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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1 Comment »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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Intel 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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