WELCOME BACK, WINTER: Duke Energy's first-quarter results got a lift from a healthy dose of winter weather and higher retail electric rates.
CLEARING THE HURDLE: LinkedIn Corp. delivered first-quarter results that topped analyst projections.
NEW YORK (AP) — Total U.S.
GM EARNINGS: General Motors Co. said Thursday that its first-quarter profit fell 14 percent to $865 million, or 58 cents per share.
LOWER PROFIT: Visa's net income fell nearly 2 percent in the January-March quarter from the same period last year, when the payments processing
NEW YORK (AP) — Marriott International Inc.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Casino operator Caesars Entertainment Corp.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — CBS Corp.
Frontier Airlines plans to start charging up to $100 for a carry-on bag and $2 for coffee or soda, although its announcement on Wednesday did say t
NEW YORK (AP) — Earnings at Time Warner Inc.
NEW YORK (AP) — Viacom Inc.
BAD NEWS: First-quarter sales and net income for Merck & Co.
THE RESULTS: CVS Caremark Corp. said Monday that its first-quarter net income jumped 23 percent.
NEW YORK (AP) — Eastman Kodak plans to emerge from bankruptcy protection by the end of September after shedding most of the businesses that turned
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Co.'s U.S. sales rose 11 percent in April on continuing demand for pickups as well as small cars.
NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Inc.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — US Steel said Tuesday that it lost $73 million in the first quarter because of tough competition and rising prices, and its
THE RESULTS: Drugmaker Pfizer's results for the first quarter missed analysts' expectations, as generic competition cut sales by 9 percent to $13.5
NEW YORK (AP) — Small business owners are getting more optimistic about their companies, according to two surveys released Tuesday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Inc. is selling $17 billion in bonds on Tuesday, according to a published report.
NEW YORK (AP) — American Express Co. is increasing its quarterly dividend by 15 percent.
IBM says its board has raised its regular quarterly dividend by 12 percent to 95 cents and approved a plan to repurchase up to $5 billion of its st
WASHINGTON (AP) — THE RESULTS: Express Scripts said its first-quarter earnings jumped 39 percent as the company continued to book millions of new p
TECH'S TURN: Technology companies led the Standard & Poor's 500 index to an all-time closing high Monday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Alibaba Group, China's largest e-commerce company, has agreed to buy an 18 percent stake in Sina Corp.'s Weibo, the microblogging p
RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — Chevron has resumed operations in a unit at its Bay Area refinery that was shut down after a massive fire last year.
DETROIT (AP) — Nissan Motor Co. is recalling 123,308 Altima sedans because their spare tires may be over- or underinflated.












