Google's Big, Painful Fat Finger

Google shares melted down the other day after the company's filing agent, R.R. Donnelley, prematurely filed Google's unusually weak earnings a little earlier than anticipated. However, the market's knee-jerk reaction was far too extreme, considering that Google's earnings weren't actually all that bad.

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