Financial News  Q3 doubts torpedo Yahoo! shares  CFO signals
advertising slowdown  A little excitement in the US markets
today, what with a military coup in Thailand and Yahoo! sharing
its concern over advertising revenues in Q3.  Sue Decker,
Yahoo!s chief financial officer (CFO), today noted a slowdown in
the growth (our emphasis) of auto and financial advertising,
Reuters reports. Upshot: Q3 revenues will be at the bottom of
the $1.115bn - $1.225bn range indicated by the company in its
July earnings statement  Speaking at a Goldman Sachs conference,
Decker said the advertising slowdown was a "new trend. It's been
two to three weeks and we don't know yet if it's an indicator of
a broader slowdown."  So it's "watch and wait" for Yahoo!, but
not for equities traders, who sent its shares plummeting 13 per
cent. Decker's musings had a knock-on effect on other internet
majors, with Google, Amazon and eBay shares all falling today. ®
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