Many Wall Street analysts expected Liptruzet could not be approved until this was done.
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Luxury handbag maker Coach, Lockheed Martin and DuPont reported results that were better than analysts expected.
Sprint reported 161, 000 net postpaid additions, short of the more than 200, 000 adds most analysts expected.
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Limited Brands, parent of of Victoria's Secret, reported a 9% gain, topping the 6.1% analysts expected.
Most analysts expected to hear about much more modest gains in the October jobs report.
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Within five years, analysts expected MAN to be earning almost half its revenues in emerging markets.
Sales at stores that offer lower prices for cost-conscious consumers also reported weaker sales than analysts expected.
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Some analysts expected the trend to continue, although not everyone believed that taxes were driving the dynamic.
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Clearly, the 96, 000 jobs the economy added in August was a disappointment, as analysts expected about 130, 000.
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But excluding one-time charges, GM's profit of 45 cents per share was less than half what analysts expected.
At first, many analysts expected that the main constraint on sales would be how many doses MedImmune could make.
That's above Wall Street estimates: Analysts expected a 5.8 percent increase in April, according to a Thomson Reuters poll.
Analysts expected a strong May for the industry after a slightly disappointed April.
That beat the 24 cents per share that analysts expected, according to FactSet.
This set a new record for Apple, but many analysts expected the company to sell twice as many units.
Few investors or analysts expected the bank to meet the targets in 2013.
Another lackluster figure: it shipped just 6 million smartphones in the quarter, while analysts expected closer to 6.9 million.
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Pfizer presented data on the drug that showed that it raised good cholesterol--although by less than some analysts expected.
It still is up 11% since the year began, which is all some analysts expected for the full year.
In other words, Verizon posted EPS of 54 cents, while analysts expected 55.
This is a big turnaround, as analysts expected sales to decline 4% year-over-year.
Analysts expected Wells Fargo, the fourth largest U.S. bank and biggest mortgage lender, to earn 81 cents a share.
Even though the stock dropped 25%, the result that CV Therapeutics got is exactly the one that many analysts expected.
The balance sheet shrinking, which will take place over the next three years, is more than double the amount analysts expected.
Two more patents expire in 2015 and 2017, but analysts expected those would not have kept a Ranbaxy copy of Lipitor off the market.
The figures came in slightly lower than analysts expected, as the company's product mix shifted to cheaper devices like the iPad Mini.
Analysts expected a big month after Nissan cut prices on seven models.
Pfizer posted first-quarter earnings that basically met analysts expectations, with sales a little lighter than analysts expected and profits a little higher.
Analysts expected Coke, a Dow component, to earn 45 cents a share.
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Both retail sales and industrial production were better than most analysts expected, while the leading indicators jumped an impressive 0.6% in September.
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