Ao minuto: Mais de 200 petroleiros à espera de passar por Ormuz. UE avalia imposto "windfall" na energia

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a questão e que no fim da semana passada estava tudo a prognosticar uma semana fraca nos mercados americanos - esta - devido a ser uma semana onde haveria resultados a sair dos retalhistas resultados esses que não seriam supostamente famosos ... et voilá parece que este sector afinal não está tão mau assim como muitos outros parecem não estar assim tão maus ... e evidente que as provisões que os bancos terão que fazer - e não é bem as provisões mas principalmente o facto de não estarem ainda totalmente apurados essas mesmas provisões portanto haver medo/incerteza está a agoirar o mercado e a funcionar como uma sombra ... Já agora uma boa oportunidade de compra no sector financeiro parece ser o DBank que ao que tudo indica está se a sair bem e o não foi mto afectado pela coisa ...

[majomo]

Boa tarde

Realmente o Wal-Mart e Goldman Sachs impulsionam Wall Street com a apresentação de resultados acima do esperado. O NAS100 sobe quase 3%, SPX +1,70%, DJI +1,69...

Onde quero chegar é simples: pelas 20:00, será divulgado as vendas de casas em segunda-mão no mês de Setembro onde a estimativa é -2,5%... Imaginemos que tambem (e espero isso) que as vendas foram tambem acima do esperado... Será lindo, WallStret fechar acima dos 3% muito seguramente.

Aguardemos

Abraço

Nuno Guedes



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[Nunnus]

Boa tarde

Realmente o Wal-Mart e Goldman Sachs impulsionam Wall Street com a apresentação de resultados acima do esperado. O NAS100 sobe quase 3%, SPX +1,70%, DJI +1,69...

Onde quero chegar é simples: pelas 20:00, será divulgado as vendas de casas em segunda-mão no mês de Setembro onde a estimativa é -2,5%... Imaginemos que tambem (e espero isso) que as vendas foram tambem acima do esperado... Será lindo, WallStret fechar acima dos 3% muito seguramente.

Aguardemos

Abraço

Nuno Guedes



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[valves]

Wal-Mart posts profit surprise

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. generated growth of nearly 8% in net profit for the third quarter, financial results showed Tuesday.
The world's largest retailer (WMT:Wal-Mart Stores, Inc WMT 43.32, +0.42, +1.0%) reported net income of $2.86 billion, or 70 cents a share, for the three months ended Oct. 31, up from $2.65 billion, or 63 cents, earned in the year-earlier third quarter.
Based in Bentonville, Ark., the Dow Jones Industrial Average component posted quarterly sales of $91.95 billion, up from the prior year's $84.47 billion.
Earnings from continuing operations improved to 70 cents a share from 62 cents in the year-earlier third quarter. The latest quarter included a penny a share due to the recognition of $46.5 million in after-tax gains from the sale of certain real-estate properties, Wal-Mart said.
Analysts, on average, had been looking for earnings of 67 cents a share on revenue of $91.67 billion, according to estimates compiled by Thomson Financial.
Wal-Mart in October had raised its third-quarter profit forecast to 66 cents to 69 cents a share from a previous estimate of as much as 65 cents.
The company also updated investors on prospects for the key fourth quarter.
Management said it now anticipates generating earnings from continuing operations of 99 cents to $1.03 a share.
This pegs the retailing giant's earnings from continuing operations for the full fiscal year ending next January in a range of $3.13 to $3.17 a share.
Analysts' average estimates stand at $1.02 and $3.09 a share, respectively.
In addition, Wal-Mart's estimating that U.S. comparable-store sales will be flat to 2% higher for the fourth quarter. U.S. comp-store sales were up 1.5% in the third quarter ended Oct. 31, according to the retailer's financial results.
Faced with unseasonably warm weather, record-high oil prices and declining housing market that have impacted its lower income shoppers, Wal-Mart has kept inventory lean, installed a staff-scheduling software program and improved customer service to help bolster profit.
The company, in an aggressive bid to lure holiday shoppers in the industry's most critical season, lowered prices on more than 15,000 items in October and began Black Friday specials three weeks earlier this year.
Wal-Mart also said last week that its level of inventory was healthy heading into the holiday season and that markdowns to clear aged inventory were lower than its plan in the third quarter.
"Wal-Mart is putting price back on the map," said Goldman Sachs analyst Adrianne Shapira, who rates Wal-Mart buy. In light of growing macroeconomic challenges, "price is mattering more and Wal-Mart is positioning itself to win."
Analysts said that inventories will be critical at a time when retailers overall are expected to report their worst holiday season in five years. Retailers also have been left with inventory after unseasonably warm weather and economic worries led to their worst October sales results in a decade.