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The market spent a totally schizoid week. It initially fell, with what are thought to be high-risk stocks taking the brunt of the selling. And then it turned. I was asked recently by a subscriber to compare this overall risk-off period to the crashes in 2001 and 2008. I was around for both of them.…

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OTEX

OTEX released earnings after the close. The headlines said that both earnings and revenues missed prior expectations and perhaps on some level they did. But peeling back the release a little bit, the truth is far different than the headlines. This was the quarter in which OTEX acquired Documentum. The transaction closed a couple of…

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IBM Q3 Earnings

IBM reported its Q3 results earlier this afternoon. The results were a beat compared to guidance of about 2% on both reported and 2% on revenues. That said, both earnings and revenues continued to fall from year earlier levels. Further, the beat was mainly a product of an extraordinary level of custom programming that IBM…

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Infosys (INFY) reported the results of its second fiscal quarter earlier today. The results showed EPS to be in line and with a revenue shortfall of $10 million on expectations that had been $2.6 billion. The company’s press release self-described market conditions as challenging and management reduced its revenue expectations for the balance of the…

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