Capping it all off was a euro zone Industrial New Orders report which showed that this segment had grown by a whopping 3.8% in May.

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We are evaluating the impact of these events on our CCOP segment and will provide an update when we report first quarter earnings results on November 1, 2011.

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The committee report was trailed Sunday by a critical segment on CBS News 60 Minutes that you can watch here.

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The company also announced that it recently completed the evaluation of its reporting segments and will now report results for a separate "NOOK" operating segment.

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Its earnings report reflects this with the results of the luxury brand segment treated as discontinued operations for accounting and reporting purposes, the company said.

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The weakness in the PC segment will likely show up when Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP) report during their offset cycle.

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According to a research report issued on February 13th by Morgan Stanley, it recorded the highest return on equity of any segment of the firm.

ECONOMIST: Merrill Lynch