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Jan 28, 2016
3:41 PM ET
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Amazon reported fourth-quarter earnings after the market’s close on Thursday. While analysts had been forecasting more than quadruple growth year-over-year in earnings per share amid strong retail sales and growth of Amazon Web Services, the company fell sharply below expectations with EPs of $1, versus the FactSet consensus estimate of $1.55.
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- 3:43 pm (EST)
- Jeremy C. Owens
Good afternoon, everyone! We're expecting Amazon's results to hit not long after 4 p.m. Eastern time. Here is what to expect. What not to expect: Specifics on Prime membership or sales of Amazon's hardware, figures long desired and never publicly disclosed.
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Jan 27, 2016
3:46 PM ET
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Facebook reported stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings and its first profit above $1 billion, shortly after the market’s close on Wednesday. The company has a long history of beating Wall Street expectations, and analysts had expected nothing less for this quarter.
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- 3:48 pm (EST)
- Jeremy C. Owens
Welcome to our Facebook earnings live blog! We expect results shortly after the bell, with the conference call scheduled for 5 p.m. Eastern time. While we wait, here is what to expect.
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Jan 26, 2016
3:29 PM ET
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Apple reported weaker-than-expected sales and iPhone units for its fiscal first-quarter earnings, which it released after the market’s close on Tuesday. Analysts drastically lowered holiday-quarter expectations in recent weeks. The consensus estimate, according to FactSet, predicted iPhone sales of 75 million units. The company reported iPhone units of 74.8 million, versus 74.5 million units last year. It also predicted further sales slow downs in the current fiscal quarter.
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- 3:34 pm (EST)
- Jennifer Booton
Hey everyone! Follow along as we live-blog Apple's earnings. The company is reporting its fiscal first-quarter earnings, which includes holiday sales, in about an hour.
Current forecasts, according to FactSet:
EPS: $3.23
Revenue: $76.6 billion
iPhone units: 75 million
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Jan 21, 2016
7:56 AM ETThe European Central Bank left rates unchanged, as expected. But ECB President Mario Draghi delivered more than was bargained for by clearly opening the door to more easing in March. Here’s a recap of our live blog.
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- 8:00 am (EST)
- Markets little fazed as ECB holds steady
- William Watts
Unsurprisingly, markets were little moved in the wake of the ECB's widely expected decision to stand pat.
The euro /quotes/zigman/16008136/realtime/sampled EURUSD is trading at $1.0902 versus the dollar, up around 0.3% from levels late Wednesday.
European stocks /quotes/zigman/2380150/delayed XX:SXXP are holding on to modest gains after Wednesday's rout.
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Jan 20, 2016
11:14 AM ETStocks are getting slammed again as oil extends its plunge. Follow all the action on the MarketWatch live blog.
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- 11:22 am (EST)
- Ugly morning
- William Watts
It's a sea of red out there.
The S&P 500 is down 47 points, or 2.5% at 1,834--well below the important August low at 1,867.
Dow indsutirals are off 377 poitns, or 2.4%, at 15, 640, after having dropped more than 400 points at one point Wednesday morning.
Nasdaq Composite is down 116 points, or 2.6%, at 4,361
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Jan 19, 2016
3:40 PM ET
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Netflix Inc. announced quarterly earnings Tuesday amid a huge international push, and revealed much better profit performance than expected. Netflix forecast profits of 2 cents a share, down from 19 cents a share in the same quarter of 2014 and 7 cents in the third quarter of 2015, and analysts polled by FactSet agreed. However, Netflix showed off earnings of 10 cents a share and reported $1.82 billion in revenue, just off the average analyst projection of $1.83 billion, according to FactSet. Profits could suffer amid Netflix’s rapid international expansion, which kicked into overdrive this month with Chief Executive Reed Hastings’ announcement of the service’s launch in 130 new countries. That push tripled the number of countries in which Netflix operates in a single day. MarketWatch reporter Trey Williams (@Trey3Williams) and Tech Editor Jeremy C. Owens (@jowens510) live-blogged the release of the results and ensuing conference call with Hastings and other executives.
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- 3:42 pm (EST)
- Jeremy C. Owens
Welcome to our live blog on Netflix earnings! We’ll be chatting about the results ahead of the conference call. For what to expect from the results, check this out.
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Jan 15, 2016
9:25 AM ETHere’s a recap of our live blog following the carnage in the stock market Friday.
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- 9:27 am (EST)
We're less than five minutes from the opening bell and Dow futures are down more than 400 points.
S&P 500 futures are down 2.4% and Nasdaq futures are pointing to a 3% decline.
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Jan 7, 2016
8:46 AM ET
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Global equity markets are falling hard as a further plunge by Chinese stocks sends shockwaves through global financial markets. We’re tracking all the action in our live blog.
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- 8:55 am (EST)
- China sparks more turmoil
- William Watts
Another free-fall by Chinese stocks–and a trading halt–set the stage for more global market turmoil Thursday as investors wade further into a not-so-happy new year for equities.
Chinese stocks were halted around a half-hour after they opened as the Shanghai Composite fell more than 7%, again triggering circuit breakers. That leaves the benchmark index down 11.7% over the first four trading days of the year.
European stocks were on track for their worst day since September. US. stock index futures have moved off session lows but continue to point to a sharply lower drop at the opening bell, with the Dow on track to begin the session with a loss of more than 300 points.
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Jan 4, 2016
10:15 AM ETU.S. stocks plunged after China’s stock market dropped sharply to kick off 2016. Here’s a recap of all the action in our live blog.
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- 10:29 am (EST)
- China kicks off the rout
- William Watts
It all kicked off in China, where stocks got routed after a round of weak economic data that stoked fears about global growth prospects in 2016.
A new circuit breaker system for Chinese stocks were part of the equation for the Shanghai Composite, which saw trading halted for the day after posting a 7% decline. Analysts say the circuit breaker, which was designed to counter market volatility, might have actually accelerated selling as investors stormed the exits after initial trading halts.
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