Business briefs
Uh-oh, EA
Video-game publisher Electronic Arts fell about 5 percent in after-hours trading after the company’s forecasts for the current quarter and fiscal year fell short of analysts’ estimates. The company forecast a first-quarter loss of 40 to 45 cents a share excluding certain items; analysts had estimated a loss of 33 cents
Oil’s well
Exxon Mobil has bumped Walmart from first place among the Fortune 500 top revenue-generating US companies, thanks to rising oil prices.
Camp Sears
Sears, the retailer controlled by Edward Lampert, is starting a clothing line with Bonnier, publisher of Outdoor Life.
Call security!
AT&T plans to start selling home-security services that let users watch camera footage of their home.
Carl’s refined
Billionaire Carl Icahn won the right to buy oil refiner CVR Energy after a majority of shareholders agreed to sell their stakes to him in an offer that values the company at $2.6 billion.

