Baidu profit doubles, but shares slip on forecast
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SHANGHAI/NEW YORK  - Chinese Internet search company Baidu.com Inc  beat forecasts by more than doubling its quarterly profit, but its shares fell 4 percent as its profit guidance fell short of some investors' expectations.
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Chinese shares recover slightly after the recent heavy falls but investors remain cautious as inflation fears persist.
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The world&#39;s biggest mining group, BHP Billiton, says its second-half net profit has more than doubled on strong demand for industrial raw materials and forecast sustained high prices for commodities.
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China's main share index clawed back some of Wednesday's losses despite a weak opening.
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BHP Billiton, the world&#39;s biggest mining company, has doubled its profits in the second half of the year on the back of booming global commodity prices.
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Goldman Sachs reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday.
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Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp.  said on Thursday that fourth-quarter earnings more than doubled as higher prices for silver and gold offset lower production.
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(InfoWorld) - A new report shows Baidu.com increased its share of the search market in China's top cities, while rival Google lost groundÂ despite continued heavy investments in its Chinese operations. Baidu has a 69.5 percent share of the search market in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, up 7.6 percentage points since last year, according to a report (in Chinese) by Peter Lu, managing partner and chief analyst at China IntelliConsulting Corp. (CIC). Meanwhile, Google saw its share of the market shrink, falling 1.1 percentage points to 23 percent. Google's decline was offset somewhat by improved performance among students during the most recent six months. But the company continued to lose its older, more affluent users to Baidu, the report said. These figures are likely to step up the pressure on Google China President Kai-Fu Lee to deliver results for the company. Google China has grown quickly, hiring hundreds of staff and moving into a new building close to the campus of Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University. But these investments have yet to deliver the hoped-for domination of China's search market and raised concerns the company expanded too fast in the country. Those concerns came to a head in April, whenÂ Google admittedÂ that a software tool released by its Chinese operations used a database developed by rival Sohu.comÂ for a competing product -- a stunning admission for a company that is widely respected for the strength of its engineering operations and the caliber of its software developers. The CIC report had some good news for Google. The company's efforts to strengthen its Chinese search capabilities are recognized by users, with 58.5 percent of respondents in a survey saying they'd noticed changes to the search engine. Of those respondents, 65.3 percent said Google's Chinese search engine had improved. Other search engines also saw their share of the search market decline. Yahoo China, which is run by Alibaba.com, saw its share drop 2.9 percentage points to 2.3 percent of the market, while Sohu.com's Sogou search engine fell 1.4 points to 1.8 percent. Â
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Power company Constellation Energy Group Inc.  said on Wednesday fourth-quarter earnings more than doubled, helped by stronger-than-expected results from its merchant unit.
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The investment firm posts a strong profit report, but shares slid.
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Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing&#39;s biggest company, said first-half profit more than doubled on gains from asset sales. The company added users at unprofitable high-speed wireless networks in Europe at a ...
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Internet marketing company DoubleClick Inc.  on Thursday said quarterly profit more than doubled with one-time gains, but its shares fell after hours on a fourth-quarter view that fell short of Wall Street expectations.
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Sun Microsystems Inc , the world's fourth-largest server-computer maker, said on Thursday that quarterly profit doubled amid strong growth in emerging markets.
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High oil and gas prices and bigger profit margins in refining helped the British energy giant BP PLC nearly double its third-quarter earnings, the company said Tuesday.
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Mizuho Financial Group Inc., the world&#39;s second-largest bank by assets, said first-half profit fell 8 percent after it failed to earn sufficient fee income to make up for reduced gains from stock investments.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. , the world's most profitable investment bank, said on Tuesday quarterly earnings nearly doubled on strong growth in almost every business.
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Caterpillar Inc. CAT.N said on  Thursday its quarterly earnings more than doubled on strong  demand for its engines and heavy earth-moving equipment, but  concerns about high costs helped drag the shares down more than  4 percent.