{"id":29703,"date":"2012-08-02T03:56:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T03:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=29703"},"modified":"2012-08-02T03:56:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T03:56:50","slug":"what-to-watch-august-1-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/08\/02\/what-to-watch-august-1-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Watch: August 1, 2012"},"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=v4bc046c7ba5f3f6cb5b1eb4d86d2e4bc2c379065&#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=v4bc046c7ba5f3f6cb5b1eb4d86d2e4bc2c379065&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>From Fnno.com, this is the Financial News Network, your source for the latest business news. Here&#8217;s a few things to watch for in the financial world today August 1.Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA) beat analyst estimates on its second quarter results. The media conglomerate posted a 32% increase in profit, with an EPS of $0.50 on revenue of $15.2 billion. The positive results were due to a boost in subscriber growth and a decrease in video customer losses.Harley Davidson (NYSE:HOG) also showed signs of continuing growth in the second quarter. The motorcycle maker posted an EPS of $1.07 on revenue of $1.73 billion, a 29.7% increase from a year ago. Analysts were expecting earnings to come in at $1.05 a share. Increased sales in Latin America led to the positive results but the company says it sees a lower amount of shipments in the third quarter.Finally, another sign the video game industry is still in a downward trend. Take Two Interactive (NASDAQ:TTWO) reported a net loss of $110.8 million in the second quarter. And, excluding some items, the loss in earnings came out to $1.16 per share, almost double the analyst estimate of $0.66. The biggest factor to the negative results was the company&#8217;s sales, which fell 32% from a year ago. Those were a few things to watch out for here on the Financial News Network. For more coverage and analysis of the business world follow us on twitter @FNNOnline or check out our website at fnno.com. I&#8217;m Chuck Pierce.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/08\/01\/1_vsnbx2e9_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/08\/01\/1_vsnbx2e9_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fnno.com, this is the Financial News Network, your source for the latest business news. Here&#8217;s a few things to watch for in the financial world today August 1.Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA) beat analyst estimates on its second quarter results. The media conglomerate posted a 32% increase in profit, with an EPS of $0.50 on revenue &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/08\/02\/what-to-watch-august-1-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What to Watch: August 1, 2012&#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-29703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29703","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=29703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}