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Shares of Petroleo Brasileiro SA are among the top advancers in the Brazilian equity market Friday after the oil giant launches what's poised to be the largest offering of stock on record.

As the week winds down, with stocks having lodged their best pre-Labor Day week in decades, the Dow industrials are back in the black for 2010. Take a look at MarketWatch's top 10 markets, news, feature and personal-finance stories.

Driving somewhere this weekend? If so, there’s good news for you at the gas pump.

Citigroup shares may be expensive at any price, making it the Stupid Investment of the Week.

The dollar pares gains against the Japanese yen and extends losses against the euro Friday, with the greenback pulling back from stronger levels after a report of slowing in the U.S. services sector last month.

Texas’ top law-enforcement official is conducting an antitrust review on whether the company has unfairly hindered the popularity of certain Web sites in its online search service.

The U.S. financial sector finishes on a high note Friday as better-than-expected jobs data fuel hopes the economic recovery isn’t being derailed.

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. shares slip late Friday, giving back a portion of their dayside gains after the videogame publisher swung to a quarterly profit.

Government offices are closed in observance of Labor Day.

U.S. stocks close higher Friday on positive reaction to the latest jobs report.

Toronto Stock Exchange holds onto slight gains to close up 2.2% for the week on the strength of the financial and industrial sectors on a day that both oil and gold prices decline.

Hurricane Earl batters the North Carolina shore and heads further up the East Coast toward Virginia and Massachusetts .

MarketWatch's daily rundown of major gainers and decliners in the U.S. stock market.

U.S. stocks close higher Friday on positive reaction to the latest jobs report.

Despite cautious spending on detergents, shampoos, food and other basics, many fund managers and investment advisers say consumer-staples makers offer investors better protection in a seesawing stock market.

Treasury prices pare losses as the service sector grows less than expected and U.S. nonfarm payrolls in August decline, but not as steep as economists had forecast.

A United Parcel Service 747-400 crashes during takeoff in Dubai with two crew members on board, the shipper says.

The drugstore giant and pharmaceutical provider will swap assets in a deal designed to fill gaps in each other's businesses, but the transaction did little to jolt either company's shares.

The real-estate industry was abuzz with chatter earlier this week about the government offering another home-buyer tax credit, after Shaun Donovan, HUD secretary, said on CNN that it was too early to tell if the credit would make a return.

The black box of Wall Street proprietary trading is still in the dark, despite rumblings that big banks are planning to shutter units or keep them at arm’s-length, writes David Weidner.