AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
THE REAL MOST ACTIVE Lower Volume Mutes Nasdaq's 1.3% Advance.(B)
Byline: JONAH KERI
The Nasdaq logged heady gains Monday, but lower volume tempered the rise. The composite rose 1.3%, as did the Nasdaq 100.
Successful elections in Iraq and merger news stoked buying on the market, but volume remained notably lower through most of the day.
EZCorp. rose 0.83 to 19.08 on five times its normal trade. The Austin, Texas-based pawnshop operator surged out of a long base on Jan. 21 after posting fiscal first-quarter earnings of 43% on sales growth of 13%. The firm also hiked its fiscal 2005 forecast to 95 cents a share from 90 cents.
Talx vaulted 1.19 to 35.09 on more than four times its usual turnover. The provider of automated employment, income verification and unemployment cost management software and services has flashed three big up days in a row in heavy volume, shooting out of a massive, 16-month base.
Last week the firm reported fiscal third-quarter earnings of 33 cents a share, an 83% year-over-year gain. That topped Thomson First Call's consensus estimate by 4 cents and marked the third straight ...
- UAE: AL-AIN NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY RECORDS PROFIT GROWTH.(3rd-quarter...
- Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database December 2, 2002 700+ words
According to Al-Bayan newspaper (November 23, 2002), the Al-Ain National Insurance Company announced that it had recorded a net operating income of 27.48 million Emirati dirhams in the first nine months of the present year compared with Dh 26.81 million in the corresponding period of the previous
- Big declines curb overall profit growth. (1996 third-quarter earnings of...
- Magazine article from: Crain's Chicago Business Murphy, H. Lee November 11, 1996 700+ words
Disappointments at large-cap firms hold 3rd-qtr. rise to 2% Steep declines at some of the region's traditional powerhouses hobbled area companies' earnings growth in the third quarter. A survey by New York-based IBES Inc. revealed an average 2.0% gain in earnings - measured as net income, excluding
- Eugene bank posts profit growth.(Business)(Century Bank's first-quarter...
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) April 17, 2008 700+ words
Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard Eugene's newest bank remains on a strong growth curve, despite what its CEO described Wednesday as "unprecedented challenges" posed by downturns in the local and national economies. Century Bank, founded in April 2004, announced a 33 percent year-over-year
- Specialty firms post strong profit growth; OM Group stock slides on forecast...
- Magazine article from: Chemical Market Reporter August 5, 2002 700+ words
...Continuing its streak of profit growth, OM Group Inc...gain in second quarter earnings to $25.5 million...underlying second quarter earnings from continuing...underlying second quarter earnings gained 14 percent...
- STRONG FOURTH QUARTER EARNINGS MARK 1993 PROFIT GROWTH FOR BREED TECHNOLOGIES
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 8, 1993 700+ words
LAKELAND, Fla., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Breed Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BDT) announced net earnings of $16.8 million, or $.59 per share on revenues of $153.5 million for fiscal year ended June 30, 1993. Revenues for fiscal year 1993 increased by $64.9 million, or 73 percent higher than a year ago
- Avon Third Quarter Earnings Up 13 Excluding Charge In Prior Year; Double-Digit...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 20, 1999 700+ words
...BPR) program. Including the charge, last year's third quarter earnings were $.16 per share. All per-share figures for both...re looking for 1999 to be another year of double-digit profit growth, and our eleventh consecutive year of increased sales and...
- Administaff Fourth Quarter and Annual Results Continue Record-Setting Trend; -...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 15, 2000 700+ words
HOUSTON, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Administaff, Inc. (NYSE: ASF), a leading Professional Employer Organization (PEO), today announced record results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 1999. For the fourth quarter, the company reported net income and diluted earnings per share of $5.5
- Ameritech Earnings Grow 19.5 Percent in First Quarter, Earnings Per Share Up...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 20, 1999 700+ words
...reported record first-quarter earnings, driven by rapid...of double-digit profit growth before one-time items. First-quarter earnings grew 19.5 percent...of 1998. First-quarter earnings included adoption...