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米鉄道大手CSXの１－３月期、純利益30％減 景気低迷が鉄道貨物輸送に波及
CSX Profit Falls 30 Percent (The Journal of Commerce Online)
Rail giant CSX said its profit fell 30 percent to $246 million in the first three months of 2009, as revenue fell 17 percent to $2.25 billion.
Michael Ward, chairman, president and CEO of the eastern-U.S. carrier, said "we are taking tough actions to right-size our operations in this challenging environment."
CSX said its volume also fell 17 percent, “driven by significant weakness in industrial production, housing starts, and consumer spending, as well as in the agriculture and energy sectors.”
http://www.joc.com/node/410759
米ネット検索広告費、前年比13％減 １－３月期、後半から増加に転じる エフィシエントフロンティア報告
Search-advertising spending declines in quarter (MarketWatch)
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- A report released late Monday shows companies cut back sharply on buying Internet search advertising early in the first quarter, though an uptick later in the period may bode well for online search players including Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.
The report, from search engine marketing firm Efficient Frontier, noted that search-advertising spending in the quarter declined 13% compared to the same period a year earlier, and 3.3% compared to the fourth quarter of last year.
However, the report notes that spending rebounded 30% in February from a January low, and continued to climb some 6% in March.
www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Search-ad-spending-declines-first/story.aspx?guid=%7B5619973F-07B0-4507-A2B1-C5A2DE0EF7D9%7D
米J&Jの１－３月期、純利益2.5％減 CEO「リセッションの影響は拡大しない」
J&J CFO Says Slump’s Effect on Company Won’t Worsen (Bloomberg.com)
April 14 (Bloomberg) -- Johnson & Johnson doesn’t expect the recession’s effects to worsen and is counting on new drugs to stanch losses to generic rivals before the year ends, Chief Financial Officer Dominic Caruso said.
J&J affirmed its 2009 profit forecast of $4.45 to $4.55 a share, showing the world’s biggest health care company planned well for the sour economy, Caruso said in an interview today. First-quarter sales sank 7.2 percent, partly because of competition for the New Brunswick, New Jersey-based company’s prescription drugs and heart stents. The slide should ease by the end of the year if J&J wins approvals for treatments for arthritis, psoriasis and blood clots, Caruso said.
... J&J’s first-quarter profit of $3.5 billion, or $1.26 a share, beat analysts’ estimates by 4 cents. Earnings fell 2.5 percent as generic rivals siphoned drug sales and the dollar’s strength eroded the value of business outside the U.S. J&J beat estimates by cutting jobs, research and administrative spending, said Michael Weinstein, a JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyst, in a note.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a9DQ9KBqf9Xc&refer=us
米穀物大手カーギルの12－２月期、純利益68％減 肥料需要の低迷
Cargill Profit Plunges 68% on Lower Fertilizer Demand (Bloomberg.com)
April 14 (Bloomberg) -- Cargill Inc., the largest privately held U.S. company, said fiscal third-quarter profit plunged 68 percent because of lower demand for fertilizers.
Net income dropped to $326 million in the three months through February from a record $1.03 billion in the same period a year earlier, Minnetonka, Minnesota-based Cargill said today in a statement.
Cargill, which distributes and processes grains, said it has cut discretionary capital spending and cut its debt as the recession reduces demand for food. Corn, soybean and wheat prices declined from records last year, decreasing farmers’ incentive to buy crop nutrients from the company’s 64 percent- owned Mosaic Co. fertilizer unit.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aMIsIaGho7h8&refer=us
米インテルの１－３月期、純利益55％減 CEO「PC販売は１－３月期に底をつけ、従来の季節パターンに戻る」
Intel Calls A Bottom In PC Sales: "Returning To Normal Seasonal Patterns," Otellini Says (BusinessWeek)
Intel has called a bottom, but it doesn’t seem like the tech sector is quite out of the woods yet. Reporting quarterly earnings for its first fiscal quarter, the company reported a $647 million profit on sales of $7.1 billion.
The results exceeded the expectations of analysts who had forecast revenue of $6.98 billion and per-share earnings of 3 cents. Gross margins were 46%, representing a drop of 7% quarter-over-quarter. Profits were also down more than 50% quarter-on-quarter.
“We believe PC sales bottomed out during the first quarter and that the industry is returning to normal seasonal patterns,” CEO Paul Otellini said in a statement. “Intel has adapted well to the current economic environment and we’re benefiting from disciplined execution and agility.”
Intel’s outlook, or rather what little it was willing to share about its outlook, was cautious. The company declined to give a revenue projection for the current quarter, and said only that for internal purposes it expects revenue to “approximately flat,” from the first quarter. Gross margins it said will continue to be in the mid-40s.
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/04/intel_calls_a_b.html?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_news+%2B+analysis
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