Saturday Night Quarterback says, For the week ahead expect…
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Looking at the big Microsoft earnings beat that wasn’t
Shares of Microsoft (MSFT) closed up 5.31% today after the company announced earnings that beat Wall Street projections. It’s always worth taking a look at what “beating Wall Street projections” actually means in any specific case. Lowering projections and then beating them is an old Wall Street game–and it seems that’s what we’re seeing here.

U.S. stocks pause ahead of earnings
Not terribly surprising that U.S. stocks are meandering in slightly negative territory today after busting out to new all-time highs. We’re about to head into the meat of earnings season and a little profit taking undoubtedly makes sense to many of those who caught the recent run. Tomorrow JPMorgan Chase (JPM) kicks off a run of earnings reports from big banks. IBM leads off technology earnings on July 18

Technology: Buy on the coming(?) dip
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The numbers themselves weren’t pretty. IBM reported a 14th consecutive quarterly drop in revenue. This quarter’s decline to $19.3 billion was 14% from the third quarter of 2014

Update Intel: Where’s the growth?
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Another down quarter for PC companies: Is that setting up growth for Intel in 2016?
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Technology stocks–especially PC stocks–showing revenue weakness just when the U.S. markets want to see growth
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Durable orders drop; Microsoft and Caterpillar disappoint; and the pessimists rule today
Of the two stories fighting for mindshare among investors, today the negative is in the ascendant. The negative story is that a stronger U.S. dollar and slow growth in Europe, Japan, and (relatively) China will hurt earnings at U.S. exporters and cut into U.S. economic growth despite lower oil prices and low interest rates.