Stocks stumble on Microsoft Vista view
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U.S. stocks fell on Friday after Microsoft Corp.  tempered revenue expectations for the Vista computer operating system.
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Stocks declined on Monday, hit by profit-taking in large technology companies, including Microsoft Corp. , in the last trading session of the year.
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NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Stock selling in the software and semiconductor sectors sent benchmark indexes lower, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average breaking through to a new
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U.S. stocks fell on Friday as oil  prices hit a record high and Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O dragged  on the major indexes after the software maker's revenue  forecast lagged analysts' expectations.
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U.S. stocks fell on Thursday, led by a  sharp decline in the tech sector as shares of online auctioneer  eBay Inc. EBAY.O and wireless technology company Qualcomm  Inc. QCOM.O took a beating a day after both companies  reported disappointing outlooks.
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Stocks tumbled on Tuesday, sending the benchmark S&P 500 index to its biggest one-day slide in more than 3-1/2 years as a sell-off in China's equity market fanned worries that stock valuations there are too high and some data indicated U.S. economic growth may slow.
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U.S. stocks slid sharply on Friday, after bellwether stocks such as Caterpillar and Google posted disappointing earnings.
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Microsoft beat Wall Street expectations for both revenue and EPS (earnings per share) for its fiscal 2008 second quarter, attributing its strong quarter to sales of core client products, such as Windows Vista and Office 2007, as well as Exchange and SharePoint server software.For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Microsoft reported revenue of $16.37 billion, an increase of 30 percent year over year and a number that solidly beat the $15.95 billion in revenue that Thomson Financial analysts had estimated. Last year for the same period, Microsoft reported $12.54 billion in revenue.Diluted earnings per share were $0.50, an increase of 92 percent over the $0.27 in EPS reported last year, and $0.04 higher than Thomson Financial estimates of $0.46. Operating income for the quarter was $6.48 billion, an increase of 92 percent from the $3.47 billion reported for the same period last year.Microsoft&#39;s year-over-year percentage growth is higher than normal due to a deferral of $1.64 billion in revenue and operating income, as well as $0.11 of diluted earnings per share from the second to the third quarter of fiscal 2007. This deferred revenue contributed to the higher-than-average second-quarter percentage growth. Without these deferrals, second-quarter growth rates for revenue, operating income and earnings per share would be 15 percent, 27 percent and 32 percent, respectively, for the quarter reported Thursday.Ahead of Microsoft&#39;s announcement, analysts had expected the company to report a strong quarter even among economic uncertainty and fears that the U.S. economy is entering a recession.Microsoft&#39;s client business, on sales of Windows Vista, was especially strong in the quarter, with $4.34 billion in revenue compared to $2.59 billion in revenue a year ago. According to Microsoft, its client business has grown 20 percent on average since Windows Vista was made available nearly a year ago, and the company believes Vista began hitting its stride for adoption among customers and partners in the second quarter. According to Microsoft, it has sold more than 100 million licenses for Vista.Looking ahead to the next quarter, which ends March 31, Microsoft said Thursday that it expects revenue in the range of $14.3 billion to $14.6 billion; operating income in the range of $5.6 billion to $5.7 billion; and diluted earnings per share in the range of $0.43 to $0.45.For the full fiscal year ending June 30, Microsoft expects revenue in the range of $59.9 billion to $60.5 billion; operating income in the range of $24.2 billion to $24.4 billion; and diluted EPS in the range of $1.85 to $1.88.
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U.S. blue-chip stocks slipped on>  Wednesday as disappointing reports from companies such as  Honeywell International Inc. HON.N and J.P. Morgan Chase &  Co. JPM.N weighed on the market.
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U.S. stocks slipped on Friday, with a  drop in Dell Inc. DELL.O following its disappointing revenue  outlook weighing on technology shares.
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Investors will be looking for signs from Microsoft Corp.  of a strong holiday quarter for Xbox 360 video game consoles and new computers loaded with Windows Vista when the company reports results this week.
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U.S. stocks fell on Friday as oil  prices hit a record high and Microsoft Corp. dragged on the  major indexes after the software maker's revenue forecast  lagged analysts' expectations.
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US stocks fell sharply as record oil prices and disappointing sales forecasts from Microsoft Corp. spurred losses in technology shares.
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Stocks declined Monday, the last day of a volatile and difficult year on Wall Street.
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Late-night shoppers take advantage of Vista's launch to snap up bargains, but for the most part take a pass on the OS itself.
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Investors reacted to a disappointing fourth-quarter earnings report that raised worries about the software makerâs ability to cope with tougher competition and a slowing U.S. economy.
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U.S. stocks fell on Friday as oil  prices touched another record high and Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O  dragged on the major indexes after the software maker's revenue  forecast lagged analysts' expectations.