mob hits held the nation's attention. Over the years, authorities have received various tips, leading the FBI to possible burial sites near and far. In 2003, a backyard swimming pool was dug up 90 miles northwest of Detroit. Seven years ago, a tip from an ailing federal inmate led to a two-week search and excavation at a horse farm in the same region. Last year, soil samples were taken from under the concrete floor of a backyard shed north of the city. And detectives even pulled up floorboards at a Detroit house in 2004. No evidence of Hoffa was found. Other theories have suggested he was entombed in concrete at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, ground up and thrown in a Florida swamp or obliterated in a mob-owned fat-rendering plant. Zerilli, now 85, was in prison for organized crime when Hoffa disappeared. But he told New York TV station WNBC in January that he was informed about Hoffa's whereabouts after his release. His attorney, David Chasnick, said Zerilli is "intimately involved" with people who know where the body is buried. Details are in a manuscript Zerilli is selling online.

LONDON (AP) — Markets were fairly flat-footed ahead of a keenly awaited policy statement from the U.S. Federal Reserve. The central bank wraps up a two-day policy meeting later Wednesday and investors are looking to see if policymakers are moving towards any change in its monetary policy stance. The Fed's strategy of super-low interest rates and easy money over the past few years has been designed to shore up the U.S. economy. It has also helped drive sentiment in the markets. Fears that the Fed might reduce the amount of financial assets it buys have been behind the recent volatility — investors have become accustomed to seeing much of the money generated by the policy ending up in financial markets. The uncertainty was caused by comments made by Fed chairman Ben Bernanke in May and investors will be hoping for a clearer picture at the end of this month's meeting on Wednesday. Though no change is expected on Wednesday, investors will be looking for a clearer line in the accompanying Fed statement and in Bernanke's post-meeting press conference. "If Bernanke hints at tapering in the coming months again today, we could see further selling in the weeks and months ahead," said Craig Erlam, market analyst at Alpari. Ahead of the statement, stocks were solid if unspectacular as fears of an imminent change have been reined in over recent days. U.S. economic data has not been as strong as when Bernanke made his comments of a possible change in May. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was flat at 6,371 while Germany's DAX rose 0.4 percent to 8,260. The CAC-40 in France was steady at 3,861. Wall Street was poised for modest gains, with both Dow futures and the broader S&P 500 futures up 0.2 percent. The dollar was also steady against the euro, which was trading at $1.3391. Earlier in Asia, trading was mixed. While, the Nikkei 225 stock average rose 1.8 percent to 13,245.22, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell 1.1 percent to 20,986.89, and South Korea's KOSPI index shed 0.7 percent to 1,888.31. Worries that the Fed may scale back its bond purchase program have also had an impact on emerging markets in recent weeks. The super-easy monetary policies by central banks in advanced economies like the U.S. prompted money to flow into Asian markets, which could see a reversal when the global central banks unwind their aggressive stimulus programs. As elsewhere, the focus in oil markets is on the Fed too and trading was fairly lackluster ahead of the central bank's statement — the benchmark New York rate was up 49 cents at $98.93 a barrel. ____ Youkyung Lee in Seoul, South Korea contributed to this report.