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UPDATED: CBS Corp.'s third-quarter earnings jumped 38%, fueled by revenue from digital streaming...

Earnings are "solid" despite local and national spot both...

Time Warner Cable kicked off the third-quarter earnings season Thursday morning with mixed...

Chemical maker DuPont says strong demand for its agricultural products helped boost third-quarter earnings 23 percent.

Apple will release its Fiscal Year Third Quarter earnings report and call this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. PDT/5:00 p.m.

EDT.

Following first-quarter earnings that sent investors and the media into a tizzy, analyst coverage of RIM has been fairly monotone.

The consensus? The company is doomed. However, analysts at Macquarie Capital Markets paint a different picture of RIM’s business.

Taxpayers still own a third of the company, but the investment is improving. General Motors reported first quarter earnings of $3.2 billion, its fifth consecutive profitable quarter and its best quarter in more than a decade.

This report is an intraday check of some of the more notable stocks that have hit a 52-week high or low so far today. 52-Week High:

• SIRIUS XM Radio Inc.
  
  (Nasdaq: SIRI) high of $2.09. Though slumping pre-market today, Sirius has rebounded to a new 52-week high today.
  
  Sirius reported first-quarter earnings of $0.01 per share, on revenues of $723.8 million. The consensus was looking for EPS of $0.01 and revs pf $736.34 million.
  
  Despite the results, Sirius affirmed its FY11 outlook. Ending subs in the quarter were up 9 percent year-over-year.

April 29 -- Tony Ursillo, an analyst at Loomis Sayles & Co, talks about Microsoft Corp.'s third-quarter earnings reported yesterday and the need for the software maker to 'capitalize' on the tablet computer market.

Morgan Stanley, which like its peers is still feeling the aftereffects of the financial crisis, said first-quarter earnings fell to $736 million from $1.4 billion in the period a year earlier.