(Reuters) – Shares of LinkedIn Corp rose 10 percent on Friday, after the professional networking company raised its full-year outlook helped by strong demand for its services that help corporations…
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BY LAURA JANVIER ANCHOR MEGAN MURPHY Expectations were high, but the outcome — not so good. MSNBC reports, in the latest Gross Domestic Product — or GDP numbers — the US economy grew slower than expected. “First quarter GDP came in at 2.2 percent — that’s lower than expectations. And it’s lower than the 3 percent number registered in the fourth quarter of 2011. So. bad news, right? Well, the good news is that consumer spending continues to pick up.” ABC explains how the GDP numbers are stalling a faster economic recovery. “In reviewing the numbers, the fear now is that we may be running out of runway before the onset of another recession….what is becoming slightly concerning is that the unemployment rate is not decreasing at a fast enough rate. ” Bloomberg talks with professor Phillip Swagel who says it’s not a great report. “Its pretty underwhelming consumers were there but businesses were not, we saw the federal government subtract a bit and really getting nothing from the trade side exports and imports balanced out so it is definitely weaker than expected.” An analyst on Fox Business says, this is not all bad news. “Although the details were mixed, the GDP report offered a somewhat better picture of growth compared with the fourth quarter, when inventory building accounted for nearly two thirds of the economy’s growth.” Even though expectations didn’t meet predicted outcomes the quarterly growth was better this period. Forbes reports. “While the drop in GDP …

Shares in entertainment firm Workpoint Entertainment Pcl
surged almost 20 percent to an all-time high amid
expectations of good earnings boosted by strong advertising
growth, brokers said.
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 25 – Apple Inc’s
surprisingly strong performance in China has soothed fears that
iPhone sales were losing steam, though analysts wondered how
long Chief Executive Tim…
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NEW YORK – A measure of future economic growth rose in the latest week, as did the growth rate on an annualized basis, a research group said on Friday.
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NEW YORK – Businesses added more than 200,000 jobs in March, giving fresh evidence of recovery in the labor market, data showed on Wednesday.
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