{"id":2897,"date":"2008-12-03T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2008-12-03T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T04:00:11","slug":"billabong-blames-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2897","title":{"rendered":"Billabong Blames U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Billabong<\/strong> is letting investors know that for the second straight year their first-half earnings-per-share are going to fall according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601081&amp;sid=aJBVx0RZYEOo&amp;refer=australia\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Slowing demand in the U.S. &#8220;has accelerated throughout November,&#8221; Gold Coast-based Billabong said in a statement today. The company cut its forecast for annual EPS growth between 6 percent and 10 percent in the year ending June, down from an October prediction for a rise of as much as 16 percent. . . . The reduced annual EPS forecast comes less than six weeks after Billabong raised earnings expectations citing a slump in the Australian dollar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears the U.S. economy is causing more problems than a slumping Australian dollar can make up for.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601081&amp;sid=aJBVx0RZYEOo&amp;refer=australia\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billabong is letting investors know that for the second straight year their first-half earnings-per-share are going to fall according to a story on Bloomberg.com. Slowing demand in the U.S. &#8220;has accelerated throughout November,&#8221; Gold Coast-based Billabong said in a statement today. The company cut its forecast for annual EPS growth between 6 percent and 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,4,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}