Bell Industries, Inc.

Credit cards gouge consumers ahead of new law - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 17 days 15 hours 6 minutes ago
In fact, some 400 credit cards from the nation's 12 largest bank issuers -- accounting for 90% of the $89.8 billion in outstanding consumer credit -- are still using most of the same tactics that the Federal Reserve has called "unfair or deceptive" and that will be outlawed in fewer than four months, according to a new report from the Pew Health Group's Safe Credit Cards Project.

Wall Street bonuses are up, but there are losers MarketWatch First Take - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 18 days 13 hours 27 minutes ago
But while investment bankers, bond and stock traders and underwriters and can expect between a 15% and 60% bonus increase at the end of 2009, many more can expect steep cuts. Among them:

AIG swings to a third-quarter profit - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 17 days 15 hours 54 minutes ago
AIG

Stocks strike solid opening gains on upbeat data - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 18 days 13 hours 27 minutes ago
Dynegy loss tops $200 million on impairments

Analyst tempers Sunoco outlook on weak results - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 17 days 15 hours 54 minutes ago
SUN

Stocks zigzag as Fed holds rates low
Forbes | 19 days 8 hours 21 minutes ago
NEW YORK -- Stocks are holding on to most of their gains after the Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged and said the pace of economic activity has improved.

Japanese stocks lower in early trade, autos mixed - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 11 days 3 hours 57 minutes ago
Video game sales see another drop in October

Positive economic data fuels energy stocks - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 18 days 13 hours 27 minutes ago
The broad market also provided a lift to the sector, as the S&P 500 /quotes/comstock/21z!i1:in\x (SPX 1,059, +12.72, +1.22%) rose nearly 1.2%.

Mirant Corp. adjusted net income rises - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 17 days 15 hours 32 minutes ago
MIR

Gold inches higher as dollar remains lower - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 17 days 15 hours 6 minutes ago
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures inched higher Friday, with the most active contract trading above $1,090 an ounce, as investors' interest in the precious metal remained higher amid a sliding U.S. dollar. Gold for December delivery rose 0.4% to $1,093.20 an ounce in early North American electronic trading.

ISM's new orders hold clues to energy stocks: Citi - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 21 days 9 hours 11 minutes ago
The Institute for Supply Management said its factory index rose to 55.7% in October from 52.6% the prior month, topping economists' forecasts for a rise to 53%.

FDIC program helps 'unbanked' avoid payday loans Capitol Report - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 13 days 15 hours 29 minutes ago
"We have a high propensity of people in low-income ranges that we offer small-dollar loans to," Escajeda said. "If they meet the criteria that we have set, they can get a loan."

Canadian payrolls fall 43,000 last month - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 17 days 15 hours 5 minutes ago
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Employment in Canada decreased by 43,000 in October, following two months of moderate growth, Statistics Canada said on Friday. The unemployment rate rose to 8.6% from 8.4%. The drop in payrolls was mostly attributable to part-time employees being cut, the government agency said. Full-time employment, which had fallen at a faster rate in the past year, increased slightly.

BASF to close Frankfurt fuel cell business - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 17 days 15 hours 6 minutes ago
DE:BAS

E.U. opens antitrust probe against Thomson Reuters - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 13 days 15 hours ago
"Without the possibility of such mapping, customers may potentially be 'locked'-in to working with Thomson Reuters because replacing RICs [Reuters Instrument Codes] by reconfiguring or by rewriting their software applications can be a long and costly procedure," the commission said.