Shell Q4 profits up as output rises
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc  posted a 2.6 percent rise in underlying quarterly profits on Thursday, beating analysts' forecasts, thanks to higher production and strong oil prices.
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US software company Oracle reports a jump in profits after acquisitions boosted its sales of business products.
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BP Plc, the world's second largest oil  company, reported bumper third-quarter profits on Tuesday on  the back of high oil prices and stronger than expected refining  and chemicals margins.
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Media conglomerate Time Warner Inc.  said on Wednesday that fourth-quarter profit rose more than 30 percent, boosted by asset sales, more digital cable and phone customers, and a rise in AOL advertising sales.
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Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L)  beat forecasts on Thursday to report a 36 percent rise in  second-quarter current cost of supply net profit, which strips  out changes in inventory values, to $6.3 billion, thanks to  high oil prices.
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Oil and gas producer Murphy Oil Corp. on Tuesday said its third-quarter profits soared on increasing oil prices, beating industry estimates.
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Oracle Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 23 percent as the business software maker harvested more sales from the crop of customers picked up in a $25 billion shopping spree that has buried much of its competition.
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Anglo-Dutch oil group Royal Dutch Shell has posted record annual net profit Thursday of 25.44 billion dollars (19.54 billion euros), but output faltered owing to production problems in Nigeria.
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Occidental Petroleum Corp. OXY.N,  among the top U.S. oil and gas producers, on Thursday said  quarterly profit shot up 70 percent, spurred by the dramatic  rise in oil and gas prices in recent months.
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Fourth-quarter profit more than tripled as more companies listed on the exchange, the company said.
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Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) posted a  record European company profit of $27.6 billion for 2007, but  lower production and indications of reserves suggest earnings  growth will rely on oil price rises for some years to come.
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Chevron Corp , the second-largest U.S. oil company, on Friday said its fourth-quarter earnings rose as record prices for oil outweighed relatively weak refining profits.
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The French oil giant said fourth-quarter profit rose 62% to 3.6 billion euros ($5.23 billion) as oil prices rose and and new projects in Angola and Qatar raised production.
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The company said its profit rose 56 percent to $1.45 billion in the fourth quarter as oil prices surged.
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The No. 2 U.S. oil company reported a rise in quarterly profit pumped up by record oil and gas prices and gains on asset sales.
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Business software maker Oracle  Corp.  said on Thursday its fourth-quarter profit would  beat company forecasts as new software license revenue rose a  better-than-expected 32 percent.
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Oracle Corp  said on Wednesday that quarterly profit rose 35 percent as new software sales soared, beating expectations at a time when investors are nervous that IT spending is slowing, and its shares climbed 4 percent.