FT.com - European stock markets were expected to open slightly lower on Friday after losses on Wall Street, but support could come from a fresh wave of merger and acquisition activity.

AP - Google Inc.'s stock will be added to the Standard & Poor's 500 index, a long-anticipated rite of passage that lifted the online search engine leader's recently sagging shares.

AP - Google Inc.'s stock will be added to the Standard & Poor's 500 index, a long-anticipated rite of passage that gave the company's recently slumping shares an immediate boost.

AP - The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. will merge three different electronic stock trading networks including its newly acquired INET platform by July, at least three months ahead of schedule, executives said Thursday.

Playbill - A new chapter for The Carbonell Awards began March 23 when the winners in a new and separate Stock/Roadshow area were announced, to complement the Carbonells, which celebrate resident South Florida productions.

Reuters - Telecommunications developer Tekelec on Thursday said it received a notice from the Nasdaq Stock Market on March 20, indicating possible delisting of the company's stock as it delayed filing of annual results.

Reuters - U.S. stock futures dipped on Thursday after design software maker Adobe Systems Inc. gave a disappointing outlook after hours.

Reuters - The Dow soared to its highest close in nearly 5 years on Wednesday, boosted by gains in shares of industrial companies like Caterpillar Inc. amid hopes that corporate profit growth would stay strong even if the Federal Reserve keeps raising interest rates a bit longer than expected.

Reuters - The member-owned American Stock Exchange plans to become a for-profit company by next year, in preparation for possibly becoming a publicly traded company, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday.

AP - Stocks rose Wednesday on upbeat news from big companies: a patent settlement by Bristol-Myers Squibb, strong earnings from Morgan Stanley and a cost-cutting deal between General Motors Corp., Delphi Corp. and the United Auto Workers. The gains were enough to push the Dow Jones industrial average to a new five-year high.

AP - The Tokyo Stock Exchange, still reeling from a recent computer overload and embarrassing computer glitch, said Wednesday it will spend 62 billion yen ($531.5 million) to strengthen its trading system.

Reuters - Computer graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy Finnish graphics software company Hybrid Graphics Ltd. for an undisclosed amount.

AFP - Microsoft shares suffered after the world's biggest software company said it had again delayed the consumer launch of its latest operating system, Vista.

Denise Royal - AHN Staff Writer Philadelphia, PA (AHN) - The bloc of 12 newspapers being sold by the McClatchy Co. as part of its acquisition of Knight Ridder Inc. will likely be broken up and bought by several buyers. Last week, McClatchy agreed to pay $4.5 billion in cash and stock to...

Reuters - Air Products , an industrial gas supplier, on Wednesday said it might sell some businesses and would buy back $1.5 billion in common stock.

Reuters - Nasdaq futures fell half a percent on Wednesday after Microsoft Corp. announced a delay in the consumer launch of its new Vista operating system, but other stock futures were flat.

AP - Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index opened lower Wednesday on selling in securities house and pharmaceutical issues. The dollar slipped against the yen and euro.

AP - Stocks finished a volatile session lower Tuesday, with a conflicting report on wholesale inflation and questions about the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy creating uncertainty for investors.

Denise Royal - AHN Staff Writer Mountain View, CA (AHN) - Online search engine giant Google Inc. is devoting a section of its Web site to information about the stock market and corporate America, filling a gaping product hole as it continues to battle for Internet traffic with rivals Yahoo...

Reuters - U.S. stocks futures slipped on Tuesday after comments by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave markets no reason to expect a pause in interest-rate hikes and after software maker Oracle Corp. reported lower-than-expected sales.