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Dell will highlight a handful of tech company results this week. Also reporting earnings will be food giants Smucker and Campbell Soup, also Marriott and other members of the lodging and hospitality industry, and the first of a long string of results from retailers.

For the better part of two decades, Microsoft (MSFT), Sony (SNE), and Nintendo have been in a relentless battle to develop video games with more realistic graphics, more sophisticated game play, and increased processing power. But in 2006, Kyoto-based Nintendo (NTDOY), which had fallen to third...