Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy , along with Ed Zander , president and COO, and Michael Lehman , vice president of corporate resources and CFO, will be in the hot seat while they give Wall Street a heads up on how Sun's business is weathering the slowing economy.

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Michael Hulme at Lehman Brothers said the weakness of the figures were hard to square with robust anecdotal evidence from the Confederation of British Industry, John Lewis and others.

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"To the extent that consumers end up either using the majority of (the refund) to pay down debt or simply to save for a rainy day, obviously the economic impact is going to be a lot less, " said Michael Gregory of Lehman Brothers.

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Michael Dicks, an economist at Lehman Brothers, points out that a slowing economy will start to drag earnings growth down next year.

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No one has appointed an Anton Valukas-style bankruptcy examiner or a Michael Missal to give MF Global the Lehman or the New Century treatment.

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Michael Page's shareholders snubbed the offer and the courtship quickly ended after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September.

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