Gap 1Q profit down 26 percent
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Gap Inc.'s first-quarter profit dropped 26 percent as a new management team scrambled to regain the clothing retailer's fashion sense.
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British drinks giant Diageo reported a small fall in annual headline profits before tax, which were crimped by the strength of sterling.
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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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Toll Brothers said its first-quarter profit fell 67 percent as a result of lower sales, write-downs and other costs.
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U.S. apparel chains, which are already suffering from slow back-to-school spending, on Wednesday saw their shares take a hit from a rating downgrade of industry leader Gap Inc.
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Tokyo's Nikkei fell nearly 1 percent to a one-month low by Thursday afternoon as stocks like NEC Corp. dropped after disappointing earnings from U.S. companies fanned concern over profit trends and sent Wall Street lower.
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U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley on  Wednesday said quarterly profit fell amid reduced trading  revenue, reflecting the impact of sluggish markets this summer.
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Credit Suisse says first-quarter profit will be $1bn less than forecast after a write-down.
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The Warner Music Group said first-quarter profit fell 74 percent on an 11 percent decline in sales.
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JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co. third quarter profits fell 13 percent, mainly because of weakness in trading operations and costs related to its merger with Bank One.
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High-end jewelry retailer Tiffany &amp; Co. said Thursday that third-quarter profit fell 26 percent to miss Wall Street expectations by 5 cents per share, due to weak Japan sales, high diamond and precious metal
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Gap Inc.  said on Thursday its sales at stores open at least a year fell 8 percent in November, below analysts' average forecast, as fewer customers visited its stores even during the kick-off to the busy holiday season.
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Rupert Murdochâs media company said quarterly profit fell 24 percent from a year earlier, when it had a one-time gain from asset sales.
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Shares of Gap Inc. fell as  much as 4.9 percent on Friday, a day after the apparel company  reported a lower quarterly profit and said 2007 would be a  transition year with earnings well short of Wall Street  expectations.
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Shares of Gap Inc. fell as much as 4.9 percent on Friday, a day after the apparel giant reported a lower quarterly profit and said 2007 would be a transition year with earnings well short of Wall Street expectations.
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Third-quarter profit fell 1 percent, as stronger sales of almost all of the companyâs key drugs could not offset  higher production costs and taxes and a restructuring charge.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co said on Wednesday quarterly profit fell a worse-than-expected 24 percent as the No. 3 U.S. bank lost $1.3 billion on risky mortgages and set aside more money for rising losses on home-equity loans.