Casi sagt, um 22:00 auf apple.com...
Hier vorweg die Erwartungen:
Apple is expected to post a 42% rise in first-quarter earnings to $1.62 a share on a 33% revenue increase to $9.47 billion, according to a survey of analysts at Thomson Financial. Shares of the maker of the Macintosh computers and iPod maker were down 2% at $157.80 ahead of the report. Though the technology sector is expected to post the highest earnings growth of any other tracked by Thomson Financial, investors are worried that a broader economic slump will cut into the sector's results and weaken the prospect of growth in the near term. The growth rate for the tech sector now stands at 22% as of Friday, with 13 of the 14 industries that make up the sector expected to post improved results compared with a year ago, according to a weekly update by John Butters, director of the earnings research group at Thomson. The semiconductor-equipment industry, however, is expected to see a decline in profit compared with the year-ago period.
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