fourth quarter

For the second time in a month, Nokia revises its forecast and tells investors that a slumping economy will hurt sales in the fourth quarter.

Faced with a significant revenue decline across all geographies and businesses, Advanced Micro Devices warns its fourth quarter performance will be lower than expected.

As promised, AMD issued its fourth quarter update Thursday and it wasn’t pretty. In a terse statement, AMD said that sales for the fourth quarter will be 25 percent lower than the third quarter tally of $1.58 billion.

Global server sales fell 5.2 percent in the third quarter, the largest decline since the fourth quarter of 2002.

Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard maintained a very slight market share lead over IBM, but statistically it’s a tie, according to IDC.

Hewlett Packard reported a net profit of $2.11 billion, or 84 cents per share, on revenue of $33.6 billion for its fourth quarter.

(Statement) The results and an outlook for 2009 matched the preliminary figures the company release on Nov. 18.

Spain is likely to slip into recession in the fourth quarter and stay there into 2009, the Bank of Spain governor says.

The world's biggest PC maker, Hewlett-Packard, has revealed better-than-expected net profit in the fourth quarter.

Plus: Nortel earnings sink...Lenovo revenue plunges...Time Warner performance is flat...Pioneer predicts greater loss.

Consumers are buying fewer mobile handsets amid the worst economic crisis in a generation, causing Nokia to reduce expectations.

Intel warns its fourth quarter revenues and gross margins will be less than previously forecast, as the chip giant stumbles as analysts had predicted.