{"id":721173,"date":"2010-04-21T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:426175"},"modified":"2010-04-21T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T13:11:00","slug":"earnings-energy-goldman-%e2%80%93-vialoux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/721173","title":{"rendered":"Earnings, energy, Goldman \u2013 Vialoux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. equity index futures are mixed this morning. S&amp;P 500 futures are down 1 point in pre-opening trade despite a series of favourable first quarter earnings reports released overnight. <\/p>\n<p>The earnings focus this morning is on Apple. The stock gained 6% after reporting blow out first quarter earnings. Scotia Capital raised its rating on the stock from Market Perform to Outperform. <\/p>\n<p>Companies reporting higher than expected first quarter earnings reports included Boeing, AT&amp;T, McDonald\u2019s, Altria, United Technologies, St. Jude Medical and EMC Corp. <\/p>\n<p>Not all reports exceeded consensus estimates. Yahoo and Wells Fargo are trading lower after missing expectations. <\/p>\n<p>The first major North American energy company reported first quarter earnings this morning. Encana significantly exceeded consensus earnings and cash flow estimates. Its stock gained 1% in pre-opening trade. Strength in Encana could spill into other energy stocks this morning. <\/p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs gained 2% following news that the SEC had contradicting evidence prior to launch of its civil law suit against Goldman.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><i>Don Vialoux, chartered market technician, is the author of a free<br \/>\ndaily report on equity markets, sectors, commodities, equities and<br \/>\nExchange-Traded Funds. For more visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/\" >Don Vialoux&#39;s Web site<\/a><\/i> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=426175\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. equity index futures are mixed this morning. S&amp;P 500 futures are down 1 point in pre-opening trade despite a series of favourable first quarter earnings reports released overnight. The earnings focus this morning is on Apple. The stock gained 6% after reporting blow out first quarter earnings. Scotia Capital raised its rating on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31BP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}