Terrific Thursday

Today, several major players in our economy received good news about their earnings. Google posted second quarter earnings of $1.48 billion, and revenues were up 3%. Also, IBM posted earnings that increased to 12% up to $3.1 billion. However, IBM's revenues dropped 13%, but they are hopeful. They have already raised their forecast for the rest of 2009. DJIA +95.61 S&P 500 +8.06 NASDAQ +22.13