Profit projections slide for fourth quarter
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Projections for S&P 500 companies' fourth-quarter earnings swung to a 6.1 percent drop on Monday from an 11.5 percent rise on October 1, in the biggest quarterly move since Reuters Estimates started compiling analysts' forecasts in 1999.
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Fourth-quarter earnings dropped 30 percent to $128.9 million on restructuring and other charges, but the results still beat analystsâ estimates.
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General Motors said that soaring health care costs and problems with its European division caused its fourth-quarter profits to fall by more than a third.
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Gap Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit fell 35 percent in a gloomy performance that triggered a recent management purge and doomed the slumping retailer's newest chain.
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The Marsh & McLennan Companies said its profit fell 62 percent in the fourth quarter as competition reduced the commissions the insurance broker charged.
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The company said fourth-quarter net profit fell 42 percent to 5.6 billion kronor ($880 billion) and announced it would cut 1,000 jobs as part of a cost-cutting strategy.
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Wall Street analysts slashed their projections for fourth-quarter earnings growth as companies reported weak results, according to a weekly survey by Reuters Estimates.
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Wall Street analysts have lowered expectations for U.S. corporate earnings in the first two quarters of 2008, after results for the fourth quarter showed conditions much worse than initially expected, according to a weekly survey by Reuters Estimates.
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Wall Street analysts slashed their  projections for fourth-quarter earnings growth as companies  reported weak results, according to a weekly survey by Reuters  Estimates.
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M&T Bank Corp , the first large  U.S. bank to report fourth-quarter results, said on Monday that  profit fell, hurt by turmoil in residential real estate  markets.
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Tool maker Black & Decker Corp   slashed its fourth-quarter profit outlook on Friday, citing  worse-than-expected conditions in North America and a one-time  charge, and its shares fell as much as 10 percent.
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Hurt by rising losses from home equity loans, Wells Fargo & Co. said fourth-quarter profit fell, the first decline in more than six years.
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Chevron Corp. , the No. 2 U.S.  oil company, said on Friday its fourth-quarter profit fell,  pulled down by weaker natural gas prices and refining margins.
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The company said its fourth-quarter profit tumbled 26.3 percent due to slumping U.S. motorcycle sales amid a weakening economy.
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Dow Chemical Co  said on  Tuesday that fourth-quarter earnings fell, hurt by weak U.S.  housing and auto markets, spiraling energy and raw material  costs, and one-time restructuring charges.
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The companyâs shares plunged 15.9 percent to a nearly four-year low of $10.36 in morning trading after its net profit fell 84 percent in the fourth quarter.
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The newspaper publisher and television station operator said fourth-quarter profit dropped 70 percent, hurt by a write-down and less political advertising revenue.