{"id":8013,"date":"2009-05-14T16:05:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T23:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8013"},"modified":"2009-05-14T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T23:05:09","slug":"billabong-profit-drop-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8013","title":{"rendered":"Billabong Profit Drop Rumors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/billabong-log.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/billabong-log.jpg','popup','width=202,height=120,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/billabong-log-tm.jpg\" height=\"118\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Billabong-Log\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> stock went into a trading halt soon after the market opened yesterday, according to Australia&#8217;s the Age and now analysts are stuck trying to figure out exactly what that means.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You&#8217;ve got two choices,&#8221; one analyst said. &#8220;A capital raising for who-knows-why, or a profit downgrade. Or if you want to be really, really wild, how about an upgrade. There&#8217;s enough anecdotal evidence to say it&#8217;s not on the upside.&#8221; . . .A second analyst agreed, saying: &#8220;Most of the market&#8217;s expecting their profit to come in below their guidance, but not dramatically so.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re not even going to guess on this one. We&#8217;ll all know soon enough. But it doesn&#8217;t sound good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/business.theage.com.au\/business\/billabong-surfs-rumour-wave-before-update-20090514-b4rh.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Age<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billabong&#8217;s stock went into a trading halt soon after the market opened yesterday, according to Australia&#8217;s the Age and now analysts are stuck trying to figure out exactly what that means. You&#8217;ve got two choices,&#8221; one analyst said. &#8220;A capital raising for who-knows-why, or a profit downgrade. Or if you want to be really, really [&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":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013"}],"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=8013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8014,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013\/revisions\/8014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}