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Corning Inc. on Wednesday lowered its third-quarter sales and earnings-per-share guidance to reflect slower shipments of glass used in flat-screen televisions and computers.

StreetInsider.com After-Hours Earnings Preview of the Day: While quarterly earnings per share and revenue results are often the most widely looked at metric of a company's financial position, Wall Street also considers other important factors such as guidance or margins, just to name a few.

As a result, stocks often trade wildly around an earnings announcement: seemingly weak sales and EPS numbers do not guarantee downside and could still cause a stock to trade higher due to a better-than-expected guidance range, for example.

StreetInsider.com After-Hours Earnings Preview of the Day: While quarterly earnings per share and revenue results are often the most widely looked at metric of a company's financial position, Wall Street also considers other important factors such as guidance or margins, just to name a few.

As a result, stocks often trade wildly around an earnings announcement: seemingly weak sales and EPS numbers do not guarantee downside and could still cause a stock to trade higher due to a better-than-expected guidance range, for example.

StreetInsider.com Earnings Preview of the Day: While quarterly earnings per share and revenue results are often the most widely looked at metric of a company's financial position, Wall Street also considers other important factors such as guidance or margins, just to name a few.

As a result, stocks often trade wildly around an earnings announcement: seemingly weak sales and EPS numbers do not guarantee downside and could still cause a stock to trade higher due to a better-than-expected guidance range, for example.

StreetInsider.com Earnings Preview of the Day: While quarterly earnings per share and revenue results are often the most widely looked at metric of a company's financial position, Wall Street also considers other important factors such as guidance or margins, just to name a few.

As a result, stocks often trade wildly around an earnings announcement: seemingly weak sales and EPS numbers do not guarantee downside and could still cause a stock to trade higher due to a better-than-expected guidance range, for example.

While quarterly earnings per share and revenue results are often the most widely looked at metric of a company's financial position, Wall Street also considers other important factors such as guidance or margins, just to name a few.

As a result, stocks often trade wildly around an earnings announcement: seemingly weak sales and EPS numbers do not guarantee downside and a stock could still trade higher due to a better-than-expected guidance range, for example.

Keeping this in mind, lets take a look at how Yahoo!'s (Nasdaq: YHOO) stock trades following an earnings report.

While quarterly earnings per share and revenue results are often the most widely looked at metric of a company's financial position, Wall Street also considers other important factors such as guidance or margins, just to name a few.

As a result, stocks often trade wildly around an earnings announcement: seemingly weak sales and EPS numbers do not guarantee downside and could still cause a stock to trade higher due to a better-than-expected guidance range, for example.

Keeping this in mind, lets take a look at how Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) stock trades following an earnings report.

StreetInsider.com Notable Mergers and Acquisitions of the Day:

• Roche (OTC: RHHBY) has proposed to acquire the outstanding publicly held interest in Genentech (NYSE: DNA) for US$89.00 per share in cash, or a total payment of approximately US$43.7 billion to equity holders of Genentech other than Roche.
  
  Roche acquired a majority in Genentech in 1990 and currently owns 55.9% of all outstanding shares. The transaction is expected to be accretive to Roche's earnings per share in the first year after closing.

A host of tech earnings results are pouring in from all corners, with some confidence-building numbers coming from United Technologies, Nokia and (especially) IBM.

Others were a mixed bag. Microsoft checked in with better-than-expected sales of $15.84 billion for the quarter and earnings-per-share (46 cents) was in the range of analyst expectations.

But Microsoft projects a softer year financially than most investors had anticipated, so weak guidance may be the culprit behind Microsoft’s stock being down 5% in after hours trading.

Belo reported earnings per share of $0.10 from continuing operations for the first quarter, before spinoff-related charges, compared with $0.15 in the first quarter of 2007.

Total revenues decreased 2% in the first quarter compared with the same quarter a year ago. Total spot revenue, including political, was down 5%.