Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Taiwan chip makers may lift salary freeze next year: report - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 39 days 9 hours 59 minutes ago
The companies imposed a salary freeze this year because of the global financial crisis, the newspaper reported, adding TSMC may make an announcement on the matter at a company event Saturday.

Techs edge lower; Starent soars on Cisco deal - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 41 days 21 hours 57 minutes ago
Cisco was up 0.7%, while Starent, which makes mobile infrastructure equipment, soared more than 17%.

9 more U.S. banks fail; $2.5 billion hit for FDIC - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 23 days 23 hours 23 minutes ago
All nine of the closed banks were owned by an Illinois holding company. See full story.

Earnings season proves precarious for shorts - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 39 days 5 hours 3 minutes ago
"We don't like the risk-reward of being short fundamentally weak companies going into the earnings season, because even if they miss earnings [estimates], investors may look past that and the stock goes up anyway," he said.

Trading on deflation: Supermarket stocks tick up - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 39 days 14 hours 32 minutes ago
It's being called the "re-flation" trade in the grocery sector. Whether or not supermarket stocks continue their upward flight will in many ways depend on deflation trends.

Galleon charges shine harsh light on hedgers - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 28 days 8 hours 33 minutes ago
Because markets trade on information, can the small investor ever hope to keep up with trading giants? Intelligent Investor columnist Jason Zweig says yes, but small investors should think long-term.

Pfizer, Merck may feel pressure from generics - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 39 days 2 hours 22 minutes ago
This earnings season will also mark the end of an era for the industry titans, as both are in the final phases of major mergers that aimed at refueling their drug pipelines and stoking profits. On Oct. 15, Pfizer is slated to complete its $68 billion takeover of rival Wyeth. Merck is expected to close on its $41 billion acquisition of Schering-Plough Corp. by the end of the quarter.

AT&T still riding high with iPhone - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 39 days 2 hours 22 minutes ago
AT&T and Verizon Communications Inc., its main competitor, have largely weather a poor economy because of their sheer size and big lead over rivals in the wireless business. AT&T in particular has benefited greatly from its exclusive rights to sell the Apple iPhone.

Friday's biggest gaining and declining stocks - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 38 days 23 hours 56 minutes ago
Results on Thursday from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. provided more positive news for the battered personal computer industry.

Bank of America, GE, Google, IBM in focus - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 38 days 23 hours 56 minutes ago
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Google beats estimates; shares higher in premarket - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 39 days 11 minutes ago
Excluding special items, the company said earnings for the quarter were $5.89 a share.

Citi's smaller reserve build unnerves investors - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 39 days 14 hours 15 minutes ago
Citi /quotes/comstock/13*!c/quotes/nls/c (C 4.75, -0.25, -5.00%) said its net loan loss reserve build was $802 million in the latest period, down from $3.9 billion in the prior quarter.

Rio Tinto cancels $2.6 billion South Africa project: report - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 39 days 6 hours 52 minutes ago
They declined to be identified because the decision hasn't been made public, Bloomberg said. Rio has sent a termination letter to South African utility Eskom Holdings Ltd., Bloomberg reported the people as saying.

U.S. stock futures edge up after Google results - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 39 days 2 hours 57 minutes ago
S&P 500 futures rose 2.6 points to 1,092.40 and Nasdaq 100 futures added 4.25 points to 1,752.70. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 18 points.