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Beijing time May 19 Evening news, building construction and building permits in April, the number of new low, the result is lower than market expectations, prompting investors to question the U.S. economy. US-East Time Tuesday 9:30 (Beijing time May 19 21:30), the Dow Jones industrial average fell 10.68 points to 8493.4 points, or 0.13%; the Nasdaq composite index fell 7.3 points to 1725.06, or 0.42%. The standard and poor 500 index dropped 0.04 points to 909.67, or 0%.

Beijing time Tuesday Evening News, media technology company Macrovision Solutions Corp (MVSN) said it plans to change the company name to Rovi, but first to be held July 15 at the annual shareholder meeting to obtain approval. The company said its trading code on the Nasdaq stock market would also change if the new name were approved.

Beijing time May 19 Evening News, Solarfun New Energy (Solarfun power Holdings Co.)　　(Solf) announced losses in the first quarter as customers cut inventories and cut purchases, but less than Wall Street analysts had expected.　　As of 10:02 (Beijing time 10:02), the company's shares rose 61 cents to $5.68. The company reported a net loss of 7.1 million yuan (about $1 million) in the first quarter as at March 31, compared with a profit of 1.0 in the same period last year.

Howard Chen, the Swiss credit analyst, raised his earnings forecasts for Morgan Stanley (MS) in Beijing time, May 19 Evening News.　　Not long ago, the analyst negotiated with the bank's management on how to improve the company's operations. The analyst raised JPMorgan's target share price from 26 to $28 and kept the company's stock rating "neutral".　Earlier, he met with Morgan Stanley's chief financial officer, Colm-Coral (Colm Kelleher). ...

Beijing time Tuesday Evening News, AmerisourceBergen Corp. announced that it would carry out a split of two shares in its common stock and would raise its dividend by 20% from the third quarter to 6 cents per share.　　The company reiterated that it is expected to continue operations in the 2009 fiscal year after diluted earnings per share of 3.18-3.30 U.S. dollars, or split earnings per share of 1.59-1.65 U.S. dollars. The company is earning $2.89 per share in fiscal 2008, or 1.44 dollars per share after the split adjustment.

"MarketWatch New York May 19," Beijing time May 19 Evening news, high-end goods retailer Saks Inc. (SKS) reported losses in the first quarter as wealthy customers cut spending, but its performance remained better than Wall Street analysts had expected. The company announced that, as of May 2, the first quarter, the loss of 5.1 million U.S. dollars, the loss of 4 cents per share, and the same period last year, profits of 17.3 million U.S. dollars, the earnings of 12 cents per share.　　Revenue from the first quarter fell 27% from $850 million a year earlier, to $621.3 million trillion. This ...

Beijing time Tuesday Evening News, the world's largest household goods retailer Home Depot (HD) announced that the first quarter net profit growth of 44%, from the same period of 356 million U.S. dollars, 21 cents per share, increased to 514 million U.S. dollars, combined with 30 cents per share.　　Last year's results included a total of $543 million trillion in spending associated with the previously announced closure of the store and the contraction of future store growth plans.　　After deducting one-off items, earnings per share fell from 41 cents a year earlier to 35 cents.　　Quarterly revenue fell 9.7% to $16.2 billion. With the shop sales ...

"MarketWatch New York May 19," Beijing time May 19 Evening News, U.S. discount retailer TJX Co.s (TJX) announced in Tuesday, the first quarter profit of 209 million U.S. dollars, 49 cents per share earnings, the same period last year, profits 194 million U.S. dollars, 43 cents per share earnings.　　sales rose from 4.3 billion dollars to 4.4 billion dollars.　　The company's earnings per share in the first quarter grew by 14%.　　TJX said the same store sales rose 2% in the first quarter. Prior to the average market expected TJX first quarter of every ...

Beijing time Tuesday Evening News, the United States (MDT) announced that the fourth quarter net profit from the same period of 812 million U.S. dollars, 72 cents per share, to 250 million U.S. dollars, 22 cents per share.　　After deducting one-off items, the company earned 916 million dollars a quarter, 82 cents a share.　　Quarterly revenue fell 1% to $3.8 billion. Analysts surveyed by FactSet Research average expect the company to earn 81 cents a share in the quarter, with a revenue of 3.8 billion dollars.

"MarketWatch in New York May 19," Ronald Logue of the bank, the mood should be good. In Monday, his bank announced plans to repay the money it received from the tarp.　　Once the whole process is over, banks will no longer have to be bound by the government on pay issues.　　In fact, it was already doomed to start the day, when Daofu (STT) passed the government stress test and was found to be no longer in need of additional capital. But, in this plan, also not ...

Beijing time May 19 Evening news, Italian carmaker Fiat (Fiat SpA) CEO Segio Machioni (Sergio Marchionne), said in Tuesday, the company will not be paid in cash to its Opel Department of General Motors offer,　　It also said the value of the assets offered by the company would be much higher than the value of cash. In an interview today in Frankfurt, Marchionne said he had not formally launched an offer to the Opel division, "We are still considering the specifics." "Prior to that, the German government had the Opel sector last ...

"MarketWatch New York May 19," The US-East time Tuesday evening 8:30 (Beijing time May 19 20:30) News, the U.S. Department of Commerce released an estimate that the United States April new housing construction figures to a record low. The number of new homes opened in April decreased by 12.8%, and the annual rate fell to 458,000.　　The number of new homes opened in April was the lowest level since the Ministry of Commerce began publishing the data in 1959.　　Economists who had previously MarketWatch the average expected that the number of new homes to be built in April would be 519,000. ...

The two major factors of Shanxi province and the summer coal season are superimposed, it's hot. The coal market reporter 19th learned that the peak season will be stimulated, the middleman "stockpile coal" volume is increasing, thus Qinhuangdao port coal inventory has rebounded to nearly 4.2 million tons, compared to the end of April rebounded nearly 20%. "According to the recent 1-4-month-old coal production data released in Shanxi province, it shows that Shanxi's consolidation of small coal mines has never been more forceful. Everbright Securities coal industry analyst Chen Liang pointed out that April Shanxi coal production only 42.09 million tons, the last 4 years, the lowest level in the same period. In fact, from the end of last year ...

Beijing time Evening News according to government reports, the United States April housing start rate unexpectedly hit a record low, hitting the previous housing market stabilisation expectations.

Beijing time May 19 Evening News, according to foreign media reports, 2008 Nobel laureate in Economics, Paul Krugman, said in Tuesday, the U.S. economy may emerge from the recession as early as this summer, but a further rise in unemployment means the "economic downturn" will likely continue for the longest 5 years.　　Speaking at the Global Finance conference in Seoul, South Korea, Mr Krugman said the U.S. or global industrial output would likely hit bottom in the next few months, with U.S. GDP growth expected to turn positive in the second half of the year, perhaps slightly later than in Europe. ...

Beijing time Tuesday Evening News, FBR Capital Markets Corp (FBCM) announced that it will be a total of 72.5 million U.S. dollars from the Arlington Asset Investment Company (Arlington Asset Investment Corp.) repurchase 16.7 million shares.　　As part of a strategic separation plan being implemented, the two companies will also terminate some of the service and management agreements. FBR Capital will buy back these shares at a price of $4.35 a share, compared with its Monday $4.60 ...

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In Beijing time Tuesday Evening News, Virgin Media Inc. announced that Vmed, Chief financial officer Jerry Eliot, had tendered his resignation for family health reasons and his resignation would take effect on May 31.　　The company said recruitment for Eliot's successor would begin soon. Rick Martin, the incumbent treasurer, will temporarily lead the company's capital markets and financial functions, and the incumbent, Robert Gale, will be the chief financial officer responsible for financial reporting ...

The new flagship center of the Shanghai Composite index of the early morning direct jump air high to create a 2,688-point highs, but then did not connect to accelerate the impact of the acceleration, but many times on the day of the jump on the gap to draw back, and finally failed to fully fill out a narrow range of fluctuations in the high open　　The active degree of hot spot in the stock index to continue to steadily rebound, non-ferrous metals, new materials and other plates began the overall strength, coupled with the improvement of blue chips, the market continues to maintain the characteristics of shock upward. From today's panel observation, last night the U.S. Dow Jones back to the trend support area after the rapid rebound, directly with ...

Beijing time May 19 Evening News, an unnamed senior U.S. government official said late Monday, President Barack Obama will be in Tuesday to propose a policy package, which will include the most aggressive plans to improve fuel efficiency of U.S. auto fuels,　　The first direct monitoring of vehicle emission standards and the resolution of California State in the clean car dispute. According to the new measure, the average fuel standard for all new cars and light cards will be increased by 10 miles per gallon to 3 per gallon in 2012-2016 years, the official said.