Google slips ahead of fourth quarter earnings (GOOG)

Google is down 0.54% at $853.78 a share ahead of its fourth quarter earnings announcement on Thursday afternoon.
Here are Wall Street's expectations, according to analyst estimates compiled by Yahoo Finance:
Revenue: $25.2 billion, up 18% year-on-year.
EPS (adjusted): $9.67
Besides the numbers, analysts will also be looking for more evidence of Google's ambition to become a hardware company. Its first-ever phone, the Google Pixel, launched to positive reviews, but has struggled to