After it was floated eight years ago its profits kept going up and its shares multiplied in value.
And what are the odds of the market recouping its losses and actually going up during the next few years?
Its debt has jumped from 70% of GDP to 110% in just three years and its deficit is still going up.
No telling how this will end up playing out, but we're sure Apple isn't going to give up its little cash-cow ecosystem without a fight.
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The cme Group is going up against its own customers--banks like Barclays, jpmorgan and Merrill Lynch, that is--by introducing over-the-counter derivatives, including interest-rate swaps.
The cme Group is going up against its own customers--banks like Barclays (nyse: BCS - news - people ), jpmorgan and Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ), that is--by introducing over-the-counter derivatives, including interest-rate swaps.
Because of its clever title the MGM film built up plenty of good buzz going into its March 26 opening (opposite How to Train Your Dragon).
"It does necessarily mean that the BOJ is not going to give up its independence, " she added.
Instead Boston Scientific is going to talk up its technology.
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After Epstein died in 1967 the group began to break up with its members going their own way, sometimes as soloists, sometimes forming new groups, sometimes doing not much.
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But as the business was under way, Jobs called Adams again to let him know that NeXT was going to give up its workstation business and focus instead on software.
In a blog post dedicated to how the company is going to step up its privacy practices, Google revealed what exactly its Street View cars accidentally collected when they downloaded data from open, nonencrypted WiFi networks, notably passwords and emails.
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Huawei says its chip business is going to be a strategic advantage as it continues to ramp up its research and development efforts in smartphones and other mobile devices.
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Britain, which used a larger share of GDP than most other big countries (though far less than Ireland) to prop up its banks, is going further than most to rethink regulation.
But he also knows that the context is changing in front of his eyes.. The alternative, if Wales is going to keep up with its Caledonian cousins in terms of that four-way administration split, is to accumulate further powers for the Assembly in new fields, in order to maintain the credibility of his seat at the top table.
You know, any start up is going to have its bumps and we've had ours.
So this was to be the season for tourism or for fishing that this region was going to get back up on its feet.
The revelation this week that the cost of a popular drug to help prevent preterm labor is going to go up 100 times its current price has stunned pregnant women, their doctors and pharmacists in Western Pennsylvania.
But export-dependent Germany is relying heavily on global trade to pick up in order to get its economy going again.
Google has been keeping the pipeline of innovation going by tapping its employees and letting ideas percolate up, Bock said.
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Folks, if you truly want to see Congress clean up its act, you're going to have to make them do it.
This loud and crystal clear statement of intent that BP is publicly going to clean house and sharpen up its act.
Wichita State gradually stretched its lead early in the second half, eventually going up 44-27 on Armstead's cool 3-pointers with 14:51 to play.
Rumor has it that Microsoft is going to do right by its customers and hook up Gold members with a little something -- at least according to an unnamed Xbox insider.
Besides moving low-priced HD DVD players, the HD DVD Promotional Group is taking advantage of Home Media Expo 2007 to announce its most recent sales data, with HD DVD going up, and Blu-ray going down.
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Japan is going to wake up -- not just its consumers but its producers, too.
With no recovery in industrial earning power in sight and technology in the throes of its inventory correction, corporate earnings just aren't going up this year.
Every year the Finnish company reviews its research projects, and those that are going nowhere could end up getting cut.
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