fiscal quarter

Higher sales at its gas stations and upscale stores helped boost grocer Safeway Inc.'s profit nearly 3 percent in its third fiscal quarter.

StreetInsider.com Unusual 11 Mid-Day Movers: China Shenghuo Pharmaceutical Holdings, Inc. (Amex: KUN) 28% LOWER; announced today that the filing of its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2008 would be delayed beyond the filing deadline.

Verifone (NYSE: PAY) 24% HIGHER; sees Q4 EPS of $0.36 to $0.39, versus the analyst estimate of $0.21. Sees revenues for the quarter were $260 million to $268 million, versus the consensus of $229.6 million.

Whole Foods Market Inc. reports earnings for the third fiscal quarter on Tuesday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.

Apple said it shipped 2.2 million Macs in its second fiscal quarter of 2008, increasing sales by 51 percent over the same quarter in 2007.

Globally, Apple sold 856,000 desktops during the quarter, and 1.4 million notebooks-year-to-year increases of 37 percent and 61 percent respectively.  The total of 2.29 million Macs was just below the record 2.32 million sold in the last three months of 2007

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