CNBC.com's News Now: RIM Profit Beats Estimates; Outlook Outstrips Forecasts

Click here to view today's newsletter on your mobile device. Thursday, Apr. 02, 2009     DOW 7978.08 216.48 +2.79%   NASDAQ 1602.63 51.03 +3.29%   S&P 834.38 23.30 +2.87%       NEWS MARKETS EARNINGS INVESTING VIDEO CNBC TV CNBC PLUS     WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW RIM Profit Beats Estimates; Outlook Outstrips Forecasts Research in Motion reported improved earnings that topped estimates and gave an outlook that was well ahead of analysts' forecasts. Its shares skyrocketed about 20 percent... »read more Stocks Hold Rally as Banks, Tech Surge Stocks spiked higher Thursday as investors began to believe in a rally that sent the Dow industrials to their highest four-day winning streak in more than 75 years... »read more Springtime for Stocks: Rally May Finally Beat Down Bear The bear may finally be beaten. As investors digested this week's flurry of good news—or at least better-than-bad news—talk grew that the long slog through the debilitating bear market could be over... »read more TODAY'S TOP 5 VIDEOS 1. Mark-to-Market: Relaxing the Rules   FASB votes to change the mark-to-market from what it has been known for the last year and a half. Discussing the implications, with Harvey Pitt, former SEC chairman and Robert Albertson, Sandler O'Neill. 2. Obama at the G20  President Barack Obama discusses the G20 meetings. 3. Lewis Banks on America  Bank of America president, chairman/CEO Kenneth Lewis says the economy is showing mixed signals right now. 4. Immelt & Otellini: GE, Intel & Healthcare   General Electric and Intel form an alliance to market and develop home healthcare technologies. Insight on the deal, with with Jeffrey Immelt, GE CEO and Paul Otellini, Intel CEO 5. Stop Trading, Listen to Cramer!  Mad Money host Jim Cramer shares his stock picks with CNBC's Erin Burnett.       TODAY'S TOP BLOG   RIM Gets Ready to Rumble, Readies Blockbuster Blackberry On a day that Research in Motion prepares to release what could be promising earnings, I have also been able to confirm that the company is prepping a new hybrid Blackberry that will feature both a full QWERTY keypad and a touch screen. Top industry sources tell me the new Blackberry, with no official name, will be exclusively available on Verizon when it comes to the US, and should be available, I'm told, "in the next few months." »See All CNBC.com Blogs     FIRST IN BUSINESS WORLDWIDE     (c)2009 CNBC Inc. All Rights Reserved 900 Sylvan Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632

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