MarketWatch shares rise on Dow Jones deal
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Shares of MarketWatch Inc. rose nearly 7% after Dow Jones &amp; Co. announced it would buy the parent of financial news site CBS MarketWatch for $519 million in cash.
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NEW YORK - Investors shrugged off rising crude futures Wednesday to capture well-priced shares, sending the Nasdaq composite index up 1.6 percent ahead of Google Inc.'s much-anticipated initial public offering of stock.    In afternoon trading, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 67.10, or 0.7 percent, to 10,039.93...
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Dow Jones is set to announce that it will pay about $486 million for the parent company of CBS MarketWatch, a business news site.
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European stocks rose Wednesday, shaking off declines on U.S. stock indexes the previous day, and investors on Wall Street drove up the Dow Jones industrial average by 100 points in the hunt for bargain stocks.
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Stocks rose today as investors digested a jump in the second-quarter gross domestic product and kept a close eye on lower oil prices.
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Stocks rose in early trading Monday after a fresh round of buyout news offered evidence that Wall Street's penchant for dealmaking hasn't disappeared.
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Pursuing a &quot;best of both worlds&quot; online content strategy, media giant Dow Jones &amp; Company (Quote, Chart) will buy business news provider MarketWatch (Quote, Chart) for approximately $519 million in cash, the companies announced today.
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The Dow industrials rose to a record high on Monday amid a broad advance by stocks as takeover deals totaling more than $77 billion suggested to investors that equities could still gain further.
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Stocks rose on Monday, sending the Nasdaq up more than 1 percent, as corporate takeovers and lower crude oil prices boosted investor optimism, overshadowing a sell-off in Pfizer Inc.
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U.S. stocks rose on Monday as a flurry of corporate deal news fueled optimism about the economic outlook, but caution a day before the Federal Reserve's final meeting of the year limited a broader market advance.
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Stocks jumped on Tuesday, led by gains in the Dow industrials as talk that aluminum maker Alcoa Inc.  may be a takeover target bolstered optimism about deals and energy shares gained with a rebound in oil prices.
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Stocks rose on Tuesday, helped by another round of proposed takeovers and a report showing a stronger-than-expected reading in consumer confidence.
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Dow Jones will buy MarketWatch for about $519 million, a deal that would end a month-long bidding war for the online financial news and information provider.
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Stocks moved moderately higher Friday after Wall Street set aside some anxiety over news that the economy lost jobs last month and focused on Microsoft Corp.'s bid for Internet company Yahoo Inc. and a possible rescue plan for the troubled bond insurance sector.
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The stock market barreled higher yesterday, sending the Dow Jones industrials to a 3-year high as two Wall Street firms reported better-than-expected earnings and a brokerage gave tech bellwether Intel Corp. a ratings upgrade.
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U.S. stocks rose on Monday after  software maker PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O accepted rival Oracle  Corp.'s ORCL.O buyout offer and a government report showed  better-than-expected retail sales in November, signaling an  uptick in consumer spending.
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Dow Jones & Co., the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, will buy MarketWatch Inc. for about $519 million in a deal that would end a monthlong bidding war for the online financial news and information provider.