The miss was especially surprising since AMD had guided expectations lower twice in the past quarter.
This high-tough game, not any flashy software package, is Oracle's fastest-growing business, up 82% in the past quarter.
U.S. banking sector stocks have taken a beating in the past quarter and Capital One is no exception.
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Small wonder that the number of international migrants has doubled in the past quarter-century, to more than 200m.
Costco ( COST) reported same store sales up 10% in the past quarter.
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In the past quarter, Samsung earned almost twice the market share as Apple, although many speculate that consumers were waiting for this upcoming iPhone release.
Thus, in the past quarter Dell has been sitting on 18 days' sales, and the figure is creeping up as the speed of production increases.
Twice in the past quarter-century Ecuador has defaulted on its debts.
The Chernobyl Union of Ukraine, which supports survivors of the disaster, says 140, 000 people who took part in the cleanup have died in the past quarter-century.
The main reason for the resulting rise in the number of mini-countries is the shift from empire or dictatorship to self-determination, especially in the past quarter-century.
But in the past quarter of a century the consensus forecast for the long-term annual earnings growth of American companies has never dipped significantly below 10%.
In the past quarter the bank's fee income grew by 36%, much faster than income from lending, as investments in asset management, insurance and stockbroking began to pay off.
If that proves right, recession will be avoided, but the drop from 5% growth in 2000 would still be one of the biggest between any two years in the past quarter-century.
Additionally, Nvidia acquired Icera in the past quarter which will give it a chance to strengthen its position in the chipset market (see Nvidia Acquires Icera as Baseband Chipset Market Heats Up).
"Although volumes of business activity continued to worsen across the UK services sector in the past quarter compared with the previous quarter, there are some tentative signs that conditions may be levelling out, " said Ian McCafferty, CBI chief economic adviser.
Shares in the company have lost about a quarter in the past year.
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In the past decade, a quarter of the factories in Ota have closed (although 6, 000 remain).
Partly thanks to the proliferation of independent radio stations, combined with the extra time spent sitting in traffic jams, radio listenership has risen by a quarter in the past five years.
Moreover, analysts are now slashing their forecasts for the third and, in the past week, even the fourth quarter.
While universities have been growing like topsy in America over the past quarter-century, a dozen black colleges have closed.
The iShares FTSE NAREIT Mortgage Plus Capped Index Fund has climbed steadily over the past three months, gaining more than 9.4% in the fourth quarter, and gaining more than 16% over the past six months.
The problem is we've acquired a sort of blind faith in genetic testing over the past quarter century.
The resident population has actually increased by a quarter in the past five years.
It is telling that Pearson resists the impulse of true scholars and intellectuals to probe the cultural contexts and social meanings of art forms that demand the world's attention in the way hip hop has over the past quarter century.
In contrast, none of Pfizer 's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) top eight drugs in the third quarter were introduced in the past three years, even though they accounted for most of the New York-based drug giant's sales.
They were angry about the amount the new UK chief executive, Trevor Matthews, was paid when he joined, as well as the falling company share price, which has slumped by more than a quarter in the past 12 months.
Research by Queen's University and the University of Ulster, carried out as part of the Young Hearts Study, showed that among 12 and 15-year-olds the percentage of children overweight or obese has increased by more than a quarter in the past decade.
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It was a dramatic end to an often tepid match as Uruguay, who were without the suspended Luis Suarez following his goal-line handball that helped them past Ghana in the quarter-finals, only showed real attacking intent when they fell two goals behind.
The big US banks reporting third-quarter results in the past week have referred to a housing market recovery.
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