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Margin Expansion Year to Year in Fourth Quarter; Return to Full-Year Revenue Growth

Consumer appliances (+15.2%), men's clothing (+12.7%) and jewelry (5.2%) are slated to be some of the biggest holiday retail winners.

With retailers gearing up for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, IBM's 2018 Holiday Retail Forecast indicates this shopping season could be a win in many segments, with a 4.83% year-over-year growth seen across the industry this year.  

The IBM board of directors today declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $1.57 per common share, payable December 10, 2018 to stockholders of record November 9, 2018.

With the payment of the December 10 dividend, IBM will have paid consecutive quarterly dividends every year since 1916.

The IBM board of directors today declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $1.50 per common share, payable December 9, 2017 to stockholders of record November 10, 2017. With the payment of the December 9 dividend, IBM will have paid consecutive quarterly dividends every year since 1916.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications on the IBM Cloud will enable customers to quickly build, deliver and deploy business-critical workloads in SAP NetWeaver® and SAP HANA® in the cloud.

Bank of Montreal (BMO), CaixaBank, Commerzbank and Erste Group have joined an initiative launched by UBS and IBM (NYSE: IBM) in 2016 to build a new global trade platform based on blockchain technology.