
Nissan quarterly profit dives on China sales slump
Nissan Motor Co. reported a 35 percent plunge in October-December profit to 54.1 billion yen ($579 million) as global sales languished, especially in ...

Stocks edge higher after trade deficit report
Stocks edged higher on Wall Street Friday after the government reported that the U.S. trade deficit narrowed sharply in December. The major indexes ...

China's January auto sales surge 46 percent
China's auto sales rose 46 percent in January to a monthly record on strong demand for SUVs in pre-Lunar New Year shopping, an industry group reported ...
Finnair turns a profit in Q4 after cost cuts
Higher revenues and lower operational costs have helped Finnair PLC return to profit in the last three months of 2012. The Finnish airline says Friday ...
Investor sues Apple, wants more cash
With its annual meeting looming and its stock on the decline, Apple is facing a rebellion from an influential investor who wants the company to stop ...

LinkedIn's 4Q gets rave reviews from investors
Online professional-networking service LinkedIn's fourth-quarter performance added another line to its sterling resume as a public company.
McClatchy posts 4Q loss on debt refinancing charge
The McClatchy Co., publisher of 30 daily newspapers including The Sacramento Bee and The Miami Herald, said Thursday that it posted a loss in the ...

Stocks retreat as Europe, earnings weigh
Stocks slumped on Wall Street Thursday, and the rally which has pushed indexes close to record levels stalled. The Dow Jones industrial average fell ...

Retailers report strong January sales
Sometimes, the devil is in the deals. Americans shopped the winter clearance racks in January, resulting in strong sales during the month for ...

Humbled Toyota rolls out new Tundra pickup
Back in 2007, Toyota trumpeted its bulked-up Tundra as a game-changer that would cut into Detroit's dominance of the U.S. pickup truck market.

Sprint posts big 4Q loss, revenue rises
Sprint Nextel Corp., the country's third largest wireless carrier, on Thursday said it lost $1.3 billion in its fourth quarter, about the same as a ...

Daimler sees Q4 profit rise on one-off gain
A one-off gain from the sale of an investment helped boost German automaker Daimler AG's net profit in the fourth quarter of 2012, offsetting the ...
Alcatel-Lucent boss leaving as losses mount
Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen is leaving the loss-making French-U.S. telecommunications gear maker after a failed four-year bid to turn the ...
Ahead of the Bell: Bar set high for LinkedIn's 4Q
LinkedIn 's knack of surprising Wall Street, an unbroken streak that winds back through every quarter since May 2011 after the company first went ...

Sony trims quarterly loss to $115 million
Sony Corp. is still struggling but managed to reduce its red ink for the latest quarter as the Japanese electronics and entertainment company aims for ...
Statoil profits halved in Q4 on lower oil prices
Norwegian oil company Statoil ASA says its fourth-quarter profits plunged 50 percent as revenue dropped because of lower oil and gas prices.
Credit Suisse returns to profit in Q4
Credit Suisse, Switzerland's second-biggest bank, returned to profit in the fourth quarter of 2012 but said it was planning to cut costs more than ...
Sanofi earns slump in 4th quarter
French drug maker Sanofi says its net profit was more than halved in the fourth quarter from a year earlier as mounting restructuring costs and patent ...

Visa's fiscal 1Q net income jumps 25 pct
Shoppers hit stores for the holidays in the final months of 2012 and it seems many of them were armed with credit and debit cards using the Visa ...

News Corp. cuts outlook, shares fall
Media conglomerate News Corp. cut its forecast for annual earnings Wednesday, saying underperformance at several businesses including its Fox ...

Time Warner 4Q earnings up, raises dividend 11 pct
Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday that net income grew 51 percent in the last three months of 2012 even as revenue was largely unchanged. Rising fees ...

CVS Caremark's 4Q profit rises 6 percent
CVS Caremark's fourth-quarter earnings climbed 6 percent, as revenue from its established drugstores grew and new customers helped its pharmacy ...

Ralph Lauren's 3Q profit up 27 pct
Ralph Lauren Corp. posted a 27 percent increase in its fiscal third-quarter profit as the designer clothing company enjoyed continued momentum in ...

Stocks little changed as earnings fail to inspire
Stocks were flat on Wall Street as the latest round of earnings reports failed to give investors an impetus to push the market's recent rally forward.