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Viacom Inc. (Paramount movie studio’s owner, which also owns many other cable channels) revealed that its net income had increased by 13% in the last quarter as revenue dropped higher than the expectations of Wall Street due to the drop in TV commercial revenue and lack of a powerful theatrical release.

For the July-September quarter, the net income was $650 million ($1.26 per share) as against $576 million ($1 per share), a year before. After setting off one-time adjustments, earnings stood at $1.21 a share.

The analysts were anticipating altered earnings of $1.17 a share, and it was a pleasant 13% boost. Revenue in the financial 4^th quarter dropped by 17% from $4.05 billion to $3.36 billion, less than what analysts had expected ($3.41 billion). Viacom decreased the expenditures by 26% from $3.12 billion to $2.31 billion.

The revenues at the cable television network business Viacom, which includes Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, BET, and MTV, were majorly unaltered at $2.29 billion, while the operating profit dropped by 3% to $933 million.

The environment for advertising has slowed down for many of the key media companies, composited in the quarter by London Olympics, which visualized audiences and advertising move to NBC and its sibling cable networks. Viacom experiences extra challenges of the current audience weakness as its key television networks.

The media company told that the hikes in the fees by the satellite and cable companies to take its channels were counteracted by advertising revenue declines. Advertisement revenues dropped 6% in the United States and 7% globally. Viacom told that a ten-day shutdown of its channels on DirecTV due to a fee disagreement cancelled the advantages of the BET Awards approaching the July-September quarter. It dropped in the last quarter of 2011.

During the analysts’ conference, Philippe Dauman (CEO) told that the Nickelodeon ratings were becoming stable as the kids’ network aired fresh episodes of ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ and a ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ revamp. He stated that the new episodes of the original programs were assisting other networks also.

Dauman restated complaints that the present measurement methods do not completely capture the audiences of Viacom, especially online, but told the company won’t take programming decisions depending on old-fashioned measures.

Viacom stated that the advertisement revenues were exhibiting indications of improvement in the present quarter, though it probably won’t be sufficient to show advancements compared to previous year.

On Thursday i.e. November 15^th 2012, Asian market stocks dropped noticeably as shareholders responded to the probability of extensive discussions over the impending United States fiscal cliff by detaching all the risky resources, but equities of Japan clearly challenged the new trend since a well-defined drop in the Japanese Yen boosted market shares of the exporters.

The market shares of Europe were noticed dropping for a 2^nd straight day, struck by the recent anxieties of U.S., and its own stubborn debt disaster, with statistics scheduled in the later part of the day more likely to suggest the drop of European region back to its 2^nd downturn since 2009 during the 3^rd quarter.

The back-off from risk also reflected on commodities, even though oil detained its improvements after starting the last session, owing to increasing stresses in the Middle Eastern parts after Israel government introduced an offensive as opposed to militants belonging to Palestine in Gaza. A seller at the well-known Australian CMC Markets, Ben Taylor said that markets are clearly revealing worse case circumstances at present with shareholders running away in groups, where the prominent market share index dropped to a direct 2 month low.

Stresses that are escalating in almost all parts of the Middle Eastern region added to the fright trading. Asia Pacific’s largest market index, MSCI market shares external to Japan dropped by nearly 1-percent. It has been said that among the losers, market shares of Hong Kong and South Korea are prominent. Emphasizing the major issues of the European region, anti-austerity rallies across the parts of the Southern Europe turned violent on November 14^th 2012, while statistics scheduled to be disclosed at 1000 GMT was more likely to display the output of the bloc shrank by almost 0.2-percent during the 3^rd quarter.

Challenging the darkness, Nikkei of Tokyo increased by nearly 1.9-percent as the enhancement provided to exporters, including Honda Motors Corporation, Toyota Motors Corp, and Canon Inc overshadowed global concerns. As opposed to the American dollar, the Japanese Yen had dropped considerably on November 15^th after Yoshihiko Noda, the Prime Minister of Japan, suggested that he would set up a snap voting during the coming month that the opponent LDP (Liberal Democratic Party), which supports additional financial policy lessening by the Fed, is anticipated to win.

The leading equity strategist working at BNP Paribas, Shun Maruyama recently said that everybody in the nation is hoping LDP’s Shinzo Abe to become the next PM (Prime Minister) of Japan, as he is expected to compel the Bank of Japan to perform brave fiscal easing by placing a two to three percent inflation goal.

Recently, there has been a considerable rise in the United States stock market futures, which is mainly catalyzed by the Janet Yellen’s, Vice Chairman of Federal Reserve, support to a significant revision in the communication policy of Central Government. The recent clear advancement in the American stock market has also been supported by the upbeat outcomes from Cisco, which has greatly cheered shareholders in this part of the world.

Wall Street provided only muted response to the economic growth data of the nation, which had the local administration registering United States retail sales dropped by nearly 0.3-percent during 2012 October from the previous month, and distinctly, that cost paid by manufacturers fell by nearly 0.2-percent during the last month.

A well-known equity strategist working at Miller Tabak, Peter Boockvar recently opinioned that the Northeaster storm had a clear influence on the overall product sales during 2012 October. Hence, it is really difficult to determine what would have been the normal status of the country business world otherwise. Just before the storm, sales in necessities increased substantially in the Northeastern region, but after the storm, sales of each and every category of the market buckled severely.

Boockvar added that this is the main reason why the Standard & Poor’s didn’t react greatly to the wide-ranging weakness in the overall sales recently. Prospects for the highly regarded Dow Jones Industrial Average increased sharply by 27-points, or by 0.2-percent to around 12,745, whereas those for the S&P’s 500 market stock index augmented by nearly 4.10-points, or by 0.3-percent to almost 1,375.00. It has also been observed that the NASDAQ stock market futures rose by almost 11.5-points or by 0.5-percent to nearly 2,572.

In a recent speech, the Vice Chairman of the Fed suggested bonding the zero interest rate policy of the Fed to a double inflation, and employment objective. Yellen’s support to the new vital change to the communication policy is actually very crucial, since she is one among the most powerful members of the Central Bank, and also regarded as the topmost contender to substitute Ben Bernanke, the present Chairman of the Federal Central, if he resigns in 2014.

The well-known Saxo Bank’s Chief Investment Officer, Steen Jakobsen said that the Fed has lately informed that it hopes to maintain interest rates precisely low through the mid-half of 2015 fiscal year, but the latest constraint suggested by Janet Yellen would certainly substitute the low interest rate for longer.

With the help of a considerable surge in the total number of tradable markets shares, most recently, the well-known social networking company, Facebook Inc had attained its 2^nd highest gain after going public as one among of the potential investors in the global market.

The market stocks of the company increased greatly by nearly 13 percent to around $22.36 at the end of the recent market session in the New York City. As per the latest regulatory filing, constraints on nearly 804-million market shares that are held by ex-employees of the firm and those who traded at the first public offering increased considerably, nearly doubling-up the totality publicly available.

The operator of the biggest social networking service in the world, Facebook had lost nearly half of its overall value recently as the total number of the market shares increased and shareholders fussed regarding the firm’s capability to produce advertisement profits on the present-day mobile devices.

A prominent market analyst working at Pivotal Research Group, Brian Wieser told that with its latest earnings report, the company has been quite successful to lessen the concerns, and thus greatly supported to increase the market shares price that are released for normal trading in the present market. Wieser added that there were many institutional shareholders just waiting to conquer this practical hump.

During a recent interview, Wieser informed that as long as profits were excellent, and that there is greater than expected probability of encouraging performance in the coming days, anybody shorting the company’s market stock will certainly be at greater risk. It has been said that the sales bars are actually introduced in order to avoid the firm’s shares from deluging the present market instantly after the first public offering. Limitations have been considerably increased on smaller quantities of the market shares during 2012 August, and October.

A leading market expert working at the well-known Topeka Capital Markets, Victor Anthony said that the present-day trading volume of the company, which is almost 4-times its average volume, is actually being impelled partially by short traders getting around the stock. Anthony added that most of the shareholders strongly believe that worst is well behind Facebook Inc, and this is the instant to go extended on the market stock.

Based in Menlo Park located California, Facebook is more likely to ease up nearly 156-million market shares during December 2012 for shareholders, with the exception of Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s CEO (Chief Executive Officer), who traded in the IPO.