{"id":29020,"date":"2012-04-28T21:50:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T01:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=29020"},"modified":"2012-04-28T21:50:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T01:50:52","slug":"merck-tops-estimates-by-a-penny-reiterates-guidance-despite-forex-rates-mrk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/04\/28\/merck-tops-estimates-by-a-penny-reiterates-guidance-despite-forex-rates-mrk\/","title":{"rendered":"Merck Tops Estimates By A Penny, Reiterates Guidance Despite Forex Rates (MRK)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"542\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v171ae11b6cd79bbad436fb0432b3b9cad2b695aa&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v171ae11b6cd79bbad436fb0432b3b9cad2b695aa&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>4-27-12-Merck (NYSE:MRK) reported Q1 EPS of $0.99, topping estimates by a penny.Revenues in the quarter came in at $11.73 billion, short of estimates of $11.83 billion.Merck says current forex rate may hurt sales by 2%-3%.Merck still sees 2012 EPS $3.75-$3.85, vs. estimates of $3.81.SmarTrend currently has Merck in a Downtrend. Since 2008, SmarTrend subscribers trading Merck using our alerts outperformed the stock by 67%. We are monitoring these developments and will alert subscribers to any change in trend.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/04\/28\/1_t3jmgqwb_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/04\/28\/1_t3jmgqwb_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4-27-12-Merck (NYSE:MRK) reported Q1 EPS of $0.99, topping estimates by a penny.Revenues in the quarter came in at $11.73 billion, short of estimates of $11.83 billion.Merck says current forex rate may hurt sales by 2%-3%.Merck still sees 2012 EPS $3.75-$3.85, vs. estimates of $3.81.SmarTrend currently has Merck in a Downtrend. Since 2008, SmarTrend subscribers trading &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/04\/28\/merck-tops-estimates-by-a-penny-reiterates-guidance-despite-forex-rates-mrk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Merck Tops Estimates By A Penny, Reiterates Guidance Despite Forex Rates (MRK)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}