Toll Brothers earnings rise, lowers year forecast
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Toll Brothers , the leading  U.S. luxury home builder, reported fiscal quarterly profit rose  3 percent on higher home prices, but the company lowered its  earnings forecast for the year in another signal of a slowing  U.S. home market.
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HORSHAM, Pa. -- Luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers Inc. said Thursday its fiscal second-quarter profit fell sharply, as the company took hefty charges to write down property values amid continued weakness in the housing market.
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Italian industrial group Fiat, based largely on autos, reported a bigger-than-expected rise in second-quarter net profit and raised its forecast for the year.
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Transport group Go-Ahead says its rail business boosted profits this year but next year will be more difficult.
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Auto insurer posts strong earnings, but a down cycle may be about to begin.
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Toll Brothers Inc. , which builds luxury homes, on Tuesday reported lower quarterly earnings amid continuing softness in some of the once-hottest U.S. housing markets.
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Luxury home builder Toll Brothers Inc.  on Thursday said it expects to see a double-digit drop in fiscal first-quarter revenue and orders, but cancellations were down from the prior quarter.
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Toll Holdings Ltd.'s  Pacific  National unit has won a A$1 billion ($780 million), seven-year  contract to transport steel for Bluescope Steel Ltd.   and OneSteel Ltd. , sending Toll's shares up 2.5  percent.
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Home builder Toll Brothers Inc. today reported a 44 percent drop in quarterly profit but predicted the slumping U.S. housing market may have hit bottom, particularly in the Washington region.
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Toll Brothers Inc.  on Thursday said the weak U.S. housing market drove down its quarterly profit by 67 percent after write-downs for lower land values, and the luxury home builder lowered its forecast.
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Federal Express raised its earnings forecast, citing strong demand for its international express, ground and less-than-truckload services.
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Package delivery company FedEx Corp   on Thursday said quarterly profit rose despite a  slowing U.S. economy, but lowered its full-year earnings  outlook, sending its shares down more than 2 percent.
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Luxury home builder Toll Brothers  said quarterly profit fell 79 percent, hurt by the U.S. housing slump, but its shares rose along with those of other builders on Thursday after government data showed a better-than-expected rise in new home sales.
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Internet service provider EarthLink  Inc. on Tuesday posted higher quarterly profit, boosted by cost  controls, but quarterly sales fell short of analysts'  expectations, as did its forecast for 2005 sales.
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Luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers Inc. (TOL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday reported record fourth-quarter homebuilding sales and backlog, citing a growing population of affluent buyers.
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Toll Brothers Inc., the largest U.S.  builder of luxury homes, on Thursday said its quarterly net  earnings fell sharply, after a goodwill impairment charge and a  writedown for the lower value of land and as the housing market  continued to flounder.
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BOSTON/NEW YORK  - Luxury home builder Toll Brothers Inc.  reported a 44 percent drop in quarterly profit on Tuesday but signaled that the worst may be over for the sagging U.S. housing market.