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Bellwether companies of the new economy. The tech sector makes up 20 of the s p 500 by the way, tonight both companies, which you likely own through your mutual funds and 401 k s, they failed to wow investors. First, apple. The worlds most valuable company, reported earnings of 1. 85 a share. Revenue was slightly better at 49. 6 billion. Whats the problem . Despite selling more than 47 million iphones in the quarter, yeah you heard me right, it was the companys weak outlook that sent shares initially lower. A lot lower after that report. Josh lipton has the key takeaway from apples results. Th...

Big premarket moves on mixed results from cat, gm and mcdonalds. Global volatility, a common theme. Apple cut its spending forecast by about 1 billion. Well explain why. Qualcomm looking for 1 billion in cost cuts by trimming workforce by 15 . First up caterpillar shares taking a hit on a quarterly miss hurt in part by weakness in mining and construction in brazil and china. Cats lowering their full guidance. Doug oberhelman did talk about it. At some point, the economy will stabilize and business will pick up. It was too whose in 2012 and too slow right now. Somewhere in between is where we w...

Were the two profit drivers in the Second Quarter for General Motors and more importantly for investors, margins were above 10 and for the remainder of this year General Motors expects business to be Even Stronger in part because of pickup trucks in north america. Our pickup share in the Second Quarter was up close to 3 Percentage Points on a year over year basis. So we continue to see a lot of Strong Demand for fullsize pickups, suvs and crossovers. To drive that point home think about this. Year to date General Motors pickup sales, both fullsize and midsize up 25 . Thats one reason why gm is...

Numbers, plus his thoughts on the minimum wage. Well see how those new oreo donuts are selling. Fbi cracking down on chinese corporate espionage. The economic bellwethers, caterpillar, 3m moving lower on the back of earnings. Caterpillar ceo was on squawk box earlier and spoke to the global head winds holding back not only the economy but his own business. For us to drive sales and drive employment we need 2. 5 to 3 . Having said that we are doing an awful lot of things internally to make sure we are strong strengthening our company for the future. Its all those things. Weve got oil price cut ...

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