Look At These Earnings!

Stocks were
lower in a quiet session on a mix of economic data.

A last hour sell off sent the S&Ps to the lowest
close since May 25. Energy was strong, with XOM and CHV making new highs.
Business inventory rose less than expected at 0.4% with PPI that fell
unexpectedly by 0.3%. Initial claims edged up 40K to 349K with capacity
utilization falling to 77.2%. Citigroup
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reported earnings fell to
$1.14 billion after a $5 billion legal charge. Excluding one-time charges,
earnings rose to $1.02 a share. Total revenue rose 15% to $22.3 billion.

Apple
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reported earnings that beat expectations on strong iPod sales with
overall sales up at $2 billion. Earnings rose to $61 million, iPod sales rose to
860,000 units. The company expects earnings of 16 cents for Q4 and revenue of
$2.1 billion.
Sandisk
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reported Q2 sales that rose 85% to $433 million with earnings at $71 million.
For Q3, it is seeking revenue of $450 million. Cypress Semiconductor
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rose after reporting earnings of $22 million with revenue up 30% to $264.3
million with strength in its wireless terminals.

OPEC cancelled next week’s
scheduled meeting, confident they can implement a quota increases without it.

Martha Stewart is
scheduled to be sentenced on Friday.

After the bell, IBM
reported Q2 of $1.16 vs. a $1.12 estimate, but was a little light on revenues at
$23.15 billion vs. the $23.4 estimate. PMC Sierra
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reported
$.08 vs. $0.07, beating by a penny. Net income was $15 million, revenues were
$86 million, in-line. Aspect Communications
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missed by 0.03
and was light on revenues; Digi International
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beat by 0.02;
Netflix
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missed by 0.02; Rambus
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beat by
0.02; Lexar Media
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missed by   0.02 and guided
lower. HotTopic
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lowered guidance for FY 04.

On the IPO front, Freescale
IPO lowered its price talk to $14.50- $15.00; seven other IPOs are expected to
price tonight, including flat panel display make LG Phillips; talk is
$15-$18 and symbol is LPL.

Dow -45.64 10163.16
S&P 500 -4.78 1106.69
Nasdaq -2.17 1912.71

Strong today were: Disk
Drives

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+3.72%, Hardware
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+1.80%,
Oil Services

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+2.55%,.Healthcare
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+1.81%.

Weak today were: Brokers
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-1.18%, Banks
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-1.02%, Telecom
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-0.89%.

Economic news release include
Business Inventories that rose by 0.4%, Initial Claims that rose to 349K, NY
Empire State Index rose to 36.5. PPI prices fell by 0.3% and Core PPI rose by
0.2$. Industrial Production fell by 0.3% with Capacity Utilization also falling
to 77.2%

10-year Notes were -005
at 110 125

The dollar
was +0.19 at 87.95

Gold was -0.10 at 403.50

Crude Oil was -0.27 at
40.93

Volume was 1.4 billion
on the NYSE, and 1.66 billion on the Nasdaq.

Market breadth was mixed.

NYSE Issues
Advancing 1757 Up Vol 557
Declining 1491 Down Vol 833
Ratio 1.17 1.49
Nasdaq
Advancing 1535 Up Vol 752
Declining 1540 Down Vol 853
Ratio 1.00 1.13

Stocks in the news:

Nokia
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warned that
earnings would be below consensus and sales from April – June would be around
$8.20 billion.

Harrah’s
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said they would purchase Caesar’s
Entertainment

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for $5.2 billion in a stock and cash deal; it would
create the world’s largest casino operator.

Fairchild Semiconductor
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rose after posting
earnings of $17 million with revenue rising 19% to $414.3 million, which missed
estimates.

QLogic
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reported a profit of $32.2 million
on revenue of $129.8 million. Both numbers were either inline or beat the
consensus.

Brice Wightman

bricew@tradingmarkets.com