Friday, July 20, 2007

U.S. Stock-Index Futures Retreat; Google, Caterpillar Fall on Earnings

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock-index futures retreated
after Google Inc. and Caterpillar Inc. reported profit below
analysts' estimates.

Google, the world's most-popular Internet-search engine,
tumbled after it said costs rose due to hiring and increased
research spending. Caterpillar, the biggest maker of earth-
moving equipment, declined on a ``weakness'' in North American
machine sales.


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