MasterCard posts profit; shares sink on margin woes
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MasterCard Inc.  on Friday reported a higher-than-expected fourth-quarter profit as spending volume jumped, but the credit card company warned that operating margin growth may slow in 2007, and its shares fell as much as 9.9 percent.
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Stocks fell on Friday after American Express Co  was the latest company to warn of mounting credit-card defaults and slowdown in consumer spending, adding to expectations of a U.S. recession.
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Stocks fell on Friday, led by a sell-off in financial shares on concerns about rising credit card defaults at companies such as American Express Co .
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Blockbuster Inc.  on Wednesday posted a &#36;1.42 billion quarterly loss due to a charge, while profit from its operations slid due to higher marketing costs, falling rental demand and escalating competition.
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McGraw-Hill Cos , the book and  magazine publisher and owner of Standard & Poor's, on Thursday  said fourth-quarter profit fell 31 percent, as disruptions in  global capital markets dampened demand for credit ratings.
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Profits at US bank Bear Stearns fall 61% as a result of the credit crisis and exposure to sub-prime debt.
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Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.  posted a 3.2 percent decline in quarterly earnings on Tuesday as the U.S. investment bank wrote down mortgage and leveraged loan assets, but the results beat expectations and its shares jumped before the market opened.
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The results were in line with Wall Street expectations, but its shares slid almost 5 percent in morning trading on disappointment at Costcoâs operating margins.
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AMR Corp , parent of the world's largest airline American Airlines, on Wednesday posted a second-quarter profit that fell short of Wall Street expectations, weakened by severe weather disruptions.
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MasterCard Inc. , the credit card company that went public in May, reported a better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit on Friday, reversing a year-ago loss and sending its shares to a record high.
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McGraw-Hill Cos , the book and magazine publisher and owner of Standard & Poor's, on Thursday said fourth-quarter profit fell 31 percent, as disruptions in global capital markets dampened demand for credit ratings.
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Alliance & Leicester reports a 30% fall in annual profits following the recent credit market turmoil.
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Barclays, the nation's third biggest bank, said Tuesday that net profits sank by about 3.0 percent last year owing to the US subprime housing crisis and related global squeeze on credit.
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The investment bank said 3rd-quarter profit fell to $1.54 billion, hurt by a global credit crisis that cut into stock trading, corporate lending, and results from investments.
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Lehman Brothers, the first of the big US investment banks to report results, unveils a dip in quarterly profits.
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The company has signalled profits of between Â£285 million and Â£295 million, down on Â£311 million a year ago, following a poor run of sales.
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Stock futures dropped on Thursday as a profit warning from Capital One Financial Corp , a credit card issuer and banking company, fueled concerns about the impact of the credit crisis and fallout from the housing slump.