Tech Winners & Losers: Electronic Arts

Tech stocks were flat, outperforming the broader market, as investors grappled with bad news from financial firms and their impact on the economy.

Video-game publisher Electronic Arts(ERTS Quote) added 98 cents, or 2.1%, to $48.50 following a report by Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia that initial checks show sales growth of the company's newly released Madden NFL 09 game is up by the "low-single-digits" from a year ago. That's see as a positive trend because pre-orders for the game were down from the year before. EA had disclosed weaker-than-expected pre-orders during the company's earnings report last month, but didn't reveal how much they were down.

AMD(AMD Quote) gained 14 cents, or 2.7%, to $5.25 after introduced its latest ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card. The company billed it as the "world's fastest" graphics card. ...