MarketWatch - 2 minutes agoSeveral brokers boost price targets on Internet radio firm as mobile ads, new subscriptions drive results and improved outlook.
MarketWatch - 7 minutes agoTreasurys hold onto slight price gains Friday after a report on orders for long-lasting big-ticket items comes in better than expected.
MarketWatch - 11 minutes agoThroughout history, great powers have fallen when politics could not keep pace with economic changes. The U.S. now faces such a challenge with entitlement spending, says Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia University Business School.
MarketWatch - 11 minutes agoU.K.'s FTSE 100 index dropped, with mining firms adding pressure as metals prices turned south and with banks extending the prior day's losses.
MarketWatch - 13 minutes agoGold futures post modest losses on Friday, backing away from a week-high settlement a day prior and seeing little benefit from dollar weakness as investors grow cautious ahead of the long holiday weekend.
MarketWatch - 14 minutes agoEnergy stocks fall Friday, set to end the week with a loss of more than 1%.
MarketWatch - 15 minutes agoEuropean stock markets add to the prior day's sharp losses Friday, tracking stocks lower in the U.S., where investors grew cautious ahead of the long weekend, offsetting better-than-expected economic data.
Briefing.com - 22 minutes agoEuropean markets are now closed; stock markets across Europe performed as follows:
UK's FTSE: -0.6%
Germany's DAX: -0.6%
France's CAC: -0.3%
Spain's IBEX: -1.0%
Portugal's PSI: + 0.7%
Italy's MIB Index: -0.8%
Irish Ovrl Index: + 0.0%
Greece ASE General Index: -0.3%
MarketWatch - 23 minutes agoFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's message to average investors came through loud and clear: I dare you to invest in stocks.
MarketWatch - 25 minutes agoSalesforce.com sparked a slump across the stocks of other corporate software vendors and led the broader tech sector into the red.
