The fact that this comparison was part of an earnings statement released only a day after the iPad mini was launched suggests Amazon has been eyeing Apple closely.
The statement comes ahead of next week's earnings and indicates it will report heavy losses for the period.
As FORBES has pointed out, this depressed the total salary expense line in the income statement, further diminishing the quality of reported earnings.
As FORBES GLOBAL has pointed out (see "Stock options are not a free lunch, " May 18), this depressed the total salary expense line in the income statement, further diminishing the quality of reported earnings.
Japanese financial stocks, as especially the megabanks, have been in a positive feedback loop of balance sheet and income statement translation gains from a weaker yen and the prospect of increased loan volumes and interest earnings from higher domestic loan demand.
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Your online Social Security Statement provides you with a yearly breakout down of your earnings record.
T-Mobile USA expects to include full financial statement results for the fourth quarter of 2011 in the earnings release for the first quarter of 2012 as a comparative period.
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Hardware accounted for just 17% of the company's revenues in its last earnings statement.
"Solid performance in the quarter and for the year reflected good results across most of our businesses, " Dimon said in an earnings statement.
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"GE remains confident that 2001, with or without Honeywell, will be another record year of double digit operating earnings growth, " said the firm in a statement.
Stripping out the impact of oil price fluctuations and asset sales, underlying earnings grew 2 percent, the company said in a statement.
"This has been a disappointing year overall, primarily due to the negative impact of the Fingerhut credit problem on Federated's earnings performance, " said CEO James Zimmerman in a statement.
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