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United Parcel Services (UPS), the world’s largest package delivery company, is slated to release its fourth quarter and fiscal 2011 earnings on January 31, before the opening bell. The current Zacks Consensus Estimates for the fourth quarter and fiscal 2011 are pegged at .26 and .25, respectively, representing substantial year-over-year increase of 16.23% and 19.25%. [...]

(UPS) UPS 2011 Forth Quarter Earnings

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Signs of a resolution to the lingering European debt crisis in the offing and a positive consumer data on the domestic front boosted the benchmarks on Friday. Thus, the markets elongated its weekly gains to the second-straight week and the S&P 500 recorded its longest stretch of weekly gains since October. The Dow Jones Industrial [...]

(EU) Stock Market News for December 12, 2011 – Market News

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Overview The Metals & Mining industry encompasses the extraction (mining) as well as the primary and secondary processing of metals and minerals such as aluminum, gold, precious metals, coal and steel. The industry is oligarchic in structure, with a few producers accounting for the lion’s share of the output. The largest segment of the global [...]

(GM) Metals and Mining Stock Outlook – November 2011 – Industry Outlook

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The announcement of Edwards Lifesciences’ (EW) third quarter fiscal 2011 results as on October 19, 2011, has led analysts to revise their estimates lower for the fourth quarter and fiscal 2011. Third Quarter Highlights Edwards reported an adjusted EPS of 38 cents in the third quarter of fiscal 2011, a penny below the Zacks Consensus Estimate, [...]

(EW) Edwards Lifesciences 2011 Fourth Quarter Earnings Scorecard

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•    Smithfield Foods (NYSE:SFD) posted Q1 EPS of .69, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of .68 per share. Revenues for the quarter rose 6.6% year-over-year to .09 billion •    PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE:PKI) said it will acquire Caliper Life Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ:CALP) in a deal worth about 0 million. Following this development, shares of the genomic-detection [...]

(ACHN) Company News for September 9, 2011 – Corporate Summary

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Wall Street registered its first weekly gains in more than a month as the Fed Chairman’s speech sparked hopes of economic stimulus and assured investors that the US is well on course for long-term economic growth. The tech sector helped push the markets higher on Friday, enabling the markets to post its best weekly gains [...]

(GDP) Stock Market News for August 29, 2011 – Market News

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Markets enjoyed substantive gains as debt related negotiations progressed on either side of the Atlantic, boosting investor sentiment. The Dow fell shy of its best intra-day rally of this year amid positive manufacturing data from the U.S. mid-Atlantic region and stellar corporate results. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) gained 152 points or 1.2% to [...]

(BAC) Stock Market News for July 22, 2011 – Market News

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Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) is slated to report its first-quarter 2011 results on Tuesday, April 19, 2011. The current Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter is .49, representing an estimated 17.28% annualized growth. Fourth Quarter Recap Intuitive reported fourth quarter and fiscal 2010 earnings per share of .02 and .47, respectively, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimates [...]

(ISRG) Intuitive Surgical First Quarter 2011 Earnings Preview

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L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. (LLL) is scheduled to report its first quarter 2011 earnings results before market opens on April 21. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the first quarter is earnings of .82 per share, down from .87 earned in the year-earlier quarter. For full year 2011, the Zacks Consensus Estimate stands at .42 per [...]

(LLL) L-3 Communications Holdings First Quarter 2011 Earnings Preview

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Bullish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will rise over the next six months, improved 1.8 percentage points to 43.6% in the latest AAII Sentiment Survey. This was the third consecutive weekly increase and it puts optimism at a seven-week high. The historical average is 39%. Neutral sentiment, expectations that stock prices will be essentially unchanged [...]

April 7, 2011 – Bullish Sentiment at a 7-Week High – AAII Sentiment Survey

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