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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Royal Dutch Shell Plc  said on Thursday its fourth-quarter current cost of supply (CCS) net profit rose 14 percent to $6 billion.
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Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell said on Thursday that net profits leapt 23 percent last year to a record 31.331 billion dollars (21.115 billion euros), energised by soaring crude prices.
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Oracle Corp. , the world&#39;s third  largest software maker, reported profit that beat Wall Street  expectations on Tuesday and gave a positive growth outlook for  the current quarter that nudged its shares higher.
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BP PLC reported a 53 percent rise in fourth-quarter net profit Tuesday as oil prices surged, but full-year profits fell due to refining outages and rising costs.
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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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Computer server and software maker IBM said Monday its fourth-quarter earnings from continuing operations rose 24 percent from a year ago, beating Wall Street expectations by a wide margin.
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Business software maker Oracle Corp.  on Monday posted a higher quarterly profit on firm demand for its market-leading database software.
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Energy giant BP, the world's third-biggest oil major, reported on Tuesday that its fourth-quarter net profit jumped sharply due to higher prices and volumes.
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French oil giant Total SA said Wednesday that fourth-quarter profits rose 62 percent as oil prices surged and new projects in Angola and Qatar boosted production.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O posted a   quarterly profit on Tuesday that topped Wall Street estimates   as new business software license revenue rose, sending its   shares up 13 percent to their highest in four years.
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LONDON  - British energy giant BP PLC said Wednesday that oil and gas production rose four per cent in the fourth quarter of 2004, largely due to higher output from Russia, but added that higher taxes there would take a chunk out of earnings.
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Goldman Sachs on Thursday said fourth-quarter profit rose 23 per cent as its fixed-income, currency and commodities business soared while a rebounding stock market boosted investment banking.
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Oracle Corp. , the world's third-largest software maker, reported on Tuesday higher quarterly profit as sales of products it acquired over the past year helped boost earnings.
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Natural gas producer and pipeline company Williams Cos. Inc.  posted a higher fourth-quarter profit on Thursday that topped Wall Street expectations, as a tax settlement and higher margins for natural gas liquids offset weaker gas prices.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS.N on  Thursday said fourth-quarter profit rose as its fixed-income,  currency and commodities business soared while a rebounding  stock market boosted investment banking.
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Fourth-quarter profit surged at Alcan Inc.   on higher aluminum prices, the company said on Wednesday.