Both predecessors were criticized as being overpriced but went on to do much better than expected.
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Empire State Manufacturing was much better than expected, as was the Philadelphia Fed report.
On the other hand, it did well in terms of profitability as margins arrive much better than expected.
Markets responded to the much better than expected employment data Thursday morning.
At the same time, give a little thought to challenges you would face if tomorrow turns out to be much better than expected.
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Sugar production in Brazil has also been much better than expected, while China has generally had a good growing season, Mr Walton adds.
Overall, this has been a much better than expected earnings season.
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Jefferies Group, an independent, full-service global securities and investment banking firm, surged 6.7% higher on Tuesday following reports of a much better than expected second quarter result.
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Gould said the quarterly results were much better than expected.
The Conference Board consumer-confidence index for November came in much better than expected, at 56.0, from a revised 40.9 in October, and compared with estimates of a reading of 45.0.
The ADP Employment report Thursday and declining unemployment claims also buoyed the stock market, and the good news culminated with monthly jobs report, which was also much better than expected.
When iPhone 4S was introduced, the sales on the very first day were much better than expected, the sales for the first weekend broke records, and the sales accelerated throughout the quarter.
There has been a wave of favorable financial news coming from Borders as it recently successfully renegotiated its debt and a much better than expected fourth quarter enabled it to post a profit in fiscal 2010.
It is worth remembering that when iPhone 4S was introduced, the sales on the very first day were much better than expected, the sales for the first weekend broke records, and the sales accelerated throughout the quarter.
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"They round off a quarter which is perhaps much better than many expected at the start of the year, " she added.
As a result, same-store sales at 28 retailers tracked by Thomson Reuters rose 6% in November, much better than the expected 3.6% growth.
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In a clear sign that the online advertising market is alive and well, Google this afternoon posted much better-than-expected Q2 results.
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Garmin shares are trading higher Wednesday morning on much-better-than-expected results for the first quarter.
Fortinet shares are trading sharply higher in late trading Monday on much-better-than-expected results for the third quarter.
Cirrus Logic shares are trading sharply higher Monday afternoon after the company offered much-better-than-expected guidance for its fiscal second quarter ending September 30.
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Total real business investment rose by 1.1%, much better than might have been expected from the dispiriting profit figures that American companies have been reporting.
He may have read too much into better-than-expected data on consumption.
If Lipitor was really much better than Zocor, he would have expected that trial to have stopped early.
Although the profits of both these banks were much lower than a year ago, they were still better than had been expected.
One question is how much investors will reward better-than-expected sales.
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On that point, several economic reports in the past week came in better than expected, including much higher non-farm payrolls and productivity, as well as a rise in the ISM non-manufacturing index.
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And that was a much better deal than I think a lot of people expected.
The much-anticipated Chinese manufacturing data on Thursday came out better than expected.
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As mentioned above, better than expected Kinect sales would not have much impact, as XBox constitutes less than 3% of our estimate for Microsoft stock.
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