Home Depot said it expects earnings per share from continuing operations to drop 24 percent for the year. It had said in May that it felt "more comfortable" that it would meet the low end of its full-year guidance for a drop of 19 percent to 24 ...

The Minneapolis-based discounter said its earnings slipped to $634 million, or 82 cents per share, for the three-month period ended Aug. 2. That compares with a profit of $686 million, or 81 cents per share, a year earlier.

Home Depot Inc. reported a 24 percent decline in its second-quarter earnings but topped Wall Street’s expectations. The nation’s largest home improvement retailer reiterated its forecast for the year.

A survey of analysts by Thomson Reuters projected earnings per share of 61 cents on revenue of $20.58 billion. “We continue to see pressure on our market and the consumer, generally,” said Frank Blake, chairman and CEO, in a statement.

The Jet Aviation deal, which has been approved by both companies' boards, will be immediately accretive to General Dynamics' earnings and is expected to close by year-end, General Dynamics said.

The Mooresville, N.C. retailer said Monday that earnings fell to $938 million, or 64 cents per share, in the three months ended Aug. 1. That compares with a profit of $1.02 billion, or 67 cents per share, in the year-ago period.

The prime auto lease business is no longer a strategic fit for us, partly because the returns are not acceptable,” the company wrote in its second-quarter earnings filing made with regulators July 16.

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He also detailed a plan to levy payroll taxes on earnings above $250,000 at a rate between 2% and 4%, though that increase wouldn't occur for at least a decade.

With an absence of any significant economic news to guide it this holiday-shortened week, Wall Street will take its bearing from a flood of fourth-quarter earnings reports as ...

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The Home Depot Inc. reported a 26.8 percent drop in third-quarter profits and revised its financial outlook Tuesday, saying a decline in earnings would be larger than expected as ...

Mattel Inc. posted a 15 percent gain in fourth-quarter profit, even though it entered the crucial holiday season in the shadow of negative publicity over its recalls of millions of ...

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Motorola Inc. said Tuesday its third-quarter earnings more than tripled on record sales as it continued to pick up market share in the global cell-phone market.

Shares of Google Inc. sank nearly 10 percent Wednesday, wiping out billions of dollars in shareholder wealth, after the Web search firm's earnings report disappointed Wall Street ...

Time Warner Inc.'s new CEO Jeff Bewkes says company will divide AOL's online access and advertising businesses and possibly spinning off the rest of the company's cable division.

Microsoft Corp. said Thursday its fiscal second-quarter profit topped analysts’ expectations and climbed 79 percent, buoyed by rising sales of Windows-based personal computers.

Motorola Inc. nearly tripled its fourth-quarter earnings of a year ago, beating Wall Street’s estimates Tuesday with a $489 million profit and an unexpected increase in sales to ...