BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Disagreements make a market, where one person's bail-out is another investor's bargain. But when experts disagree, it creates an interesting situation.
The U.S. Energy Department said this week that colder temperatures and higher prices for fuels will force households to pay about 10% more to heat their homes this winter.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Oracle Corp is offering to buy BEA Systems Inc. for $6.7 billion -- a price that the software maker rejected Friday afternoon as one that "significantly undervalues" the company.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures finished at a new front-month record high Friday, after briefly trading above the $84-a-barrel level for the first time ever, after the first decline in U.S. crude supplies in three weeks fueled supply concerns.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- After a day of upheaval, U.S. stocks on Friday headed to close the week with modest weekly gains across the major indexes, with investors heartened by positive economic data that included healthy retail sales in September and in-line results from industrial bellwether General Electric Co.
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Centex Corp. before Friday's opening bell said it expects to take about $1 billion worth of fiscal-second quarter charges to write down land values as home builders' balance sheets continue to shrink.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- General Electric Co. said Friday its quarterly net income rose 14% on strong growth in its transportation, aviation, oil and gas, and in its commercial finance segments.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Love him or hate him, no one should be surprised that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for his fight against global warming.
