William Hill 1st-Half Profit Jumps on Betting Results
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William Hill Plc, the UK&#39;s No. 2 bookmaker, said first-half profit jumped 36 percent as fewer favorites won at events such as the Euro 2004 soccer tournament.
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Quarterly earnings rose to $58 million, or 18 cents per share, from $48 million, or 16 cents per share, last year. Excluding results from casinos scheduled to be sold, a write-down of the book value of Caesars
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Software maker Reynolds &amp; Reynolds Co. on Wednesday boosted its first-quarter earnings forecast by 8 cents per share, citing improved cost management and gains from a weak dollar.
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A William Hill client from Surrey has staked Â£10,000 on South Africa at 2/1 to beat England in the opening game of their Test Series, and a further Â£10,000 on S Africa to win the Series at odds of 13/10.
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LONDON : British satellite broadcaster BSkyB said profit rose by 16 percent in the first quarter as the group enjoyed strong subscriber growth in the run-up to the key Christmas trading period.
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NEW YORK  - Washington Post Co.  said on Friday that quarterly profit jumped, boosted by results at its Kaplan education unit and television broadcasting operations.
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Business & money: Group behind the catalogue store and Homebase reports a 40% leap in first-half profits.
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HONG KONG Cheung Kong (Holdings), the holding company of the billionaire Li Ka-shing, said Thursday that first-half profit almost doubled, spurred by higher earnings from its Hutchison Whampoa unit and a surge in property sales.
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Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. posted a higher profit Wednesday for its fiscal first quarter, driven by strong revenue gains in its broadcast and cable TV operations.
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SunTrust Banks Inc. STI.N, which  fired three executives over its accounting for bad loans, on  Friday restated first-half profit higher by $25.1 million,  slightly more than it had forecast, to fix the errors.
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The retailer raises guidance after an impressive first quarter.
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Profit rose for the first time in eight quarters after Gap Inc. eliminated jobs and reduced inventory.
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Fresh off a surprising legal victory in its bid to acquire PeopleSoft, Oracle reported a 16 percent jump in profit Tuesday, beating Wall Street&#39;s estimate by a penny.
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â¢ Colorado Springs-based Century Casinos Inc. said third- quarter profits rose 35 percent to $1.23 million, or 9 cents a share, from $914,000, or 7 cents a share, in the year-ago period.
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Half-year profits at Irish bookmaker Paddy Power double after gamblers have a dismal run of luck.
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Gallaher Group Plc, the UK maker of Benson &amp; Hedges and Silk Cut cigarettes, said first-half profit rose 31 percent as the company sold more tobacco in Eastern Europe.
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News Corp. said quarterly earnings were up 1 percent from a year earlier as results from the Fox broadcast network and news channel outweighed lighter returns from movies and TV production.