P&G and Colgate post double-digit earnings increases
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Household and personal care products leaders Procter & Gamble Co  and smaller rival Colgate-Palmolive Co  both posted double-digit quarterly profit increases on Tuesday, helped by cost cuts, the weaker dollar and sales of new items.
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Hard drive maker Seagate Technology said Thursday its fiscal second-quarter earnings jumped by 188 percent as shipments rose 20 percent year over year.
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Web search provider Google Inc., posting its first financial results as a public company, yesterday said its third-quarter earnings and revenues both more than doubled from a year ago on the strength of an online advertising boom that continues to gather steam.
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Procter &amp; Gamble Co. (PG) on Wednesday said quarterly profit rose 14 percent on strong sales in all regions, but shares fell because of industry issues and margin concerns.
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Household and personal care products  makers Procter & Gamble Co  and Colgate-Palmolive Co   both reported higher quarterly profit on Thursday,  boosted by sales in emerging markets as the U.S. economy  slowed.
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Excluding the one-time items, earnings per share more than doubled at the publisher as revenue rose nearly 20 percent.
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US meat processor Smithfield Foods has said its first-quarter earnings more than doubled from the year-ago period, boosted by higher sales.
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General Mills Inc. on Tuesday led shares of rival food companies higher after it reported second-quarter earnings grew 19 percent as strong sales helped offset higher commodity prices.
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Regional brokerage AG Edwards Inc. on Thursday reported fiscal second-quarter earnings rose on the year but still missed Wall Street expectations due to the sluggish pace of equity markets.
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Procter & Gamble Co. PG.N  on  Wednesday posted higher quarterly profit, boosted by sales of  new products and continued gains in developing markets.
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Procter & Gamble Co.  stood by its sales and profit forecasts for the current quarter on Thursday and said it should return to double-digit earnings per share growth by the fiscal year beginning next July.
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Colgate-Palmolive Co  on Tuesday posted higher quarterly profit, helped by strength in emerging markets and improved margins and savings from cost-cutting measures.
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Google&#39;s first quarterly earnings statement since its recent IPO rewarded investors with the news that the company has doubled its profits in the past year.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc.  and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.  on Tuesday posted higher-than-expected quarterly profits, fueled by surprising strength in bond trading and investment banking growth.
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Web search leader Google Inc.  GOOG.O, in its first earnings report as a publicly held  company, on Thursday posted a higher net profit as revenue more  than doubled on strong Web search advertising.
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Symantec Wednesday said fiscal second-quarter earnings more than doubled over the previous year as the company saw growth across all of its business segments.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc  said on Tuesday its fourth-quarter earnings rose 2 percent, trouncing expectations as higher merger advisory fees and surprisingly strong debt trading results helped it sidestep the credit crunch that has hammered the rest of Wall Street.