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Reports Q1 (Mar) earnings of $2.02 per share, $0.52 better than the Thomson Reuters consensus of $1.50; revenues rose 59.9% year/year to $189.6 mln vs the $180.1 mln consensus. Co issues upside guidance for Q2, sees Q2 revs of $268.1-274.0 mln vs. $240.07 mln Thomson Reuters consensus. Online marketing revenues for the first quarter of 2010 were RMB1.293 billion ($189.5 million), representing a 59.6% increase from the corresponding period in 2009. Baidu had around 221,000 active online marketing customers in the first quarter of 2010, representing a 19.5% increase from the corresponding period in 2009 and a 0.9% decrease from the previous quarter. Revenue per online marketing customer for the first quarter was approximately RMB5,900 ($864), a 34.1% increase from the corresponding period in 2009 and a 3.5% increase from the previous quarter. Traffic acquisition costs (TAC) as a component of cost of revenues were RMB171.3 million ($25.1 million), representing 13.2% of total revenues, as compared to 15.3% in the corresponding period in 2009 and 16.0% in the fourth quarter of 2009. The decrease in TAC as a percentage of total revenues reflects initiatives to drive quality improvements on Baidu Union traffic. Co also announces a 10:1 ADS split.

On Friday JPMorgan Chase (JPM) posted very solid numbers on the earnings front. Jamie Dimon and friends turned in $0.74 EPS rather than the Thomson Reuters estimate of $0.62 EPS. The 2.25% drop took the stock down to $43.68, and that is still very much at the high-end of the 52-week trading range.

Gold imports to India, the world's biggest consumer, are likely to fall by as much as 26%, or by 200 to 250 tonnes, in 2012 as record high prices hit the budgets of consumers, said the head of Thomson Reuters GFMS on Friday. The south Asian country had imported a record 969 tonnes of the yellow metal in 2011 but higher import duties and a sliding rupee this year have helped cut purchases... Read more here- http://commodity-intraday.blogspot.in/2012/08/gold-silver-updates-gold-traded-high-on.html

Barclays, the U.K. banking behemoth, is challenging Barclays To Host Blockchains Hackathon developers to assist refurbish the worldwide derivatives market next month at a hackathon. Disclosed to the media this week, DerivHack will take place at Barclays' Rise accelerator spaces at the same time in New York and London on September 20 and 21, 2018. The ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association), Thomson Reuters, and Deloitte are co-sponsoring the hackathon.