The week ahead: Earnings brewing
The week's financial calendar includes earnings from uberportal Yahoo, which is looking for results from a blizzard of recent revenue-boosting moves.
Following are some of the notable tech-related events scheduled for the week of Oct. 7 through Oct. 11. The whole family has gathered to pay respects to your Aunt Minnie. Memories and casseroles abound, occasional tears are daubed with hankies, and everyone agrees it was a mistake to take up ice climbing at her age. But you sit glued to your laptop, pecking away at your browser as you search for a better deal at coffins4less.com.
Or at least that's the way it could turn out, pending the results of Federal Trade Commissions hearings this week to consider competition in Internet sales of--among other items--caskets.
Speaking of moribund, next week's financial calendar includes earnings announcements from several biggies in the communications sector, but the big news is uberportal Yahoo, looking for results from a blizzard of recent revenue-boosting initiatives. And the CEOs of Microsoft, Intel, Dell Computer, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard will all try to read the high-tech tea leaves at a symposium conducted by research firm Gartner.
The information was gathered from First Call, Hoover's Online, CCBN's StreetEvents and CNET Investor.
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- Research firm Gartner takes the pulse of the technology industry at Symposium/Itxpo 2002, running Oct. 6-11 in Orlando, Fla. Keynote speakers include Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Intel CEO Craig Barrett and Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.
Monday, Oct. 7
- Fashion and function merge at the International Symposium on Wearable Computers, which includes a demonstration of something called a "parasitic humanoid." The conference runs Oct. 7-10 in Seattle.
Tuesday, Oct. 8
- The Federal Trade Commission plans to hold a public workshop to discuss competition in Internet sales of contact lenses, real estate and, yes, caskets. It happens Oct. 8-10 at FTC headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, Oct. 9
- How do you really know who's on the other end of that fiber optic line? Hear some new ideas at Digital ID World, an exploration of current and future identification technologies. It runs Oct. 9-11 in Denver.
Thursday, Oct. 10
- Explore the thriving world of content management software, applications that help a business organize its digital assets, at the Content Management Summit, a one-day seminar in New York.
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Monday, Oct. 7
- Entegris makes semiconductor manufacturing components and equipment. It's expected to report earnings of 5 cents a share for its fourth quarter and 3 cents a share for the 2002 fiscal year.
Wednesday, Oct. 9
- Infosys Technologies sells IT consulting services. It's expected to report a second-quarter profit of 34 cents a share.
Thursday, Oct. 10
- Juniper Networks sells network routers and software. It's expected to report a third-quarter loss of 2 cents a share.
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- Consumer Credit is the total level of debt held by U.S. consumers. The August total is expected to dip to $9.5 billion, from $10.8 billion the previous month.
Thursday, Oct. 10
- Initial Claims is the weekly total of new claims filed for unemployment compensation. The total is expected to dip to 415,00 for the week ended Oct. 5, from 417,000 the previous week.
Friday, Oct. 11
- The Producer Price Index is a broad measure of the price of goods at the wholesale level. September figures are expected to show a 0.1 percent decline, after flat growth the previous month.