This is especially true with corporations that are faced with quarterly pressures from Wall Street.
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Apple's iPhone also is doing well, with quarterly sales were 1.1 million, bringing its total to 1.4 million.
Bosses are especially quick to decry the market's obsession with quarterly earnings figures.
Later Monday, the tech sector comes back into focus with quarterly results from IBM and Texas Instruments after the closing bell.
"With quarterly revenue growth of 83 percent and profit growth of 95 percent, we're firing on all cylinders, " said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO.
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It is rapidly growing, with quarterly earnings up 410% from a year before, but it is still not profitable over the past four quarters.
While its engineering is admirable, Hitachi has struggled to keep pace with quarterly updates demanded by markets for microchips, personal computers and consumer gizmos.
Barclays said it expects China to report real first quarter GDP of 8.2% in the first quarter compared to last year, with quarterly growth of 7%.
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In my experience, the advisers who focus on financial planning meet clients face to face about once a year and typically follow up with quarterly phone calls.
When a new CEO came on the scene a couple of years ago, however, he decided that the business would do just fine with quarterly reviews and exception-only reporting.
The week ahead will undoubtedly include more headlines on just how willing Democrats and Republicans are to meet somewhere in the middle on spending cuts and tax increases, along with quarterly earnings reports from the likes of Best Buy, which recently unveiled its latest turnaround effort.
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Both of those items are at odds with the quarterly returns that Wall Street demands.
In 2010 it launched Bloomberg Government, which competes with Congressional Quarterly, a sister company of The Economist.
European markets gave back early gains today after the Bank of England came out with its quarterly Inflation Report.
The company beat Wall Street estimates with its quarterly earnings yesterday.
Median incomes have been stagnant for many years, a fact pointed out by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Erik Brynjolfsson in a new interview with McKinsey Quarterly.
Hold yourself accountable by asking a mentor, business partner, or a trusted advisor to meet with you quarterly to discuss the progress on your personal goals and mission statement.
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Nokia, the phone giant that staked its future on a partnership with Microsoft, offered its investors small comfort on Thursday with some quarterly result they could squeeze some good news out of.
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And the SEC could slam EY for, what looks like to me, papering over misleading disclosures with their quarterly review stamp of approval and for their bungling of the Matthew Lee investigation.
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Sirius XM Radio parted ways with former CEO Mel Karmazin, and along with its quarterly earnings Tuesday the satellite radio company said his interim replacement Jim Meyer will get the job on a permanent basis.
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As highlighted in earlier article, iPhone market share could reach 4.5% in 2010 (implying 58 million iPhones sold in 2010) if the company were able to grow unit sales in line with 2009 quarterly iPhone unit growth rates.
On the Nasdaq my weekly and monthly risk levels are 3, 264 and 3, 250, while on the Nasdaq 100 Index they are , 2825 and 2, 871 with a quarterly risky level still a barrier at 2, 798 thanks to the lagging Apple.
Page had hours this morning to think about the fact that the company badly missed Street expectations for both revenue and profits, with a quarterly reprot that featured a big drop in margins, higher traffic acquisition costs and falling cost per click.
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Clackmannanshire saw the biggest fall in prices, with a 19% quarterly drop and compared with a year ago the cost of a home is 13.7% lower.
Corporations are too preoccupied with making the quarterly numbers to build their futures.
My proprietary analytics shows an annual pivot at 1, 363.2 with monthly and quarterly risky levels at 1, 486.7 and 1, 539.8.
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) Disney won over more fans on Wall Street with its latest quarterly performance, despite a slight drop in its earnings.
Faced with another hefty quarterly loss, it is shopping both its worst assets (a toxic commercial-mortgage portfolio) and its best (Neuberger Berman, a fund manager).
Faced with another big quarterly loss, it is hawking around both its worst assets (a toxic commercial-mortgage portfolio) and its best (Neuberger Berman, a fund manager).
The loan has been fully drawn down, matures in five years and accrues interest at LIBOR plus 9.25%, for a current rate of 10.75%, with interest payable quarterly in arrears.
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