The third report on existing home sales published on Friday also beat market expectations.
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Although unemployment rose from 5.3% to 6% in January, new employment data beat market expectations.
In the US, existing housing sales, housing starts, and initial claims and leading economic indicators beat market expectations.
Newscorp's profit beat market expectations, as did rivals Disney and Time Warner, who also reported quarterly results over the previous 24 hours.
The group's profit for the quarter somewhat beat market expectations, and represents a rebound from a sizeable loss in the previous three-month period.
However, in Q3 2011, it will be hard for the company to beat market expectations as the provisions for loan losses slowly begin to climb.
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Investors faced a grim outlook, sending shares of VeriFone Holdings up more than 4% in extended trading on an adjusted quarterly profit that beat market estimates.
In its second-quarter earnings report that beat market expectations on Tuesday, Caterpillar said strong sales outside of North America are being driven by solid economic growth in the developing world, investment in infrastructure almost everywhere, and high commodity prices that encourage its customers to invest in mining equipment.
In its second-quarter earnings report that beat market expectations on Tuesday, Caterpillar (nyse: CAT - news - people ) said strong sales outside of North America are being driven by solid economic growth in the developing world, investment in infrastructure almost everywhere, and high commodity prices that encourage its customers to invest in mining equipment.
On May 26, 2010, when the market cap of Apple beat the market cap of Microsoft, that was the day in history when the right brain finally beat the left brain.
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Even if you can't beat the market, you can beat the tax collector.
Thirdly (and closely related to the second point), under the efficient market hypothesis, no investor should ever be able to beat the market, or the average annual returns that all investors and funds are able to achieve using their best efforts.
In the second half of nearly every bull market you need only own bigger-than-average stocks to beat the market.
The basic argument of the first group is that the stock market is largely efficient so the only way an investment manager can beat the market is through random chance.
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It says that most investors would be better off simply buying a low-cost index fund that holds all the securities in the market rather than using either quantitative models or intuition in an attempt to beat the market.
Whether fighting a military rival or trying to beat the market, we must accept the fog.
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To beat the market is hard for an individual and impossible for investors as a whole.
Finally, even money managers who can beat the market may leave clients lagging behind the market.
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With remorseless logic, he shows it is almost impossible to reliably beat the market.
There are plenty of people who, like Rajaratnam, try to beat the market averages.
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And then there was a non-overlapping, a 13-month period, where you didn't beat the market.
So color me skeptical that any analyst or investor can regularly beat the market.
The professors were confident that their intellectual superiority would help them beat the market.
The random walk means that nobody should ever be able consistently to beat the market.
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This buy list was created using quantitative methods and the selections were supposed to beat the market.
But active ETFs move in and out of stocks in a bid to beat the market, i.e.
The average hedge fund manager has been unable to beat the market for the last 20 months.
Click on the next link for profiles of these amateur gurus and the strategies they use to beat the market.
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