HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Asian indexes were mostly higher Tuesday, with Hong Kong stocks rebounding strongly as investors lapped up shares of China Mobile after its better than expected earnings report.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Wall Street leaders were urged recently by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to work together on a solution to the credit crisis.
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Some 265,000 families in a 150-mile stretch between Malibu and the Mexican border evacuated their homes Monday as overwhelmed firefighters battled through the night against 14 wind-driven wildfires that have scorched at least 310 square miles in drought-stricken Southern California.
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (MarketWatch) -- The drop in the price of oil for November delivery from just over $90 a barrel on Friday to less than $87 on Monday could be the start of something big.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Boeing Co. is expected Wednesday to report a 39% rise in profit after delivering more of its 737 and 747 passenger aircraft, while analysts anticipate defense sales will slip from last year.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Online scammers have used data lifted from Salesforce.com Inc. to help them try to dupe computer users with fraudulent emails, according to a pair of reports.
SAN DIEGO (MarketWatch) -- Tales from the land of tech: You might say that Intersil Chief Executive Rich Beyer opened the floodgates of fear in July when he uttered the words "double-booking" on his company's second-quarter earnings call.
