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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday's session are Walt Disney Co., Yum Brands Inc., Anadarko Petroleum and Spansion Inc. document.write(''); EARNINGSWATCH Investors gloomy about week ahead Brazil, Mexico extend losses Chicago Bridge & Iron terminates CEO, COO; cancels outlook Energy stocks close at lows, po ...

By Alexandria Sage LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Internet retailer Amazon.com (AMZN.O: Quote, Profile, Research) left Wall Street puzzling over its strategy and wondering if its long-term investments would pay off. Investors punished Amazon's stock on Friday, sending shares down more than 10 percent after disappointing earnings, and some on Wall Street said they craved more information than what Amaz ...

By Glenn Somerville WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in 4-1/2 years in January as employers hired 193,000 new workers, the government said on Friday in a report revising up job growth for the preceding five months. The jobless rate dropped to 4.7 percent from 4.9 percent in December, the Labour Department said. The closely watched report reflected a rel ...

By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Online video game playing is growing up. A new generation of game consoles is ushering in online features that promise to make playing with others over the Internet easier and more compelling than sitting on the couch and playing solo or with a friend. Eyeing a much larger market, console makers are stealing a page or two from the PC gaming playbook. Hard-core PC game enthusiasts spend a fortune "tricking out" their machines with lightning ...

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Technology shares were in focus Friday after upbeat earnings from electronics giant Matsushita and as trading resumed in tech-heavy Taiwan after the Lunar New Year. Taiwan's Weighted Index shrugged off overnight weakness on Wall Street to rise 0.96% to 6,594.60. In Thailand, traders dismissed political friction as a storm in a tea cup, and the SET Index added 0.8% to  ...

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Latin America's major financial markets extended losses Friday as fears of further interest-rate hikes soured sentiment on Wall Street, and depressed markets elsewhere in the region. document.write(''); EARNINGSWATCH Chicago Bridge & Iron terminates CEO, COO; cancels outlook Energy stocks close at lows, post losses for the week Wendy's swings to p ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The chief financial officer of Spansion Inc. resigned Friday as the chipmaker's board approved a new management structure.   MARKETWATCH TOP NEWS Dollar gets a lift from Jan. unemployment report U.S. stocks end lower; post weekly loss on rate worries Gateway slumps 15%; sales prove a disappointment Amazon shares fall 10% as sales, outl ...

The new vaccine, Rotateq, is an oral liquid designed to keep young children from becoming seriously ill from a microbe called rotavirus that infects most by age 5. Rotavirus is a major killer of children in developing countries, but deaths are rare in the United States. Analysts forecast peak annual sales of Rotateq will top $500 million. An earlier oral rotavirus vaccine sold by Wyeth was pulled from the market in 1999 after it was linked to a rare, life-threatening type of bowel obstruct ...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks ended lower Friday, capping a week of losses for the market after the Federal Reserve left open the possibility of further interest-rate increases, with a solid January jobs report only serving to build the case for higher rates. Disappointing earnings from a number of high-profile companies including Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc also weighed on sentiment ...