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发帖数: 196 | 1 Technology titans Nokia (NYSE:NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) are combining
forces to create smart phones that might challenge rivals like Apple (
NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and revive their own fortunes in a
market they have struggled to keep up with. Nokia Corp., the world’s
largest maker of mobile phones, said Friday it plans to use Microsoft Corp.
’s Windows Phone software as the main platform for its smart phones in an
effort to pull market share away from Apple’s iPhone and Android, Google’s
software for phones and tablets. -Daily Finance
Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE:CCE) said Friday its fourth-quarter earnings
rose to $97 million, or 29 cents a share, basic, from $91 million, or 27
cents a share, basic. Adjusted diluted earnings per share in the latest
period totaled 28 cents a share. Revenue rose 12% to $1.8 billion. It’s the
first time the company has reported fourth-quarter earnings since a
restructuring that created the company from the former Coca-Cola Enterprises
’ European bottling operations, as well as bottling operations in Norway
and Sweden acquired from the Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO). Wall Street analysts
expected the company to earn 28 cents a share on revenue of $1.75 billion,
according to a survey by FactSet Research. CCE said it continues to expect
2011 earnings of $1.95 to $2 a share. -MarketWatch
The U.S. trade deficit widened in December for a second month as the cost of
imported oil climbed to the highest level in two years. The gap grew 5.9
percent to $40.6 billion, in line with the $40.5 billion median forecast in
a Bloomberg survey of economists, Commerce Department data showed today in
Washington. Excluding petroleum, the shortfall shrank to $15.3 billion, the
smallest since March. -Bloomberg
U.S. 30-year mortgage rates have jumped above 5% for the first time since
last spring, in a rapid rise that could present a challenge to the still-
troubled housing market. The average rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages
climbed to 5.05% in the week ended Thursday, according to a widely watched
survey by government-backed mortgage company Freddie Mac, up from 4.81% a
week ago. It was the highest rate in the survey since April. Rising mortgage
rates are an immediate consequence of the large jump in the U.S. government
’s borrowing costs in recent weeks. Mortgage rates tend to move in line
with the yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which closed Thursday at 3.712%
, up from its October low of 2.381%. -The Wall Street Journal | v**c
发帖数: 196 | 2 Technology titans Nokia (NYSE:NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) are combining
forces to create smart phones that might challenge rivals like Apple (
NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and revive their own fortunes in a
market they have struggled to keep up with. Nokia Corp., the world’s
largest maker of mobile phones, said Friday it plans to use Microsoft Corp.
’s Windows Phone software as the main platform for its smart phones in an
effort to pull market share away from Apple’s iPhone and Android, Google’s
software for phones and tablets. -Daily Finance
Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE:CCE) said Friday its fourth-quarter earnings
rose to $97 million, or 29 cents a share, basic, from $91 million, or 27
cents a share, basic. Adjusted diluted earnings per share in the latest
period totaled 28 cents a share. Revenue rose 12% to $1.8 billion. It’s the
first time the company has reported fourth-quarter earnings since a
restructuring that created the company from the former Coca-Cola Enterprises
’ European bottling operations, as well as bottling operations in Norway
and Sweden acquired from the Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO). Wall Street analysts
expected the company to earn 28 cents a share on revenue of $1.75 billion,
according to a survey by FactSet Research. CCE said it continues to expect
2011 earnings of $1.95 to $2 a share. -MarketWatch
The U.S. trade deficit widened in December for a second month as the cost of
imported oil climbed to the highest level in two years. The gap grew 5.9
percent to $40.6 billion, in line with the $40.5 billion median forecast in
a Bloomberg survey of economists, Commerce Department data showed today in
Washington. Excluding petroleum, the shortfall shrank to $15.3 billion, the
smallest since March. -Bloomberg
U.S. 30-year mortgage rates have jumped above 5% for the first time since
last spring, in a rapid rise that could present a challenge to the still-
troubled housing market. The average rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages
climbed to 5.05% in the week ended Thursday, according to a widely watched
survey by government-backed mortgage company Freddie Mac, up from 4.81% a
week ago. It was the highest rate in the survey since April. Rising mortgage
rates are an immediate consequence of the large jump in the U.S. government
’s borrowing costs in recent weeks. Mortgage rates tend to move in line
with the yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which closed Thursday at 3.712%
, up from its October low of 2.381%. -The Wall Street Journal |
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