Earnings highlights: Circuit City, Marriott, Walgreen, Pepsi Bottling, UBS and others

Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks:

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) earnings prospects may suffer if holiday sales are poor.
Circuit City Stores Inc. (NASDAQ: CC) disappointing results were followed by a restructuring announcement.
Conexant Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CNXT) raised its guidance, send shares up sharply.
Constellation Brands Inc. (NYSE: STZ) posted a Q2 loss due in part to restructuring Australian operations.
Con-Way Inc. (NYSE: CNW) reduced Q3 guidance resulted in an analyst downgrade.
Family Dollar Stores Inc. (NYSE: FDO) reported better-than-expected Q4 earnings, sending shares higher.
Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) Q3 earnings prospects led to an analyst's upgrade.
International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) fell on rumors it would miss earnings estimates.
Marriott International Inc. (NYSE: MAR) Q3 profits fell and it warned of challenges through 2009.
Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) fell short of expectations and warned of a production slowdown.
Nabors Industrial Ltd. (NYSE: NBR) warning about earnings led shares near a new low.
Pepsi Bottling Group Inc. (NYSE: PBG) beat Q3 expectations despite struggling with economic woes.
Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG) earnings prospects led to an analyst's downgrade.
UBS (NYSE: UBS) said it expects to return to profitability after four straight quarterly losses.
Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) Q4 earnings fell short of expectations, though sales increased.

Also, Jim Cramer reminds us that earnings still matter. Changing accounting rules may affect the earnings of big banks.

Upcoming quarterly reports include Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA), Safeway Inc. (NYSE: SWY), Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM), Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST), Monsanto Co. (NASDAQ: MON), General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE).

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