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Moffat Viewed as "Classic IBM Executive"

in News on October 19, 2009 at 8:11 am PT

Within International Business Machines Corp., Robert W. Moffat Jr. was known as a “quintessential IBMer,” rising to Big Blue’s top echelons by relentlessly cutting costs to boost profits. To the rest of the world, he is becoming known as one of the highest-ranking executives to be embroiled in an insider-trading scandal since Wall Street was rocked by such schemes in the 1980s.

Thank God for IBM

in News on January 20, 2009 at 1:30 pm PT

Finally, some good news… After market close Tuesday, IBM reported a fiscal fourth-quarter profit that rose 12 percent year over year and said it expects earnings for 2009 to surpass current estimates. IBM believes it will earn at least $9.20 a share in 2009, while analysts have been betting on $8.75.