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Services in spotlight after Apple stock market value hits $1.4 trillion

When Apple Inc posts quarterly results on Tuesday, investors will be looking for fresh evidence the iPhone maker should be treated as a producer of high-margin, subscription services after its stock market value touched $1.4 trillion and its earnings multiple trades at decade highs.

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SAP Cloud Forecast Wobbles as Co-CEOs Plan Era After McDermott

(Bloomberg) — Want the lowdown on European markets? In your inbox before the open, every day. Sign up here.SAP SE raised its outlook for adjusted operating profit but cloud revenue forecasts wavered, as the software giant’s new chief executive officers’ plot how to compete with U.S. rivals.Europe’s biggest tech company by market value has spent the past few years concentrating on growing its cloud business.However SAP’s fourth-quarter results were “mixed,” analysts at MainFirst said, adding that while licenses and operating margins were ahead of predictions, cloud revenues came in below expectations.The company’s shares fell as much as 2.7% in early …read more […]

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The Airbus-Boeing Duopoly Looks Extremely Unbalanced

(Bloomberg Opinion) — Whenever it’s seemed like Airbus SE might steal a march on Boeing Co., something has come along to throw a spanner in the works. A decade ago Airbus was consistently delivering more planes than its arch-rival but its competitiveness was eroded by the strong euro and the nightmare of building the ill-fated A380 superjumbo.Until the two recent fatal crashes involving the Boeing 737 Max, it seemed like a similar story. While both companies had brimming order books, Boeing’s cash flow was going through the roof and Airbus was bedeviled by production difficulties on new commercial aircraft and …read more […]