Word: microsoft
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...last week, which brought us the first round of earnings for the Quarter That Ate The Economy, the professional investing hordes had actually lowered their sights enough to be pleasantly surprised. And so it was that lackluster news from Yahoo, Microsoft and Motorola sparked a gaudy Thursday rally on all the indexes and some decent Friday follow-though, and the economic news out of Washington fostered hopes that the consumer would see us through...
...then Citigroup kicks things off Monday morning by reporting earnings of 74 cents a share, topping not only expectations but last year's results. Microsoft, reporting for real this week, will be expected to do again what it did last week - make everybody feel good about dominant tech companies - except this time IBM and Intel, and maybe even Apple, will be expected to help...
...numbers on the indexes, it was great news. Earnings reports after Wednesday's bell by Yahoo, Microsoft and Motorola turned Thursday into an almost-giddy celebration by investors. All major indexes started out hot at the bell and kept on chugging, with the Dow up 240 and the NASDAQ up over...
...Microsoft's great news that it had beaten revenue expectations for the quarter was tempered by the fact that it would also record $2.6 billion in investment losses, bringing their 42-cents-a-share earnings back down to 1 cent per share. The stock popped $4, or 6 percent, in Thursday-morning trading...
...weeks to revisit and reindex a website. Even then they'll probably not burrow beyond the first level or two of data, especially if they're in a large corporate or academic site. And a crawler is often stymied by complicated offerings like movies, sound files, images or Microsoft Word documents. Price's remedy: "Learn where to find these invisible resources and build your collection of them." Thankfully and logically, the copious collection in his book is also to be found at www.invisible-web.net...