NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / February 8, 2017 / The markets have benefitted from a better-than-expected earnings season as earnings for S&P 500 companies are forecasted to increase by 4.7 percent year-over-year, nearly 50 percent better than the 3.2 percent growth analysts' forecasted at the end of 2016. Strong corporate earnings outweighed some potential economic concerns to help lift markets higher Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.19 percent to close at 20,090.29, while the S&P 500 Index gained 0.02 percent to close at 2,293.08. The NASDAQ touched an intraday high of 5,689.60, before settling to close at 5,674.22.

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On Tuesday, the Commerce Department reported that the U.S. trade deficit increased 0.4 percent to a $502.25 billion in 2016, a four-year high. The trade deficit as a portion of gross domestic product dropped to 2.7 percent from 2.8 percent in 2015.

"We're on a steep learning curve with the amount of information that is coming out about the new administration and its policies, but if you set aside the political aspects, we're very positive on the health of U.S. companies, with corporate earnings, and with U.S. equities in general," said Peter Andersen, chief investment officer of the Fiduciary Trust Co.

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Twilio's shares declined 2.70 percent to close at $30.96 a share on Tuesday. The stock traded between $30.83 and $32.31 on volume 7.41 million shares traded. The company reported a GAAP loss from operations of $12.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2016, compared with GAAP loss from operations of $8.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2015. Revenues totaled $82.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2016, an increase of 60 percent year-over-year. Analysts' expectations had called for revenues of approximately $74.2 million, according to analysts polled by FactSet. Twilio forecasts revenue to be in the range of $82 million to $84 million and losses of $0.07 to $0.06 per share for the first quarter of fiscal 2017, short of Wall Street's estimates of revenues of $78.3 million and a loss of $0.04 a share.

"Our fourth quarter and full year results demonstrate the power of our platform business model that starts with developers and extends to some of the largest enterprises in the world," said Jeff Lawson, Twilio's Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. "As we look into 2017, we will continue to invest in innovation and growth with the goal of powering the software-based future of communications."

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Real Goods Solar's shares spiked 16.33 percent to close at $2.85 a share on Tuesday. The stock traded between $2.61 and $3.64 on volume of 12.26 million shares traded. The company's preliminary results show revenues to be approximately 5.10 million for the fourth quarter of 2016, compared to revenues of $2.46 million in the third quarter of 2016. On February 6th, the company reported the completion of its previously announced $11.5 million public offering of common stock and warrants.

"As America's original solar company, RGS Energy's vision is to provide clean solar power to residential and small commercial customers across the country," said RGS Energy CEO Dennis Lacey. "This capital gives us additional resources to fulfill this vision and expedite our growth plan to expand our operations within our existing footprint. It also provides us the flexibility to explore new products and states of operations to deliver on our vision. Following this capital raise, we are virtually debt-free and have cash of over $11 million and stockholders' equity of approximately $15 million."

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Twilio Inc. (NYSE: TWLO)

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