Aloca’s earnings report sets the market to thinking about slowing growth
It’s not the dimension; it’s the direction that has the financial markets worried this morning after Alcoa (AA) reported third quarter earnings of 3 cents a share—excluding non-recurring items. That was better than the consensus estimate of a flat quarter. The problem, though, is that those better than consensus numbers came with a lower company forecast on global aluminum demand for 2012
Fascinating preview of earnings season with worries over Spain taking stocks down in the a.m. and Apple taking stocks back up in the p.m.
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To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...This earnings season will take place against a background of fear and uncertainty–look for bad news to create big drops that might even be buying opportunities
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Apple reports earnings tomorrow–hope you’re ready for some gaming of the numbers
To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...Alcoa beats first quarter earnings estimates and confirms its forecast for 7% global growth in demand for aluminum
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The current read is that first quarter 2012 earnings for the stocks in the Standard & Poor’s 500 will come in 0.5% below earnings for the first quarter of 2011. That would be the first year-to-year drop in quarterly earnings since the third quarter of 2009.
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