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The Day Ahead: Apple Asks For Leap Of Faith, Wall Street Balks
News The company missed consensus estimates with fourth quarter earnings of 30 cents a share, detailed inventory problems, predicted a slight profit in what's supposed to be a seasonally strong December quarter and forecasted flat revenue for fiscal 2001.
[October 19, 2000, 13:01]
Rate Worries Pound FTSE, Nasdaq, Dow
News Profit taking and interest-rate worries hammered Wall Street Tuesday as the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 360 points to 10,997.93 and the Nasdaq composite shed 230 points to close at 3,901.20, its worst single-day performance in history.
[January 5, 2000, 9:46]
Simplistic
Talkback The point of taking some of the profit as dividend was meant as an incentive to those who choose to take the risk of going it alone. Actually, many of us choose to keep out of this all together by not taking any dividend and taking it through PAYE...
[January 22, 2007, 15:52]
IBM Mid-sized Manufacturers Executive Kit: Manufacturing Process Innovation For Profitability
White Papers Today, manufacturers must innovate their processes to turn products quickly and turn a profit. But innovation requires a management culture that supports out-of-the-box thinking, and risk taking to develop long-term success.
[February 18, 2008, 23:00]
Corel Plunges After Profit Warning
News Duncan Stewart, fund manager at Tera Capital, told Reuters recently that Corel's history and profit taking led to Corel's recent pullback. Corel, which recently hit a 52-week high of 44 1/8 fuelled by Linux hype, fell 4 13/16 to 13 3/4, or 25...
[December 23, 1999, 10:49]
The Value Of Strategic And Business Planning In Offering New Services
White Papers This does not mean they should do so without making a profit. Municipal utilities should be run as businesses and as a business, should earn a reasonable rate of return on taking on the risk for providing service.
[October 18, 2005, 0:00]
Airline Loyalty: A New Perspective
White Papers This paper outlines some first steps that airlines can take to continue maximizing the profit contribution of these programs, even in the light of new challenges faced by the industry. Airlines have succeeded in taking simple frequency based...
[September 7, 2006, 0:00]
Identity Management As A Cybersecurity Case Study
White Papers However, the players involved in ensuring a secure cyberspace - that is, governments and private enterprises - may have different interests: One government's preferred order is anathema to another, and a business must strive to profit its own...
[March 7, 2006, 23:00]
Microsoft Warns Of Q2 Profit Shortfall
News Software giant Microsoft on Thursday joined the growing list of tech companies issuing profit warnings. People were afraid of a profit warning and had been lowering their guidance accordingly," said analyst Laura Lederman at William Blair.
[December 15, 2000, 7:56]
Google Sails Past Profit Target
News Internet leader Google said on Thursday it saw no impact from a weakening US economy as it posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit and waved off fears of an online advertising slump. Excluding one-time items and stock option expenses, profit...
[April 18, 2008, 8:27]
UK IT Firms Set Off Profit Alarms
News Delays in contract negotiations have caused profit warnings to triple this year for UK software and computer services companies, according to new figures from Ernst & Young. It is taking much longer than expected for companies to sign contracts.
[April 10, 2006, 16:45]
Association Utilizes Microsoft's .NET Framework To Enhance Online Systems To Improve Customer Experience And Reduce Administrative Costs
White Papers The Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association (AAIA) is a non-profit trade association whose 2,650 member companies conduct business worldwide in the motor vehicle aftermarket industry. Therefore AAIA will be taking advantage of .NET's ability to...
[July 7, 2006, 0:00]
Borland Makes Another Profit
News He added that the company expected to maintain its gross profit margins, which rose to 85 percent from 80 percent in the same quarter a year ago. We're not taking anything for granted yet. "We're on track with our plan, but a turnaround takes six...
[October 22, 1997, 12:59]
Amstrad E-m@iler Makes A Profit
News A steep price cut and new revenue-generating features have combined to bring Amserve, the unit of Amstrad which sells the e-m@iler Web/email device, into profit for the first time, the company said on Thursday.
[February 19, 2004, 12:40]
Tech Stocks Take Another Battering
News Profit warnings, profit taking and nagging concerns about interest rates were mainly responsible for the tech sector's decline. Lucent lost 3 3/8 to 69 but could lose even more ground after issuing a first-quarter profit warning after the bell.
[January 7, 2000, 11:15]
Outsourced IT Doesn't Cut It For Councils
Talkback I know from my economics modules at university the issue is complicated but at the end of the day, adding a profit taking element to any service will only take money out of the service, not put money into it (over time), 'efficiency' savings and...
[May 24, 2005, 14:52]
Corel Sinks Deeper In The Red
News Duncan Stewart, fund manager at Tera Capital, told Reuters recently that Corel's history and profit taking led to Corel's recent pullback. First Call was expecting a profit of 24 cents a share. Wall Street was expecting a profit of 12 cents a share.
[December 23, 1999, 6:08]
US Report: IBM Beats Estimates In 3Q
News Shares of IBM raced to a 52-week high Monday prior to giving way to profit taking. For the quarter, IBM had gross profit margins of 37.2 percent, compared with 38.2 percent a year ago. In the same quarter a year ago, IBM reported earnings of $1.4bn...
[October 21, 1998, 10:15]
A Year Ago: IBM Beats Estimates In 3Q
News Shares of IBM raced to a 52-week high Monday prior to giving way to profit taking. For the quarter, IBM had gross profit margins of 37.2 percent, compared with 38.2 percent a year ago. IBM reported Tuesday third quarter earnings of $1.5bn (.91bn...
[October 21, 1999, 9:00]
The Day Ahead: Amid Slowdown, Oracle Trumps Microsoft
News To no one's surprise, Microsoft issued a profit warning for its fiscal second quarter. The software giant, which rarely issues profit warnings, also lowered its 2001 estimates. The economy is slowing, and Microsoft is taking a hit on sluggish...
[December 15, 2000, 14:18]
