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Big ‘oops’ by Google drives down stock price

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Google investors got a nasty surprise Thursday morning when the company inadvertently posted earnings ahead of schedule that were lower than expected, sending its stock down by 8 percent, the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal reported. The SEC filing included a line that said, “PENDING LARRY QUOTE,” a sure sign that it wasn’t intended for release.  Google later blamed the early earnings release on the company that prints its financial documents, R.R. Donnelly. Click here to read some of what Twitter users have posted, guessing at what the quote would have said.