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Earnings Guidance Is Collapsing: Factset's Butters ... - Yahoo! Finance

Trailing earnings results get the headlines, but for professional investors, what happened last quarter is nothing compared to company guidance for quarters to come. From that perspective the decent earnings we've seen thus far are masking a grim first quarter.

"We've had 61 companies overall issue guidance, 50 of those have been negative," says John Butters, senior earnings analyst at FactSet, in the attached video. That works out to more than 80% warnings versus hikes, much higher than the 61% of companies trimming estimates during an average quarter.

As always the excuses are all over the board. Weather, sales cycle and lingering effects of the fiscal cliff debate have all been cited by different companies. Butters says the theme running through most of the warnings are stubborn weakness in Europe, the global economy, and a dash of whimpering about currency exchange rates being less favorable.

Related: Earnings Scorecard -Results Are Back to Average

The plus side is increasing confidence in Emerging Markets (EEM), particularly in China. Butters ticks off General Electric (GE), DuPont (DD) and Alcoa (AA) as three of a slew of industrial companies looking for a more steady period of growth from overseas, ex-Europe.

The worst sector by far in terms of weakness is Health Care & Pharma (XLV) where nearly 9 out of 10 companies issuing a forecast have taken numbers lower. Weak pipelines, bad government policy, foreign concerns and most everything else have been blamed.

All this warning obviously hits the overall earnings growth rate for the S&P 500. Going into the reporting season Butters says analysts were looking for 2.5% growth in both revenues and EPS for the first quarter of 2013. That number is now 0.5% and not likely to move any higher.

As it stands, the S&P500 has gained more than 5% for the year while earnings estimates have been cut by 80%. In a rational world, one of those measures would have to change. In the market we live in the disconnect can last indefinitely.

Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/earnings-guidance-collapsing-factset-butters-134900227.html

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Walters hopes to return to 'The View' in 3 weeks

FILE - This June 23, 2012 file photo shows Barbara Walters presenting an award onstage at the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. Walters, who has been battling the Chicken Pox, will not return to her daytime talk show "The View," for three more weeks. She was hospitalized on Jan. 19 after fainting and cutting her head at a pre-inaugural party in Washington. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, file)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Barbara Walters isn't "scratching too much" from chickenpox, but she says she won't be back at "The View" for three more weeks.

Walters phoned into the ABC talk show Wednesday. Calling from her home, she reported that she's weak but not in any pain.

She was hospitalized on Jan. 19 after fainting and cutting her head at a party in Washington. The 83-year-old has said she had the chickenpox and a temperature at the time, but didn't realize it. She suffered a concussion and got six stitches. She was released 10 days later.

She announced Wednesday: "I'm not itching away."

Then she marveled that the best remedy for itching is an age-old one, saying: "We have Facebook, Twitter and calamine lotion."

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Super Bowl falls short of ratings record

Baltimore Ravens defensive end Arthur Jones (97) kisses the Vince Lombardi Trophy after defeating the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 in the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

Beyonce performs with Kelly Rowland, left, and Michelle Williams, right, of Destiny's Child, during the halftime show of the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco (5) embraces linebacker Ray Lewis after defeating the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 in the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Chart shows viewership numbers per Super Bowl game

NEW YORK (AP) ? With a partial power outage, an overly excited quarterback and a game that suddenly turned from snoozer to sizzler, CBS had its hands full at the Super Bowl. The game fell short of setting a viewership record, but it stands as the third most-watched program in U.S. television history.

The Nielsen Co. said an estimated 108.4 million people watched the Baltimore Ravens' 34-31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers. The most-watched events in U.S. TV history were last year's game, seen by 111.3 million, and the 2010 game, with 111 million viewers.

CBS had hoped to make it the fourth year in a row that football's ultimate game broke the record for most-watched event in American television history. But pro football ratings in general have been down slightly this year.

When the Ravens' Jacoby Jones returned the opening kickoff of the second half for a touchdown and gave his team a 28-6 lead, CBS' dream of a ratings record surely became even more distant. And then half the lights went out. CBS' ratings immediately dipped by two full ratings points in the overnight measurement of big cities.

When the lights returned, so did the 49ers. They quickly jumped back in the game and CBS' audience, no doubt fueled by social media chatter, came back, too. CBS was blessed with the dream of every network that telecasts the Super Bowl: a game that isn't decided until the final play.

CBS had a moment of dead air when the field darkened, since power was lost in the control booth where Jim Nantz and Phil Simms worked. After a commercial break, sideline anchor Steve Tasker appeared to say there had been a power outage. CBS then filled time with its football pregame team, showing highlights and speculating on how the delay would affect the teams.

At the precise moment the lights went out, CBS' Armen Keteyian was in the NFL's control booth, conducting an interview with Frank Supovitz, senior vice president of the NFL in charge of events.

"In the NFL control room, there was no panic, but there was an undeniable amount of uncertainty about the cause," Keteyian said Monday on "CBS This Morning." Keteyian was filming for a "60 Minutes Sports" report scheduled to be aired Wednesday on Showtime. CBS News did not participate in live coverage of the power outage.

The power outage was an immediate hot topic for quips and questions online. There were an estimated 47.7 million social media posts during the game, according to the company Trendrr TV, which tracks activity on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks. That compares with 17 million during last year's game and 3 million in 2010, Trendrr said.

Baltimore had the highest rating of any individual city, Nielsen said. San Francisco was not among the top 10 cities in ratings.

CBS showcased its freshman drama, "Elementary," to an estimated audience of 20.8 million people after the game. That was markedly down from the 37.6 million who watched "The Voice" on NBC after the 2011 game or the 26.8 million who saw "Glee" on Fox in 2010. CBS noted that the drama did not begin until 11:11 p.m. on the East Coast because of the Superdome power outage.

CBS drew criticism from the Parents Television Council for not editing out a profanity said by Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco shortly after the game. Flacco was caught by microphones describing his team's victory as "f------ awesome."

"No one should be surprised that a jubilant quarterback might use profane language while celebrating a career-defining win, but that is precisely the reason why CBS should have taken some precautions," said Tim Winter, president of the lobbying group, asking for the Federal Communications Commission to rebuke CBS.

The network had no immediate comment Monday on the complaint.

CBS has said it was airing the pregame, postgame and halftime portions of the show on tape delay to guard against the use of bad language or wardrobe malfunctions. The postgame delay does not begin until the first block of commercials after the game, which hadn't happened before Flacco's expletive.

CBS' Craig Ferguson was quick to poke fun at the power outage on his comedy show, which aired after "Elementary." He was shown plugging actress Lucy Liu's cellphone charger into a power outlet at the Superdome, despite instructions not to use it.

"It's one outlet," Ferguson said. "What could possibly go wrong?"

The picture switched to the lights going out in half the dome.

Associated Press

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Klondike, puppy born from a frozen embryo, fetches good news for endangered animals

Feb. 5, 2013 ? Meet Klondike, the western hemisphere's first puppy born from a frozen embryo. He's a beagle-Labrador retriever mix, and although neither of those breeds are endangered, Klondike's very existence is exciting news for endangered canids, like the red wolf.

Now nine months old, Klondike's beagle mother was fertilized using artificial insemination. The resulting embryos were collected and frozen until Klondike's surrogate mother, also a beagle, was ready to receive the embryo.

This frozen embryo technique is one of many reproductive technologies that can be used to conserve endangered species such as wild canids. Conducted by researchers at Cornell's Baker Institute for Animal Health and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, the process of freezing materials such as fertilized eggs -- cryopreservation -- provides researchers with a tool to repopulate endangered species. Because dogs cycle are able to sustain a pregnancy only once or twice a year, being able to freeze canine embryos is especially important to coordinate timing for transfer into the surrogates.

"Reproduction in dogs is remarkably different than in other mammals," said Alex Travis, Baker faculty member and Director of Cornell's campus-wide Center for Wildlife Conservation. "We're working to understand these differences so we can tackle issues ranging from developing contraceptives to preserving the genetic diversity of endangered animals through assisted reproduction."

This research is funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, Cornell's Baker Institute and the Smithsonian Institution, and is part of a new, joint program to train the next generation of scientists to solve real world problems in conservation.

The Baker Institute for Animal Health of The College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell is one of the oldest research centers dedicated to the study of veterinary infectious diseases, immunology, genetics and reproduction. For more information about veterinary medicine at Cornell, visit: http://www.vet.cornell.edu

For information about the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, visit: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/scbi/default.cfm

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Green tea and red wine extracts interrupt Alzheimer's disease pathway in cells

Feb. 5, 2013 ? Natural chemicals found in green tea and red wine may disrupt a key step of the Alzheimer's disease pathway, according to new research from the University of Leeds.

In early-stage laboratory experiments, the researchers identified the process which allows harmful clumps of protein to latch on to brain cells, causing them to die. They were able to interrupt this pathway using the purified extracts of EGCG from green tea and resveratrol from red wine.

The findings, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, offer potential new targets for developing drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease, which affects some 800,000 people in the UK alone, and for which there is currently no cure.

"This is an important step in increasing our understanding of the cause and progression of Alzheimer's disease," says lead researcher Professor Nigel Hooper of the University's Faculty of Biological Sciences. "It's a misconception that Alzheimer's is a natural part of aging; it's a disease that we believe can ultimately be cured through finding new opportunities for drug targets like this."

Alzheimer's disease is characterised by a distinct build-up of amyloid protein in the brain, which clumps together to form toxic, sticky balls of varying shapes. These amyloid balls latch on to the surface of nerve cells in the brain by attaching to proteins on the cell surface called prions, causing the nerve cells to malfunction and eventually die.

"We wanted to investigate whether the precise shape of the amyloid balls is essential for them to attach to the prion receptors, like the way a baseball fits snugly into its glove," says co-author Dr Jo Rushworth. "And if so, we wanted to see if we could prevent the amyloid balls binding to prion by altering their shape, as this would stop the cells from dying."

The team formed amyloid balls in a test tube and added them to human and animal brain cells. Professor Hooper said: "When we added the extracts from red wine and green tea, which recent research has shown to re-shape amyloid proteins, the amyloid balls no longer harmed the nerve cells. We saw that this was because their shape was distorted, so they could no longer bind to prion and disrupt cell function.

"We also showed, for the first time, that when amyloid balls stick to prion, it triggers the production of even more amyloid, in a deadly vicious cycle," he added.

Professor Hooper says that the team's next steps are to understand exactly how the amyloid-prion interaction kills off neurons.

"I'm certain that this will increase our understanding of Alzheimer's disease even further, with the potential to reveal yet more drug targets," he said.

Dr Simon Ridley, Head of Research at Alzheimer's Research UK, the UK's leading dementia research charity, which part-funded the study, said: "Understanding the causes of Alzheimer's is vital if we are to find a way of stopping the disease in its tracks. While these early-stage results should not be a signal for people to stock up on green tea and red wine, they could provide an important new lead in the search for new and effective treatments. With half a million people affected by Alzheimer's in the UK, we urgently need treatments that can halt the disease -- that means it's crucial to invest in research to take results like these from the lab bench to the clinic."

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Jo V. Rushworth, Heledd H. Griffiths, Nicole T. Watt and Nigel M. Hooper. Prion protein-mediated neurotoxity of amyloid-? oligomers requires lipid rafts and the transmembrane LRP1. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2013 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.400358

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What women can do to stop hair loss | Health and Fitness

Quoted from page?nbcnews.com , we normally have, on average, 100,000 hairs on our scalp. And as evinced by our changing hair lengths, roots and visits to our hairdressers, those hairs grow; in fact, 90 percent of our hair is actively growing at any given time. Hair is the second fastest growing tissue in our body after (I?d love for you to guess) ? bone marrow. To keep its place on your head, your hair needs the right conditions. (Note I didn?t say conditioner.) You may find that you?re unexpectedly losing hair if you impose restrictions on hair growth or if your genes are such that continued hair growth is not in your destiny.

There?s a simple test you can do to help determine whether you are losing hair, it?s just thinning or you are damaging it by abusive hair products or pulling it too tight (which can occur with braiding). Pull on several strands of your hair ? do they come out easily at the root? If so, it suggests that the hairs are indeed ?shedding? and have gone into what we call an excess telogen phase. To explain this telogen phenomenon, I must first go into hair physiology 101. As hair actively grows, it?s in the anagen phase.

Each hair is connected to a hair shaft (or follicle), which remains in its secure position in the scalp for three to seven years before falling out and being replaced by a new follicle. Once the anagen phase naturally runs its course, there?s a two-week catagen phase, in which the hair follicle dies. The hair then goes into the telogen phase for the next three months, during which time it falls out. Normally we lose 100 telogen hairs a day, but in certain cases (and this sounds like your situation), many, if not most, of the hairs go into the telogen phase. This causes alopecia (balding). The condition of overwhelming telogen loss is termed telogen effluvium; the anagen to telogen ratio has gone from its normal 90:10 to 70:30 or less. If I do the math correctly, this means you lose at least 300 hairs a day, compared to 100 hairs. Some sort of stress or medication that started three months before you see the actual hair loss usually causes telogen effluvium. And there are many stresses that can lead to this condition.

These include all major illnesses, especially if you?re bedridden and/or have a high fever, surgery, childbirth (giving birth can be stressful, but the hair loss is also due to the body?s reaction to a sudden loss of hormones after delivery), rapid weight loss, nutrition deficiencies (we see this more in vegetarians who don?t get enough iron or protein), or hemorrhage and subsequent anemia. Hormonal changes often have a negative effect on hair. Hair loss occurs with thyroid disorders or in instances when there is a sudden cessation or change in hormones (such as stopping the birth control pill, surgical menopause, discontinuing hormone therapy and, as I stated above, after childbirth).

Source: http://superrookiedome.com/what-women-can-do-to-stop-hair-loss/

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Wellness Wednesday: The Emotional Affect of Long-distance ...

heart With Valentines Day coming up, it?s a good time to talk about relationships in the context of studying abroad. All relationships experience ups and downs- it?s during these major periods of discomfort and challenge that you?re most likely to see whether a relationship can stand up to the test. Studying abroad is one of those tests! It brings the question to mind, ?does absence make the heart grow fonder?? If there were anytime to ask yourself that question, it would be when you?re in a long-distance relationship while you are studying abroad.

Major periods of transition, i.e. studying abroad and being away from each other for long periods of time, serve as a true measure of the foundation of your relationship. Key elements that are being challenged are: how compatible you are with your partner, how comfortable each of you are with change and how you handle it, and if that relationship will gel with the experiences you?re having while globetrotting.

Let?s not kid ourselves; it?s really tough to be away from someone you care about for long periods of time. The longing you?re experiencing shows how much you really value that person in your life. Even though the pain of long distance hurts, how you handle it shows a lot about yourself and your partner during times of strain. The reactions seen during this period can be indicative of how well suited you are for each other when the going gets tough. It?s a good learning experience to see how you and your partner can manage the discomfort, and believe me, those skills will serve you well in the future.

Being homesick, especially for someone you care about, is not enjoyable, but rest assured you are not alone in your pain. As I?ve mentioned in this article about managing depression while overseas, if you?re ever feeling very depressed about missing your partner to the point you feel you can?t manage it, please reach out for help to either your friends, program leader, or a counselor. Having someone to talk to about what you?re feeling and to give you a big hug can go a long way! The key during these down in the dump moments is to keep busy! Exercise, go see new sights, or hangout with friends. It?ll ease your mind about missing your significant other.

If you didn?t already do so before you left for your host country, address these things with your partner sooner rather than later:

-?????? What?s the status of the relationship? (i.e. monogamously committed, open relationship, etc.)

-?????? How often will you be in contact with each other?

-?????? How will you contact each other? (i.e. Skype, email, Facebook chat, etc.)

-?????? Will your partner come visit you in your host country?

Don?t worry, there are ways to manage those long-distance woes! It?s very important to have healthy boundaries in place during a major transition like this, because without them, there is bound to be confusion or potentially hurt feelings that may ensue. Don?t forget to take care of not only yourself, but your partner too! If you?re ever feeling down and really missing your significant other, make sure you have pictures of them to look at or trinkets that remind you of them. A fun way to show your partner you really miss them is to buy a locally made gift that is symbolic of the host country you?re living in and send it to them as a surprise! There are lots of positive ways to ease the transition of being away from each other that will not only show that you are thinking of one another, but your partner back home will have a piece of your study abroad journey to cherish for themselves!

Also, for those of you who are studying abroad, remember that you are having the adventure of a lifetime! While your partner will miss you a lot, the sign of a great relationship is when your partner wants you to do great things for personal development that will push you to be the best version of yourself. Allow yourself room to breathe while you?re away! Just because you?re off writing one of the best chapters of your life in a far away land, doesn?t mean that you?re putting less value or importance on your relationships at home. Each relationship is unique, so come up with whatever works best for you as a couple and respect those boundaries. Every single relationship is different, so it heeds no benefit to either person in the relationship to compare yourselves to other people who are in a similar situation. It?s very useful to practice adaptability and resiliency during these types of experiences.

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Since it?s 2013, we all know there have been stellar developments in the online communication realm. The best part is ? a lot of the best ones are free!? Here are a few ways that you can keep in touch with your sweetie pie while you?re away:

Voxer: a free smart phone app that serves as a walkie-talkie. You can record short voice messages that you can instantly send in real-time to anyone else who has the Voxer app on their smart phone anywhere in the world!
Skype: a free computer-to-computer telephone/video chat program. In case you want to use your Skype account to dial an actual telephone, you can load up your Skype account with money to do so.
All forms of email: Gmail seems to be the most comprehensive email account that also has voice and video functions for free.

As someone who has been in a long distance relationship, I can tell you first hand it has its positives and negatives. While it was a tough experience to go through, it made me learn a lot about myself, what types of people I?m really compatible with, and how I deal with those types of changes. I know a lot of people who have done long distance relationships during study abroad as well. Some of them stood the test of time, and upon the study abroader?s return, continued on their normal course. My own parents did long distance for 2 years during graduate school, and through that test of their relationship, are now approaching their 38^th year of marriage. Other people, during their study abroad experience, decided ultimately that they were going on a different direction in their life and chose to move on. I encourage you not to be scared of these potential changes! These movements have purpose behind them ? pay attention to and value where they guide you.

I leave you with the wise words of French memoirist Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, who can describe what I?m talking about the best. ?Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great.?

Tags: dating, long distance relationship

Source: http://blog.studyabroad101.com/2013/02/wellness-wednesday-the-emotional-affect-of-long-distance-relationships-during-study-abroad/

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