earnings growth unexpectedly eased to its weakest rate since January, in the three months to September, while?
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Earnings growth is declining, except that is, for the city bankers who are expecting bonus growth this year of 25%.\n\nThe influx of migrants from the Eastern European states is having it"s effect. They are prepared to work for a lower wage and this has a "knock on" effect. They are also prepared to sleep 3/4 to a room in cheap bed & breakfasts.\n\nInflation is at 2.5%, which is 0.5% above the target, so gordon will try to keep wage demands as low as possible.\n\nIt would be nice if, Gas - Electricity - Council Tax,etc. only increased by 2.5%, but no, these charges have gone through the roof.\n\nI read a report about a month ago, that Gas was so plentyful, that the importers were "paying" the distributors to take it off their hands. Did prices come down? Not on your life.\n\nAnyway, back to the subject, I think we should do as other countries are doing, and restrict the number of immigrant to fill only the jobs that are vacant.\n\nYou won"t get a job in America unless it can"t be filled by an American citizen. We should have a similar scheme.\n\nPut the onnus on employers to "prove" that they have tried everything possible to fill the vacancy using the indiginous population.\n\nWages going down, bills going up, more and more people getting into debt. It"s all going to explode soon.
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I know this is not much of an answer, but I also noticed some of the financial data like dividend per share is wrong (well, out of date)
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In some ways, yes, beause it shows the speed at which your market is turning in cash rather than disbursing it in real time, at the very least, daily.  Your accounting profit is a rather static measure of your performance for the accounting period covered.
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LOL -- no wonder american productivity went down in Q4
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Earnings per share (Trailing twelve months)
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Here's just a small part of why the dollar is weak and none of that's good. It is correct that it will make the trade deficit LOOK better than it is. The stock market has very little to do with the economy-it has to do with buying and selling. For the most part, the stock market today loves the inflation numbers which say inflation is low overall, but largely because it includes prices of vehicles, clothes and luxury items most of us can't buy. Food and housing costs are way up-and that's what most people need first. Corporate earnings are falsely inflated by cost cutting not by true growth. Our ever-increasing deficit-yes, our Treasuries-our US debt is 51% foreign owned. China is our largest foreign debtor. Most pundits as well as the administration don't want to tell us the bad news because US optimism-the will to shop-and the US consumer's desire to ignore problems-leads to "growth" and "profits". Sure, War is Peace and Debt is Wealth.\n\nLONDON (AFP) - The dollar sank to a 20-month low against the euro and a 14-year low against the pound as investors seized on weak manufacturing data in the US to drive the currency lower, dealers said. \n\nThe Chicago PMI index of business activity fell to 49.9 in November from 53.5 in October, well below analysts' expectations for a pick-up to 54.5, data showed.\n\nAnalysts said the data could portend a fall in the closely watched ISM manufacturing index which is to be published on Friday.\n\nCalyon currency analyst Mitul Kotecha played down talk of a recession in the US, which has been driving heavy selling of the dollar in recent days.\n\nThe euro has gained 3.7 percent agaist the dollar since November 21, taking it from 1.28 dollars to its present level of 1.32.\n\n"It's maybe too early to talk about a recession," said Kotecha.\n"Clearly the risk of a recession has increased in recent months.\n\nBank of New York currency analyst Michael Woolfolk said the Chicago PMI, combined with other income and spending data, "were the one-two punch that knocked the dollar back on the ropes, leaving little doubt over the near-term direction in the beleaguered greenback".\n\nLONDON (AFX) - The dollar stayed weak, hovering around the 1.32 mark against the euro and staying at 14-year lows against the pound following disappointing US weekly jobless claims numbers. \nUS jobless claims surged by 34,000 to 357,000 in the week just gone, well below analysts' forecasts for a fall in claims to 314,000, although the figures are likely to have been distorted by the Thanksgiving holiday. \nThe news broadly offset a stronger-than-expected core PCE deflator, the measure of inflation favoured by the Federal Reserve. \n"A larger than expected rise in jobless claims, even though the Labor Department says the Thanksgiving holiday skewed the data, is being emphasized by the market more than the unexpectedly firm core PCE deflator," said Jamie Coleman at Thomson IFR Markets. \nThe PCE measure showed that core inflation rose by 2.4 pct on an annual basis, above expectations for a more moderate 2.3 pct.
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While this question does not provide sufficient information. I will make try.\n\nWith a monthly, annual, or even daily basis, an SD of .04 is very low and a return of 12% is very high . . . these two stats rarely occur together making me think you need more info. "Lies, damn lies, and statisitics" Beware!
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The latest in a series of abrupt downturns in Google's stock followed CFO George Reyes' answer to a question during an investor conference hosted by Merrill Lynch in New York. \n\n"Most of what's left is just organic growth, which means you have to find ways to grow your traffic," Reyes said. "Clearly, our growth rates are slowing, and you see that each and every quarter."\n\nReyes later put a more positive spin on his remarks. "I am not turning bearish at all," he said near the end of a 45-minute session that was Webcast. "I think we have a lot of growth ahead of us. I think it's just a question of at what rate."
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387.68 Today.\nShould have bought in September they were 412 then.
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My guess is weaken, because the US economy is slowing, and oil prices are mired under $60 a barrel. Also, with the possibility of a spring election, interest rates unlikely to rise.
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What, isn't it just coincidence that it dropped almost a dollar in the three months before the election, and has climbed 20cents or more since the election?\n\nYou think politics might have motivated the oil companies to make people less displeased with the government, on the chance that would help their buddies who are incumbents keep their jobs?\n\nPerish the thought.
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Tax rates on capital gains are actually surprisingly low, so it shouldn't really be that bad.
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The increase is (7-0)/0 which is undefined.  You sold infinitely more units in April than you did in March.
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the state of being behind in payments; \nExample: Today accounts section has paid off all my arrears.
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thestreet.com has an excellent article on Cramers advice. The contributor was showing how people get in trouble just blindly following his advice..like i did with bookham not taking the time to realize their quarterlyy report came out the next day. bummer...
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Join him on his leap of sadness.  I got hurt bad this past month in the stock market too.....\n\n\nI'm going up a few stories before I leap though.  \n\n\nAnyone want the password to my sharebuilder account?  If it goes back up..."someone" should benefit.
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I thought in my Finance class that we were told internal financing (Retained Earnings) is the cheapest form of financing!  You might want to do some more research.