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For the second day in a row, blue-chip stocks are suffering a triple-digit loss. Here's why.
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Investors' reaction to IBM earnings could move market - USA Today
USA TODAY NEW YORK -- Aluminum giant Alcoa gets a lot of ink for kicking off earnings season each quarter and setting the tone for the stock market. But it is actually IBM's results -- and its stock's reaction -- that determine the short-term direction of the broader stock ... Verizon shines while US stocks slumpFinancial Times IBM is key indicator for markets during earnings season: BespokeMarketWatch (blog) Wall St sinks further, uptrend in perilFirstpost MSN Money -Yahoo! News -WRAL.com all 8 news articles » |
Disappointing trading revenue numbers contribute to a 4% drop in the bank’s share price.
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Boeing Plans to Cut 1700 Engineer Jobs Amid Gap in Work
Bloomberg Boeing Co. (BA) said it will reduce its engineering workforce by as many as 1,700 positions this year, adding to cuts of as many as 2,300 machinists, amid a gap in work on new plane models. Some of the engineering cuts will be mitigated through attrition and ... Boeing to cut 1700 engineering jobsChicago Tribune Boeing sending out first wave of layoff notices FridayMyNorthwest.com Report: Boeing to lay off as many as 700 engineersQ13 FOX KING5.com -HeraldNet -StreetInsider.com (subscription) all 7 news articles » |
Apple's (AAPL) shifting product release cycle has created a high degree of investor uncertainty within the quarterly biased tradition of Wall Street. For a company that attracts more product release hype than any other in the history of planet earth, this shifting product release calendar has caused investors and analysts to be mislead regarding the true state of Apple's financial health. It's a phenomenon unique to Apple because no other company elicits the scope of product release volatility like Apple does. Especially in the most recent upgrade cycle to iPhone 5 in which Apple sold 47.8 million units in the holiday quarter, Apple has demonstrated a one-of-a-kind ability to generate product release hype that remains the envy of all its competition.
Unfortunately for investors, this recent round of hype has not translated into stock returns. The shifting of the product release calendar and its uncertain effect on year over year
Unfortunately for investors, this recent round of hype has not translated into stock returns. The shifting of the product release calendar and its uncertain effect on year over year
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein was leaving the company, as it struggles with sharply declining personal computer sales and a lukewarm reception for its new Windows 8 operating system.
IBM's first-quarter profits were up from a year ago, but fell a nickel short of expectations on a per-share basis and the stock was slammed in after-hours trading.
Big Blue Battered: IBM Falls After Missing Earnings Estimates
Forbes IBM IBM's first-quarter profits were up from a year ago, but fell a nickel short of expectations on a per-share basis and the stock was slammed in after-hours trading. Big Blue booked net operating income of $3.4 billion, up 3% from the prior year, despite a 5% ... IBM Corporate Earnings Face Revenue Decline, To Pressure DJIA24/7 Wall St. IBM Reports 2013 First-Quarter ResultsMarketWatch (press release) IBM comes up short of Q1 2013 estimates with $23.4B in revenue, EPS of $3.00 ...The Next Web all 9 news articles » |
(Reuters) - IBM Corp , the world's largest technology services company, reported an increase in first-quarter earnings, but missed estimates due to the depreciation of the Japanese yen.
Microsoft's fiscal third-quarter earnings rose 19% as the software giant's core Windows division reported higher sales, and the company also said Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein will leave at the end of the fiscal year.
Sales are up, but aren't quite what analysts expected
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Google's first-quarter profit improved 16% as the search giant saw strong revenue growth in its core advertising business.
Mobile continues to be a problem for Google, as the company struggles with how to make money off mobile ads and its Motorola smartphone unit. But the company's first-quarter results still pleased Wall Street.
Is Google getting the hang of mobile advertising? The search giant's ad prices declined again in the first quarter, but only about 4% from the fourth quarter and from a year ago--a markedly lesser rate than previous quarters.
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U.S. stocks fall Thursday as investors react to a wave of earnings, including disappointing results from EBay and UnitedHealth Group.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Google Inc. on Thursday reported a first-quarter profit of $3.35 billion, or $9.94 a share, compared with a profit of $2.89 billion, or $8.75 a share, for the year-earlier period. Adjusted revenue, minus traffic acquisition costs, was $11.01 billion, compared with $8.14 billion in the same quarter the previous year. Adjusted profit was $11.58 a share. Analysts polled by FactSet on average were expecting the Mountain View, Calif.-based company to report a profit of $10.65 a share, on revenue of $11.12 billion.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Financial stocks closed down on Thursday, led by a 5.4% drop by Morgan Stanley shares after the bank reported first-quarter earnings. The Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund , which tracks financial stocks in the S&P 500 , closed down more than 1%. Bank of America Corp. was down 2.22%, making it the second biggest loser in the Dow Jones Industrial Average . Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC was down 3.28%, Barclays PLC was down 2.64% and Credit Suisse was down 2%. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. were down 1.42% at close.
Microsoft Corp. rose 1% after hours while International Business Machines Corp. lost nearly 4% at the start of a heavy session of after-hours tech earnings.
