Messi stepped up to take the free kick but though the ball beat the wall it flashed a foot wide of the post.
Last year, CNBC poached Robert Frank, the author of Richistan and The High-Beta Rich and pioneer of the wealth beat at The Wall Street Journal, to set up the Inside Wealth blog at the cable channel.
Operating profit fell a dramatic 25% for Yum, which earned 72 cents per share and managed to beat the consensus Wall Street estimate by a dime.
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The company beat Wall Street's expectations and it can thank the iPod for that.
The food maker reported first-quarter income and revenue that beat the forecasts of Wall Street analysts as it increased sales and cut costs following its split from its global snack business.
The automaker's earnings of 67 cents a share beat the 54 cents predicted by Wall Street analysts who follow the company.
The company beat Wall Street estimates with its quarterly earnings yesterday.
"You have to sit there in silence, and you just get up every day and beat your head against the wall, " Lagow, 50, said in a recent interview.
Morse to his credit emphasized that the company was still executing on its overall plan, and beat Wall Street expectations in the quarter, and is seeing bright spots in areas such as video, Yahoo Mail and News and its new publishing platform.
Those people on his beat would be the titans of Wall Street.
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The most recent quarter beat Wall Street by 33%, another sign that observers find Tiffany hard to measure.
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Add to that a low financial bar set by depressed conditions in 2006, and companies in the business may well beat Wall Street expectations on earnings later this year.
As the market sinks and other e-businesses flounder, Dallas-based i2 (nasdaq: ITWO - news - people) says it will beat Wall Street estimates for the fourth quarter.
Wallpaper. (The Beat Generation had dawned in the U.S., and funky wall coverings of bamboo and such were the rage.) When that didn't fly, they hawked it as greenhouse insulation.
Facebook shares rose by nearly 30% this morning, after the social-networking company beat Wall Street profit estimates for its third quarter and assuaged some fears about its mobile-growth strategy.
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Shares jumped 21% in aftermarket trading after the video rental and streaming company beat Wall Street expectations for profit and revenues.
The guidance and reported revenues that beat Wall Street's expectations helped Yahoo!
Appropriately enough, the U.S. Commerce Department reported earlier Wednesday that retail sales for September fell 1.2% from August, a strong beat below the 0.7% expected by Wall Street.
Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ) and Gilead Sciences (nasdaq: GILD - news - people ) could beat Wall Street's expectations in the third quarter, according to two analysts using prescription databases to forecast company sales.
The company did beat expectations, delivering adjusted EPS of 51 cents, above the 49 cents expected by Wall Street analysts.
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Whirlpool ( WHR - news - people )'s ability to weather the global sales slump, leading it to beat Wall Street's forecast.
The drugmaker's profit and sales both beat Wall Street expectations.
Among companies that have reported, 48% beat Wall Street's projections for sales, below the average of 52% from the past four years, according to FactSet.
Based on the deluge of tweets, emails, and Facebook messages and the retaliatory bullying her underage kids were subject to, McCarren announced on her Facebook wall that she was taking herself off the beverage beat and handing the reins over to a colleague.
Still, the company beat EPS expectations earning 23 cents compares with 21 expected by Wall Street.
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The paint and chemicals supplier reported fourth-quarter revenue that beat Wall Street estimates, but its earnings fell short of expectations.
Netease got a much better response from Wall Street: its shares rose 8% after the company beat earnings forecasts by a comfortable margin.
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Coca-Cola, the world's biggest beverage maker, reported first quarter earnings that beat Wall Street forecasts.
Its adjusted earnings beat Wall Street expectations, as cost cuts helped offset tough pricing competition during the quarter.
After Riverbed announced third quarter earnings that beat Wall Street estimates last Friday, shares rose 10.3% over the course of the week.
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