What a difference a year can make in earnings expectations amid uncertainty over the global economy. Facebook (FB) and many semiconductor companies are heading into the Q4 earnings season with much higher expectations, according to upward EPS revisions. Thomson Reuters says Wall Street analysts now expect Facebook to earn 48 cents per share minus items in Q4, compared with 31 cents in Q4 2013. That’s an increase of 55%. A year ago, before
Monday brought a surprising turn to the twisting story of hepatitis C treatments, as pharmacy giant CVS Health said it will offer exclusive coverage for Gilead Sciences’ hep C drugs. But the key issue of price remained unanswered. The deal seemed to counterattack one cut two weeks ago between pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts (ESRX) and AbbVie (ABBV), days after the FDA OK’d AbbVie’s four-drug Viekira Pak for genotype 1 of the
Hackers who’ve long used malware to slip inside company computer networks are hunting down administrative and other privileged accounts, enabling them to go undetected for months, says a cybersecurity expert in a look ahead to the top threats of 2015. “Two hundred days of unfettered, malicious activity is a lot of time where hackers can really steal vital information, establish back doors, come in and out as they wish,” said