Market Currents

• Thursday, December 10, 2009

• 09:00 AM Premarket gainers: ONTY +10%. ING +4%. APC +4%. NLST +3%. FACT +3%. BCS +3%. IOC +3%. GFI +3%.
  Losers: SIGA -13%. IT -8%. CIEN -3%. LLY -3%. Comment!

• Wednesday, August 26, 2009

• 16:41 PM Gartner (IT) raises its semiconductor outlook, saying it now expects 2009 chip revenues of $212B, down 17% from a year ago, compared with its previous call for a 22.4% decline. Comment!

• Thursday, February 5, 2009

• 09:52 AM Gartner (IT) -21% after guiding 2009 EPS down to $0.63-0.87 vs. consensus of $1.02, even as Q4 EPS of $0.35 beats consensus by $0.03. Sees 2009 rvenue of $1.1-1.16B vs. consensus of $1.29B. (PR) Comment!

• Wednesday, August 27, 2008

• 10:15 AM Gartner (IT) reports 304.7M mobile devices were sold in Q2 (+12% Y/Y). Gartner expects handset sales to grow 11% in 2008, for a total of 1.28B units, with revenue growth of 9%. Major players: Nokia (NOK), Motorola (MOT), and Samsung. Comment!

• Wednesday, July 30, 2008

• 08:29 AM Gartner (IT): Q2 EPS of $0.30 beats by $0.07. Revenue of $344M (+17.5%) vs. $335M. [PR] Comment!
• 00:10 AM Notable earnings Wed. pre-open: ABG, AGN, AMT, AVP, CAM, CMCSA, CMI, GLW, GRMN, HES, HUN, IACI, IPG, IT, JNY, KIM, LAZ, MCO, MT, NBL, OC, ODP, PAG, RAI, RHD, SO, TEL, THQI, UMC Comment!