Toll Brothers quarterly profit falls sharply
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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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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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Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns posted drops in quarterly profit yesterday, surprising some investors one day after two other big investment banks reported a rise in earnings.
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Brokerage Bear Stearns Companies  BSC.N on Wednesday said quarterly profit fell 10 percent hurt  by lower investment banking revenue and higher expenses.
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Burlington Northern Santa Fe BNI.N,  the No. 2 U.S. rail group, on Tuesday reported a sharp drop in  net profit after taking a charge related to a change in the way  it estimates asbestos and environmental liabilities, but posted  record quarterly revenue.
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The chemical maker reported a quarterly profit that was lower than expected, in part due to weak demand from the housing and auto markets.
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Soaring fuel bills and the aftermath of terror attacks push profits at transport group Go-Ahead lower.
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Bear Stearns Cos Inc  said on Thursday quarterly profit plunged 61 percent to its lowest level in five years on bad bets on subprime mortgages and disrupted fixed-income trading.
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Hershey Co  on Thursday posted a sharp drop in quarterly profit, hurt by sluggish sales, restructuring charges and soaring costs for ingredients.
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Cell phone maker Motorola Inc. on Wednesday said net profits fell sharply in the fourth quarter, and it warned that the recovery in its struggling handset unit will take longer than expected.
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The wood products company said Thursday that its fourth-quarter profit fell sharply from a year ago, when it posted a big gain from the sale of forest land.
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US mortgage lender Freddie Mac suffers a steep fall in second quarter profits, as record defaults on home loans take their toll.
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Sears, Roebuck and Co. on Thursday  said quarterly profit fell sharply compared with a year  earlier, when the department store operator had a gain from the  sale of its credit card business, but the profit topped  forecasts as the retailer slashed costs.
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Toll Brothers, the builder of luxury homes, said on Wednesday that it expected to report a 22 percent drop in first-quarter revenue and that it saw no sign of improvement in the depressed housing market.
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Bear Stearns Cos Inc  said on  Thursday quarterly profit plunged 61 percent to its lowest  level in five years on bad bets on subprime mortgages and  disrupted fixed-income trading.
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Mounting losses at U.S. arm Chrysler   forced DaimlerChrysler DCXGn.DE to cut its 2006 operating   profit forecast by around 1 billion euros ($1.27 billion) on   Friday, sending its shares skidding lower.
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Government data showing an unexpected surge in new-home sales were little comfort to Toll Brothers.