The performance beat projections by analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial/First Call.
Before November was out, the weekly tally was edging toward $7,000, beating projections by $1,000.
Sales of database software beat projections, while those for applications software grew less than expected.
Sales at J. C. Penney stores rose 1.1percentt, beating projections for unchanged sales.
The results, announced yesterday, beat projections from Wall Street analysts, who had expected that the reported loss would be larger.
Although the early signs are good, it is too soon to say whether Lin can beat projections.
At the J. C. Penney Company, which is trying to emerge from a three-year sales slump, sales rose 1.1percentt at its department stores, beating projections for unchanged sales.
— Virginia is on track to enroll 375,000 low-income residents under its expanded Medicaid program by July 2020, beating projections of what expansion would look like when the state Assembly approved the move earlier this year.
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" was expected by some analysts to repeat for a fourth week as the most popular movie in the land, but "Texas Chainsaw 3D" (Lionsgate) beat projections and took in an estimated $23 million for No. 1. ("Massacre" was dropped from the title after the Colorado movie theater shootings last summer).
Facebook's earnings beat projections for the 8th quarter straight with $2.91B in revenue and $0.42EPS inQ2201414.
In Q4, Facebook successfully grew overall revenue fast enough to beat projections, while simultaneously transitioning its revenue source from web to mobile at a healthy rate.
