Wall Street edges from 5-year highs, is the result of

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Shares ground lost on Monday, as investors back from the recent gains, which moved the S & P 500 to a five-year high in anticipation of sluggish growth of corporate earnings lifted.

Shares dipped by financial companies, after a group of U.S. banks agreed figures total $8.5 billion, an investigation of the failed mortgage foreclosures Government to quit. The KBW Bank index, an indicator for the U.S. bank stocks was 0.3 percent.

Other sectors were especially energy and utilities, affected. Energy sector index, the S & P 500 fell 0.8 percent and utilities sector was off 1.1 percent.

Decline of the day came in a session after the S & P 500 ended a five-year-high, reinforced by a budget and strong economic data. The S & P 500 rose 4.6 percent last week, win the best weekly in more than a year.

"It's a little bit of some risk off the table prior to winning season, you will not see what that great" on the result, said Larry Peruzzi, senior equity trader at Cabrera capital markets Inc. in Boston.

The results are expected to be only slightly better than lackluster results in the third quarter and current estimates of the analysts are down sharply, where they were in October. Earnings growth in the fourth quarter is expected to be 2.8 percent, are based on data from Thomson Reuters.

Alcoa Inc. aluminum company begins reporting season with the announcement of its results after market close on Tuesday. Alcoa shares fell to $9.10-1.7 percent.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 50.92 points, or 0.38 percent, to 13,384.29. The standard & poor's 500 index fell 4.58 points, or 0.31 percent, to 1,461.89. The Nasdaq composite index lost 2.84 points or 0.09 percent to 3,098.81.

A review of the case of foreclosures, which stop US regulators demanded ten Mortgage Servicers - including Bank of America, JPMorgan, Citigroup and Wells Fargo-$8.5 billion agreed on Monday figures.

In a separate case Bank announced BofA also about $11.6-billion settlement with finance mortgage company Fannie Mae and a $1.8 billion sale of the collection rights for home loans.

The Bank also appeared in agreements with nation star mortgage holdings and Walter investment management, approximately 306 billion $ of mortgage loans to sell servicing rights.

Bank of America shares lost 0.2 per cent to $12.09, during nation star mortgage holdings jumped 16.8 percent to $38.83.

Citigroup shares rose 0.09 percent to $42.47 and Wells Fargo shares fell 0.5 percent to $34,77.

"Financials probably the wind behind them now come with a lot of regulations... the market has to absorb much of the profits and for the reason there is a retreat from this level", said Warren West, principal at Greentree brokerage services in Philadelphia.

Shares of U.S. Jet maker, which Boeing Co fell 2 percent after a plane of Boeing 787 Dreamliner with no passengers on board the from Boston Logan International Airport on Monday morning caught fire.

Amazon.com shares hit is their highest price ever at $269.22 after Morgan Stanley raised the rating on the stock. Shares rose 3.6 percent to $268.46.

Video-streaming service Netflix Inc shares 3.4 per cent to $99.20 won after it said that there are some past seasons popular shows from time Warner Warner of Bros. television produced will help.

Walt Disney Co shares fell 2.3 percent to $50.97. The company began an internal review of the cost-cutting a few weeks ago can contain the layoffs at his Studio and other units, three people with knowledge of the effort told of Reuters.

Volume was lower than average, such as 4.78 billion shares on the New York Stock Exchange, traded MKT NYSE and NASDAQ. This is far below the average 2012 from 6.42 billion per session.

Declining stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by 1.629, 1.363, while on the NASDAQ Decliners commit 1.438, 1,066 beat.

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Facebook posts loss in first quarter result report

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is focused on mobile, social show and the network development platform.

At 7 am ET updated: Facebook a loss reported Thursday in its first quarterly report as a joint-stock company, but sales rose from 32 per cent on the previous year levels to nearly $1.20 billion.

The results were about analyst expectations but Facebook shares (FB), already under severe pressure, decreased after release the result.

In a conference call with analysts, which was broadcast over the Internet, Facebook executives led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that they have worked hard to create new "social" advertising that the company make money the growing percentage of its users, to come to the service through mobile devices.

"An enormous opportunity for Facebook is mobile," said Zuckerberg.

"Our goal is everyone in the world," he said, adding that most people in the world will soon have a mobile device, so it makes sense to improve the mobile Facebook experience.

COO Sheryl Sandberg said the company has experimented with "sponsored stories" to pay the advertisers like Wal-Mart, to be sure, enable more users to display a particular piece of content in their news feed. She said that makes it possible to avoid the problem Facebook many media companies making money a hard time have the strategy with the small screen of mobile devices.

"Sponsored stories in the news are the cornerstone of our mobile advertising efforts", she said.

Zuckerberg said Facebook's opportunity to a platform for other developers build greater than generally understood.

He sketched out a future in which a new car buyers the car log on computer and immediately have access to contacts, music, restaurant, listings and the recommendation of friends would.

The social networking giant released a net loss of $157 million, or 8 cents per share, primarily by expenses in connection with its May 17 public offering. Without that of Facebook said that it earned 12 cents per share in line with Wall Street expectations.

Excluding share-based compensation and related personnel expenses tax said Facebook $515 million operating profit in the second quarter, compared with $477 million in the second quarter of 2011.

In the press release to Zuckerberg said that the company focused on "Mobile, platform and social show."

BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield said that investors were concerned that Facebook does not offer any evidence for his income going forward.

"Growth clearly slows down based on the user and revenue and without any commentary that people believe it is growing, have a large part of the investor fear," said he.

Facebook shares, which to regain even their $38 price fell $2.50 $26.84 before earnings were released, and by a further 10 percent in after-hours trading. Prior to the release Zynga, which accounts for more than 10 percent of sales of Facebook's Facebook were made due to the poor performance of result of of gaming company shares.

Michael Matousek, a senior trader at U.S. Global Investors Inc., Facebook said beating expectations, "but was the road looking for more."

"The big question which was how, it will earn its users billions or money," he said. "A lot people think you can convert these users not in money."

Facebook said that it had 955 million monthly active users, from 901 million users at the end of March. 84 Percent of its revenue or $992 million, generated from advertising.

The company has approximately 4,000 employees on the 30 June, up from 3,200 at the end of the year, a number that large user base was described as relatively Facebook's small.

Facebook was a massively hyped IPO, which widely as a failure, both due to technical mishaps and because the price of underwriters set could not keep, leaving legions of new, unfortunate investors.

CNBC's Julia Boorstin takes a look at Facebook's reported earnings in the last quarter.

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Facebook's result the chance a second prove

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls show the profit of the company in the first?

Two months after the devastating IPO, Facebook come face to face with shareholders and analysts Thursday when it delivers its first earnings report as a joint-stock company.

It will win a second chance for the social media giant on the investing public and most importantly, to explain how it intends to, his work on the rapid migration of its users be adapted to mobile devices.

Facebook initial public offering in may, one of the largest camps offers to Wall Street ever take, should be a seminal moment in social media, technology and finance.

Instead the event proved a great humiliation for the company are.

A tsunami of stock orders led to embarrassing technical mishaps and "Pop" couldn't share in the expected opening day. In fact, the shares remained sunk above issue price on the first day only with the great support from banks and since almost 24 percent to about $29 from the issue price of $38.

Now angry shareholders are suing Facebook and his lead Institute, Morgan Stanley, claiming that they were being deceived.

Before the IPO, Facebook had questions about his financial prospects, especially in the growing mobile market where advertising inventory is scarce.

And there are concerns that the Facebook's advertising growth is slowing.

In a stroke just before the IPO, GM said marketing executives that she would draw $10 million in advertising from the social network, after assessment of the efforts was "hardly" consumers to achieve.

Facebook, said in a regulatory filing prior to the offer that most of the $3,710 billion, last year turnover made from which was advertising. The company said advertising revenue also decreased in the first quarter of the year compared to the quarter before.

The document reveals more challenging new users ahead for Facebook, including the difficulties of generating revenue from overseas.

About 20 percent of Facebook current user base is in the United States and Canada, and half of the users accessing the site with mobile devices. The mobile business is dominated by Facebook competitors Google and Apple.

In addition bring markets where Facebook at schnellsten-- in Europe and Asia-growing companies less revenue per year. Facebook brings $3 per user in the United States and Canada, but only $1,50 in Europe and in Asia only 50 cents.

A further concern for Facebook came late Wednesday, social delivered the game maker Zynga disappointing results. The gaming company reported a more demanding environment on the Facebook Web platform, where it makes money, by we free games and virtual goods to sell.

On the investor side Facebook's IPO said debacle was a lost opportunity for the industry, derivatives j.j. Kinahan, TD Ameritrade chief strategist.

The offer had never acted to strong interest from young investors under 35, generated, of which many had shares, but are active Facebook users. Many probably Facebook less than stellar market performance off were, he said.

"The securities industry really a chance there lost," Kinahan said.

Facebook could make some ground with a solid result report Thursday afternoon, and Wall Street sees poised to respond to.

Kinahan notes that the July per Spagat--a trading strategy where an investor believes that a stock price will be moved significantly, but is not sure what directions:-is trading at $3 before the report.

"In other words, the market expects we have result, a $3 up or down on [Facebook]," he said.

But Facebook's earnings report is not only about numbers. Investors will want to hear from the Executive Director and founder Mark Zuckerberg on the earnings call with analysts.

Zuckerberg has mostly left daily financial responsibility to the Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman. But Zuckerberg has on the Conference call Thursday, up to speak, said Michael Pachter, analyst at Wedbush securities.

"I think, what really counts is that Zuckerberg has received on this call and say, ' I care ', and I think that he is to go", Pachter said.

"I think Zuckerberg does not answer questions, but he has to the call to be", he added. "When he rises to the call, the stock immediately." He is the CEO, he can not only by mail in. He has to show. "I think people care more than Q & A.."

Gene Munster, Piper Jaffray analyst, offers a preview of the first Facebook's earnings report since IPO, and explains why he is optimistic, what the social network company and has a "buy" evaluation on the stock with a price target of $41.

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