Nasdaq 4th-qtr earnings more than triple
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Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.  said on Tuesday that quarterly earnings more than tripled, helped by strong trade revenue.
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Internet auction firm eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) reported third-quarter earnings a penny above Wall Street estimates. The company said third-quarter earnings came in at 28 cents per diluted share
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc  said on  Tuesday its fourth-quarter earnings rose as a timely bet  against subprime mortgages and higher investment banking fees  helped it sidestep the credit crunch that hammered the rest of  Wall Street.
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The giant technology company gave Wall Street a pleasant surprise by announcing quarterly earnings that were far higher â up 24 percent â than most analysts had forecast.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc.  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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Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. ,  which runs the largest U.S. electronic stock exchange, said on  Thursday that its quarterly profit more than tripled on higher  revenues and the strength of new products and customer service  initiatives, beating analysts&#39; estimates.
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Goldman Sachs reported a 23 percent increase in earnings for the fourth quarter, driven by robust gains in investment banking, asset management and trading.
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Profits more than double but were restrained by futures contracts.
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Though the macroeconomic picture remains cloudy, major IT vendors, such as Apple, Microsoft, and EMC, for the most part reported solid third-quarter earnings this week, giving technology investors hope for the rest of the year.Thursday was a busy day on Wall Street with Microsoft, EMC, and Motorola reporting.After the market closed,&#160;Microsoft reported a 23 percent quarterly jump in net income, which hit $4.29 billion as demand for Windows and Office software remained strong. Revenue was $13.76 billion, a 27 increase from one year earlier. The company said it was the fastest revenue growth spurt for their first fiscal quarter since 1999, around the height of the dot-com boom. That should help reassure some investors that despite concerns about the U.S. economy, at least certain areas of the IT sector are still managing to show strong growth.In after-hours trading right after the announcement, Microsoft shares rose by $1.98 to $33.98.EMC&#39;s profit jumped&#160;as the data-storage company made gains on the sale of part of its stake in virtualization software maker VMware. EMC reported that net income was $492.9 million, compared with a profit of $283.7 million last year. Revenue jumped to $3.3 billion from $2.8 billion a year earlier. Though much of the gains were from&#160;a one-time sale of part of VMware to Cisco, other parts of the business did well: Software rose 25 percent, storage business sales rose 9 percent, and service grew 25 percent. EMC shares rose $1.92 on the news, to close at $24.45.Motorola, meanwhile, reported an abrupt drop, of 94 percent, in quarterly profit, as it searched to find a follow-up to its Razr mobile phone. Net income was $60 million, while revenue fell 17 percent to $8.81 billion. Nevertheless investors apparently were heartened that the company saw small boosts in the average selling price for mobile devices -- something that even mighty Nokia did not experience last quarter.Motorola forecast earnings from continuing operations for the fourth quarter of $0.12 to $0.14 a share, while analysts had expected earnings of $0.10. So even though profit was way down, company shares managed to jump $0.75 to $19.30 Thursday.Apple kicked off the week on a high note, on Monday reporting solid earnings that were fueled by record Mac sales and shipments of 1.12 million iPhones. The company handily beat analyst estimates with income of $904 million, 67 percent higher than a year earlier. Earnings per share were $1.01. Analysts polled by Thomson Financial had forecast $760.45 million in net income and earnings of $0.84 per share. Apple jumped $11.80 to close at $186.16 the day after its earnings report. Even though Apple shares have been trading at all-time highs, the common wisdom on Wall Street is that things will get even better.Brokerages like Goldman Sachs and UBS reiterated &quot;buy&quot; ratings and Citi Investment Research headlined its report: &quot;The Best Is Yet To Come.&quot; With the new Mac OS, Leopard, going to market on Friday, sales are expected to do well through the holiday season.Still, concerns about the U.S. economy linger. With the price of oil skyrocketing and the housing-market crisis making headlines, investors remain worried that economic concerns will weigh on IT sales. But earnings from the major IT bellwethers over the last few weeks are showing that technology is proving to be resilient, so far.
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NEW YORK - Stocks moved modestly higher Monday as investors discounted another technology profit warning and focused instead on positive outlooks for third- and fourth-quarter earnings.    While some investors were concerned that rising energy prices and the summer's economic slowdown would undermine third-quarter results for many companies, a new report by J.P...
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Yellow Roadway (YELL:Nasdaq - news - research) boosted its third-quarter earnings guidance to $1.30 to $1.35 a share, a dime better than its previous forecast.
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Alcoa&#39;s profit warning a thorn in industrials&#39; side. Nasdaq up with PeopleSoft, extended tech rally. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Alcoa&#39;s profit warning bruised the Dow Friday, while the broader market inched higher
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The Nasdaq composite index rose on Thursday as a reassuring profit and outlook from Oracle Corp and a higher earnings forecast from Qualcomm Inc added to optimism about technology stocks.
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The results surpassed Wall Street's expectations in both sales and profit, with fourth-quarter earnings reaching $3 billion for the first time in the company's history.
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Dow Chemical Co. on Thursday cemented Wall Street concerns that strong third-quarter earnings might tough to maintain as the industry raises prices to combat soaring raw-material and energy costs.
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U.S. stocks finished slightly higher  on Monday as investors bet on good earnings news as the  fourth-quarter reporting season kicks off, although a  late-afternoon wave of computerized trades wiped out part of  the session's gains.
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Lehman Brothers reports fourth-quarter and fiscal-year earnings.