Oracle's forecast helped give other software companies a lift.
Some market specialists said her forecast helped drive down stocks on Tuesday.
News of the conservative first-quarter forecast helped send the stock down another 90 cents in after-hours trading.
Another retailer, Limited Brands, posted quarterly earnings that exceeded its own forecast, helped by an increase in sales at existing stores.
That bleak forecast helped to bring in $27m a handsome sum for the two or three Iraqi refugees to enter Jordan since war began.
After a fall to near $120 per barrel in trading yesterday, a new Goldman Sachs forecast helped to push prices above $127 today.
Northrop beat Wall Street's quarterly profit forecasts and also raised its full-year profit forecast, helped by strong sales at its information technology and shipbuilding units.
The gloomy forecast helped depress stocks, particularly those in the retail sector, and the Dow Jones industrials were down about 220 points in late afternoon trading.
But management's disclosure last week that net income for the rest of the year would be lower than forecast helped push down the stock to $34.71 at Friday's close.
