Thursday, July 19, 2007

US STOCKS-Forecast-topping profits lift Wall Street

(Reuters) - NEW YORK, July 19 - U.S. stocks rose on Thursday
after forecast-topping results from companies such as IBM and
Juniper Networks shifted investor focus back on to earnings
optimism, away from subprime jitters.




Shares of International Business Machines Corp. ,
the world's largest technology services company, rose 4.2
percent after it posted a jump in quarterly profit and raised
its 2007 earnings forecast. For details, see [ID:nN18415715].


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