But investors seem impressed: the firm's shares have handsomely outperformed the retail sector over the past few months (see chart).
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Its shares gained handsomely by the time the market opened but trimmed a few of those gains, trading at $193.51, $2.46 or 1.3% above its closing price on Thursday.
The company says it now expects to report "record" first-quarter earnings to come in about 25% ahead of previous estimates, at about 40 cents per share, comparing quite handsomely to first-quarter 2000, when Dynegy reported earnings per share of 26 cents.
During the technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s, Mr. Paulson took a negative stance on high-flying shares and profited handsomely for himself and his clients.
FbMTV? Facebook is talking with record labels about paying them handsomely to share music videos to the News Feed, according to reports from Billboard and The New York Times.
There you are around the barbecue, the only person not smugly invested in hedge funds—which, everybody else is quick to remind you, not only handsomely beat shares during the bull market, but have now kept out of reach of the bears.
But with an investment bank behind them in Britain, shared appreciation loans succeeded handsomely in England, Scotland and Wales, according to Sam Masucci, who managed global residential property markets for Warburg Dillon Read, an investment banking division of UBS, the large Swiss investment bank.
The transaction could be a protective play by an investor holding a long position in FITB shares, or may be the work of an outright bearish trader cheapening the cost of a directional play that pays off handsomely if shares nosedive by January expiration.
"Lloyds Banking Group is well on the road to recovery, with the CEO being recently rewarded handsomely with a share bonus in the region of £2.5m, yet staff are being made redundant".
