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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks plunged Friday afternoon, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average turning negative for 2006, after oil prices hit a four-month high and General Electric Co. and Citigroup Inc. disappointed with their fourth-quarter earnings. document.write('');   MARKETWATCH TOP NEWS U.S. stocks plunge; Dow gives up gains for the year Oil at four-month h ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Korean and Japanese shares trading in the U.S. Friday suffered some of the region's sharpest losses amid signs of a trade row between Japan and Korea. document.write('');   MARKETWATCH TOP NEWS U.S. stocks plunge; Dow gives up gains for the year Oil at four-month high atop $68, trading up 6% on week Bankruptcy court OKs United Airlines to exi ...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. agriculture authorities are investigating how a shipment of animal parts at risk for mad-cow disease wound up in Japan despite a pledge not to export those parts, the government said Friday. document.write('');   MARKETWATCH TOP NEWS U.S. stocks plunge; Dow gives up gains for the year Oil at four-month high atop $68, trading up 6% on week  ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures closed out the week with a loss of half a percent, after retreating Friday from a quarter-century high.   MARKETWATCH TOP NEWS U.S. stocks plunge; Dow gives up gains for the year Oil at four-month high atop $68, trading up 6% on week Bankruptcy court OKs United Airlines to exit Chapter 11 Japan halts U.S. beef imports; USDA p ...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- German computer chip maker Infineon Technologies on Friday said it's going to post a quarterly loss of $221 million, hurt by weakness in its memory chip division that it may sell this summer. EARNINGSWATCH CORRECT: Builders in focus after starts decline Infineon to post $221M loss on memory chip weakness London markets lower as oil prices, U.S. earnings wei ...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The dollar was pushed a bit lower against its major rivals Friday as the market monitored foreign developments, including new twists with Iran's nuclear strategy and predictions of positive political and monetary changes in Canada. document.write('');   MARKETWATCH TOP NEWS GE profit falls 46%, but meets estimates; sales miss Citigroup's net up 3 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures roared to a four-month high above $68 a barrel Friday, trading more than 6% above the week-ago level on continued concerns about events in Iran and Nigeria and a new terror threat from al-Qaida.   MARKETWATCH TOP NEWS GE profit falls 46%, but meets estimates; sales miss Citigroup's net up 30%; operations miss estimates  ...

By Friedel Rother LONDON (Reuters) - Stocks closed lower on Friday, erasing earlier gains as disappointing U.S. earnings, a surge in oil prices and a fall for mobile phone giant Vodafone hit the market, although drugmaker Shire touched a 4-year high after it settled a patent dispute. Shire ended up 5.9 percent and reached its highest level since December 2001 after it signed a deal with Impax Laboratories that stops Impax selling a generic form of Shire's key Adderall XR treatment before 2010, ...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Fastenal Co. slumped more than 9% early Friday after the construction materials supplier posted a profit in line with what Wall Street analysts were expecting, but disappointing sales trends. EARNINGSWATCH Fastenal slumps as sales trends disappoint Schlumberger at a record high after earnings report Alltel profit dips; revenue rises 21% Infi ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Synaptics Inc. shares tumbled as much as 14% Friday after the maker of computer touchpad technology reported a sharp decline in its second quarter results and amid uncertainty over its relationship with Apple Computer Inc. EARNINGSWATCH Fastenal slumps as sales trends disappoint Schlumberger at a record high after earnings report Alltel profit dips;  ...