Powerade is the world's No. 2 sports drink by sales, trailing Gatorade, sold by a division of PepsiCo.
HONDA Although its sales dropped in line with the industry, Honda passed Chrysler to grab fourth place in American sales, trailing G.M., Toyota and Ford.
Shares of Advanced Micro Devices fell 4.2percentt after the company, the world's second-biggest maker of personal-computer processors, said quarterly sales trailed a forecast reduced 15 days ago.
The department stores Nordstrom and J. C. Penney led retailers to their steepest fall since Sept. 25 after last month's sales trailed analysts' estimates.
Parametric Technology, whose software helps engineers design products, said fiscal third-quarter profit and sales trailed forecasts because demand for its customers' products fell.
Although the box office continues to be in a slump for the 16th weekend in a row, as overall ticket sales trail those of last year, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (Fox), the comedic action-romance starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, right, opened surprisingly strong this weekend with just over $51 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates, earning the No. 1 spot by a wide margin.
Its sales trail some way behind market leader Healthy, which is produced by River Publishing and sells over 212,000, as well as Emap's Top Sante Health and the National Magazine Company's Beauty and Zest, both of which sell over 100,000 copies a month.
Today the company is the second-largest casino company in the world by sales, trailing recently private Harrah's Entertainment.
"Now that the mainframe picture has changed significantly, and as those sales trail off, it really doesn't have much to offer on the hardware front".
