Five people were wounded in a drive-by shooting in January after a Martin Luther King Day parade, while four were injured when gunfire rang out after an argument in the French Quarter in the days leading up to Mardi Gras.
The company reported its third best quarter ever as iPhone 5 availability in the last few days of the quarter more than made up for the seasonal slowdown ahead of the launch.
Goldman Sachs certainly won at trading in the first quarter, with zero losses out of 63 days, its first perfect quarter.
Microsoft is slated to report its third-quarter earnings a few days later on April 24.
With the second quarter just a few days old, headwinds for global stocks remain.
An optimist may point out that the positive variation in the first month of the second quarter could suggest better days ahead.
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Alleghany just completed a merger with Transatlantic Holdings on March 6, so its first-quarter results include 25 days of operations with Transatlantic.
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These days, for instance, lenders are less likely to foreclose on defaulting borrowers: in America, less than a quarter of loans 90 days late or more are in foreclosure, compared with three-quarters in the late 1990s, points out Charles Calomiris, of Columbia University.
If you shut down the economy for five days in any quarter, you're probably going to have negative growth rates.
Its glory days were a quarter of a century ago when oil prices were high and Saudi wealth gushed into building projects.
The Welsh region travel to Saracens on Sunday for a Heineken Cup quarter-final and six days later take on Leicester in the EDF Cup final at Twickenham.
"If I refused to go to Lome it was first for my team-mates, as you don't organise such an event just two days before a quarter-final, " the Chelsea forward said.
But right now the government is cutting the banks some slack, partly because Project Merlin was not signed until February 9, so for the first 40 days of the quarter the banks were not subject to the agreement and were able to lend as much or as little as they chose.
The average time from application to hire was three weeks, versus 26 days in the second quarter of 2012.
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Initial estimates show that after the first four days, about a quarter of a million people had visited the site.
With the start of the June quarter earnings season just a few days away, investors are getting a little, uh, jittery.
Nationally, the time taken to process a foreclosure from default notice to bank repossession averaged 414 days in the fourth quarter.
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And I fully expect that to happen again as we kick off first-quarter earnings over the next several days, and it should be a good ride for a week or two.
While most investors are obsessed with iPhone sales--Apple reported it sold 270, 000 of the all-in-one gadgets during the final two days of its latest quarter--the most telling figures Apple reported were its gross margins.
Analysts have universally lowered their estimates in the past sixty days, pushing the current quarter estimate down slightly and the current year estimate down significantly.
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.
Just days ahead of its fourth quarter earnings results on Feb. 21, e-mails from top management leaked to Bloomberg indicating a bust in February sales.
In terms of the magnitude of analyst estimate trends, we are seeing all of the consensus estimates higher than they were 90 days ago for the current quarter as well as fiscal 2012 and fiscal 2013.
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With demands coming from every quarter, Mr Martin must yearn for his days as finance minister.
The analysis is based on closed sales filed with the Department of Finance six days before the end of each quarter.
According to Transunion, fewer mortgage holders have been falling behind on their payments, with delinquencies (payments more than 60 days late) in the third quarter making their biggest decline in the last four years.
The mine will undergo 13 days of maintenance shutdowns in the fourth quarter for the mill.
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Inventory turns were an average 112.1 days at the end of the third quarter.
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Just last quarter the rate of student loans 90 or more days late was 8.9%.
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