SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Expectations are relatively tempered for eBay Inc.'s quarterly results next week, as Wall Street seems to be predicting the slowest earnings growth rate seen by the online auction giant in more than a year.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Electronic Arts Inc. said Thursday it has agreed to acquire VG Holding Corp., the closely-held parent of video game developers BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios, in a deal worth $775 million.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Electronic Arts Inc. shares rose Thursday evening, shaking off earlier declines after the company said a planned $620 million acquisition of a video-game holding company will reduce its profit in 2008.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Asian markets are seen opening lower on Friday, following a dramatic reversal on Wall Street with the Dow Jones Industrial Average first making record highs and then plunging more than 100 points.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the top rivals in the semiconductor industry, are both expected to highlight stronger-than-expected demand for personal computers in their financial results next week.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Oil stocks were sent into negative territory Thursday, caught in a pullback that started in the tech sector and raced through most of the market, undoing an early rally a bullish supply data in the process. See Market Snapshot.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Although returns are improving at Fidelity Investments, the Boston-based mutual-funds giant is still seeing many of its biggest portfolios bleeding billions of dollars in assets.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Airline shares accelerated their sell-off Thursday as the broader market turned lower and oil futures shot over $83 a barrel.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The dollar was lower against the euro Thursday despite mostly supportive U.S. economic data, but it also firmed against the yen after the Bank of Japan held its benchmark interest rate steady at 0.5% as expected.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures jumped Thursday, retaking the $83-barrel level to close at the second-highest front-month level ever, after Energy Department inventory data showed an unexpected drawdown in supplies in the latest week.
