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International Business Machines Corp.’s second-quarter results were marred by a bigger-than-expected drop in revenue in its software business, sparking fears about the transition to selling more software-as-a service products.
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“Mad Money” host Jim Cramer is chomping into Apple’s movement and telling you what move to make.

While the growth potential looks promising, competition for this market is going to be fierce.

Stocks wavered to a modestly higher finish Monday as attention now turns to earnings. Internet, solar and software stocks helped the Nasdaq to a nearly 0.2% gain and another record high. Monday marked its seventh gain in the past eight sessions. The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.1% each. But the small-cap Russell 2000 fell for a second straight day, down 0.5%.

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“Fast Money” traders looked at how to play earnings from big tech companies IBM, Apple and Yahoo, who all report this week.

Over 3 million new subscribers joined the streamer’s service last quarter. Here are the three shows that propelled those huge gains.

You know it’s bad when… With most of California experiencing “extreme to exceptional drought,” and the crisis now in its fourth year, state officials recently unleashed the first cutback to farmers’ water rights since 1977, ordering cities and towns to cut water use by as much as 36%.

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