4:20 pm : For a second straight day stocks failed to hold onto intraday gains as the market still looked tired after kicking off a busy week with a two-day rally.
With today being pegged as the biggest day of earnings ever, it's no wonder traders felt a bit exhausted after sifting through nearly 200 earnings reports this morning alone. Sure, the biggest of the bunch -- ExxonMobil (XOM 66.47 -0.13) --�handily beat analysts' expectations with its second-largest quarterly profit ever ($10.36 bln), playing into our Overweight rating on the Energy sector. However, the stock
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3:09 pm PT Universal Health beats by $0.13 (UHS) 51.80 -0.66 : Reports Q2 (Jun) earnings of $0.78 per share, excluding non-recurring items, $0.13 better than the Reuters Estimates consensus of $0.65; revenues rose 5.7% year/year to $1.05 bln vs the $1.02 bln consensus.
3:00 pm PT Rambus announces John Danforth to assume role as Senior Legal Advisor; Robert Kramer appointed acting General Counsel (RMBS) 14.79 -0.65 : Co announces that senior vice president, secretary and general counsel John Danforth will leave these positions and assume a new role within the co, effective immediately. Mr. Danforth will focus on certain of the co's litigation matters as senior legal advisor.
2:55 pm PT Mortons Restaurant Group reports $0.01 above consensus; guides Q3 and Y06 in-line (MRT) 14.01 -0.35 : Reports Q2 (Jun) earnings of $0.15 per share, $0.01 better than the Reuters Estimates consensus of $0.14; revenues rose 8.3% year/year to $79 mln vs the $76.6 mln consensus. Co issues in-line guidance for Q3, sees EPS�at a�loss of $0.01 to gain of $0.01 vs. -$0.01 consensus; sees Q3 revs of $66-69 mln vs. $68.53 mln consensus. Co issues in-line guidance for FY06, sees EPS of $0.75-0.77 vs. $0.75 consensus; sees FY06 revs of $315-319 mln vs. $316.01 mln consensus.
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