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Yahoo! Moment for Bartz as Q4 09 Revenue Rises

Continuing the trend of positive Q4 results from Dupont and Google earlier in the week, Yahoo! (YHOO) today announced their financial figures for Q4 and the year 2009. Much to the joy of the investors and the relief of CEO Carol Bartz the numbers beat expectations by quite a good margin and restored a positive outlook for the new year.

The Sunnyvale, California based internet company reversed the direction of its revenue earnings from its southward trip for the past year and a half by posting a quarter to quarter gain of 10 percent or 1.73bn. The impressive results could not however prevent the drop in revenue for the same period of 2008. The revenue dropped 4 percent compared to Q4 08. The resulting profit of $153m will mean earnings of 15 cents per share beating the Wall Street analysts projection of 11cents per share. Looking at the operational side Yahoo! posted a $119m income for Q4 2009 compared to a loss of  $278m for the same period of 2008. The numbers for the year 2009 also seemed promising as the annual net profit rose 43 percent to 598 million dollars while annual revenue fell 10 percent to 6.46 billion dollars.

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Housing Numbers Present Grim Situation

The National Association Of Realtors today released their Existing Home Sales Report for December, simultaneously ripping apart the curtain of hope for a near term economic recovery. Existing home sales tumbled to 5.45 million annual rate, an abysmal fall of 16.8%, the highest, since the last 40 years. The prices registered a small annual increase (.01%) for single family homes, the first, in the past 38 months.

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Analysts explain, that buyers who rushed to meet the original November deadline to take advantage of a $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers caused a surge in sales earlier in the year. In fact, sales went up 28 percent in the three months to November. Congress extended the tax credit until April 30 and expanded it to more potential buyers, raising hopes  that sales will pick up again during the spring buying season. “The market is going through a period of swings driven by the tax credit,” NAR economist Lawrence Yun said. “We’ll likely have another surge in the spring as home buyers take advantage of the extended and expanded tax credit.” (more…)

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Technology Firms Lead Bull Run

It was another good day for the markets. With Google, IBM and Goldman Sachs all declaring better than expected results for the third quarter. Results for Citi Group and AMD were not as impressive as the other three but were encouraging to say the least. The good news pushed the Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) up by 47 points for its highest close of 2009. Nasdaq and S&P 500 were up by 0.05 and 2.14 percent respectively.

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Dell Gets Ace(r)d

The winds of change are picking up in the global PC market and the only one caught at the wrong end of the draft seems to be Dell Inc. After being displaced from its perch on the top in 2006 by HP, its now Acer’s turn to zip by and push them to third place in the global PC market as per two separate reports by Gartner and IDC.

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The Silver Lining in Intel’s Cloud

intel core i7 logo 246x300  The Silver Lining in Intel’s CloudIntel Corp has released its financial figures for the July-September quarter posting a 7.8 % decline in profits. Despite sales turning southwards the organization beat the Wall Street’s forecast. That is not the only upside here though, Paul Otellini, Intel CEO has said that its gross profit margins for the final quarter are expected to be 62 percent of revenue, with a possible variation of about three percent in either direction. That translates to sales figures in the range of $9.7 billion to $10.5 billion.

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