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Sun up or Sun down?
There was some comparatively good news from Sun, which reported a net loss of $209m on revenue down
10.9% at $3.2bn. As Sam Diaz at ZDnet notes,
however, “after excluding one-time costs related to recent
layoffs and other costs, the company posted a profit of 15 cents
per share, beating analysts’ expectations of a 10 cent loss”. In
regular trading, shares of Sun were up more than 5%.
Matt Asay noted the impact open …
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