By Scott Moritz
IBM (IBM) sounded a rally cry for tech as the big IT shop blew past its first quarter targets.
Big Blue roundly beat the Street’s adjusted profit expectations by 20 cents with a $1.65 bottom line for the first quarter. Sales of $24.5 billion also soared passed analysts’ estimates, which called for revenue of $23.7 billion in the quarter ended last month.
The news follows Intel’s reported solid results. The Dow Jones index was up 2% and the tech-laden Nasdaq rose nearly 3% Wednesday.
