San Antonio-based AT&T の本日の資料によれば ネットインカムは前年度の18億1000万ドルから29億ドルの上昇し、 1株当たりネットインカムは46セントから47セントに上昇した。
AT&T fueled growth with last year's $86 billion purchase of BellSouth Corp., and has cut jobs and trimmed marketing expenses. Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson, who took over last month, also benefited from AT&T's exclusive deal with Apple Inc. to market the iPhone, which helped limit customer turnover.
``He's inheriting a pretty well-oiled machine here,'' said Todd Rethemeier, an analyst at Soleil Securities Corp. in New York. He rates AT&T shares ``hold'' and owns some personally. ``So far, so good.'' ここまではうまくいっている(今後は分からない)
顧客が異動した割合、「Churn」としても知られる(ブローカーが手数料稼ぎのために行う)大量売買 は1.6%に下落し、記録的な低さだった。 The company attributed that to ``attractive handset selection'' and called iPhone sales ``robust.'' AT&T activated about 146,000 iPhone subscribers in the quarter, more than 40 percent of them new subscribers.
AT&TはBellSouth社の乗っ取りで、Cingular Wirelessを完全に所有した後 1万人の人員削減計画を発表している。The unit, which now uses AT&T's name, added 1.5 million customers. Cingular bought AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in 2004 for $41 billion, creating the largest U.S. mobile-phone service.
By JOE BEL BRUNO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street fell sharply Thursday, extending its weeks-long streak of volatility after disappointing home sales figures added to investors' increasing uneasiness about the mortgage and corporate lending markets. The Dow Jones industrials fell more than 300 points, while Treasury yields plunged as investors moved money from stocks to bonds.
Investors who had been able to shrug off concerns about subprime mortgage lending problems and a more difficult environment for corporate borrowing were clearly worried once again. Anxiety increased after the Commerce Department reported that sales of new homes fell 6.6 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 834,000 units, more than triple what had been expected and the largest percentage drop since sales fell by 12.7 percent in January.
Disappointing results from home builders including Pulte Homes Inc. and D.R. Horton Inc. - squeezed by a sluggish environment from home sales and continued defaults in subprime loans - weighed heavily on the market. Jitters also remain throughout the market that the number of private-equity deals - a main driver of the market's record run - might dry up because buyout shops are having difficulties accessing credit.
The Chicago PMI is produced by the The National Association of Purchasing Management - Chicago (NAPM) (www.napm-chicago.org) . The Chicago PMI gauges factory health in the upper Midwest. This data is sometimes confused with an index produced by NAPM's parent organization, The Institute of Supply Management ( ISM ), (www.ism.ws) , which produces the ISM PMI for manufacturing and Business Activity Index (aka non-manufacturing PMI or services PMI). The CHICAGO PMI is announced at the end of each month in The Chicago Report. The report appears on the last business day of the month Before January 2007 the release time was 10am U.S. Eastern time, 9am Chicago time. Starting January 2007 the release time was 9:45am U.S. Eastern time, 8:45am Chicago (Central) time. Chicago PMI is also referred to as The Business Barometertm. Recently the data has been calculated and presented by Kingsbury International Ltd. www.kingbiz.com/statistics.htm EconStats does not guarantee the accuracy of this data.
Importance (A-F): The Chicago PMI merits a B. Source: Chicago Purchasing Managers Association. Release Time: Last business day of the month at 10 ET for the current month.
In Brief
There are many regional manufacturing surveys, and they tend to be ranked in order of timeliness and the importance of the region. The Philadelphia Fed's survey is first each month, actually coming out during the third week of the month for which it is reporting. Several smaller surveys are then released before the Chicago purchasing managers' report on the last day of each month. A few, such as the Atlanta and Richmond Fed surveys, are released after the NAPM and are of little value. The purchasing managers' reports are measured like the national NAPM - 50% marks the breakeven line between an expanding and contracting manufacturing sector. For the Philadelphia and Atlanta Fed indices, 0 is the breakeven mark.
These surveys can be of some help in forecasting the national NAPM - particularly the Philadelphia and Chicago surveys which are more closely watched due to their timeliness and the fact that these regions represent a reasonable cross section of national manufacturing activities.
The Chicago NAPM index, which is released on the last business day of the month (with data for the same month), has an impressive 91% correlation with the national NAPM. The Philadelphia Fed index, which is released on the third Thursday of the month (with data for the same month), was a distant second at 76%. Philly Fed's performance improved slightly to 78% when Briefing measured its results using the NAPM methodology. The Philly index as released is not a composite of its subindices, as the NAPM is. Instead, the Philly Fed survey asks many questions, but the total index is based on the general question "are business conditions better or worse than last month." It is often the case that a weighted measure of the individual questions on specifics such as new orders and production moves in a different direction than the index based on the general question.
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