IBM Profit Rises, Aided by Dollar
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International Business Machines Corp.  on Tuesday posted a quarterly net profit that beat Wall Street's recently raised target as solid year-end product sales were buoyed by a weaker U.S. dollar.
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IBM  reported a better-than-expected 24 percent rise in preliminary quarterly earnings on Monday on strong sales in Asia, Europe and emerging markets, driving its shares up as much as 10 percent and spurring a broader tech rally.
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Stock futures rose on Friday, suggesting a rebound from recent session losses, helped by a higher-than-expected profit forecast from IBM  and earnings from economic bellwether General Electric Co .
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IBM  on Thursday forecast  2008 earnings well ahead of Wall Street expectations as strong  growth abroad made up for weaker results in the United States,  sending its shares up 5 percent.
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International Business Machines Corp.  on Tuesday posted a quarterly net profit that beat Wall Street's recently raised profit target as solid year-end product sales were buoyed by a weaker U.S. dollar.
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O, the world's  largest software maker, on Thursday said its first quarter  profit climbed as personal computer sales and business demand  fueled higher sales.
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IBM  reported better-than-expected preliminary quarterly results on Monday on strong performances in Asia, Europe and emerging markets, driving its shares up 10 percent and spurring a broader tech rally.
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Investor's Business Daily - 1 Halting a recent tech slide, Big Blue preannounced that profit rose 24% to $2.80 a share ex items, 20 cents above views. A weak dollar helped lift IBM's revenue   10% to $28.9 bil. But IBM was mum on U.S. results. Meanwhile, German software giant SAP   said Q4 sales rose 10%, beating views. IBM shares rose 5% and SAP 4%.
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Computer giant IBM said its fourth-quarter profit rose 12.2 percent from a year ago to 2.7 billion dollars, topping most Wall Street forecasts.
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Stocks ended higher on Monday, helped by strong results from IBM  that eased worries about the economy and sparked a rebound after last week's losses.
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IBM (IBM) and the rest of the tech industry might have a better year than most onlookers expected. IBM&#39;s third-quarter earnings, released after US markets closed Monday, rose 15% from
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International Business Machines Corp. reported a small gain in third-quarter profits Monday, as increasing revenues in almost every area of the business, including emerging markets such as Russia and China, helped offset expenses from a pension lawsuit.
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US stocks rebounded on Monday after IBM surprised traders with better than expected results, boosting confidence at the start of big week for corporate earnings.
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International Business Machines Corp.  IBM.N on Monday posted a flat quarterly net profit, weighed  down by a legal settlement, but said fourth-quarter results  would be better than expected, and its shares rose 2.3 percent.
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IBM , the world&#39;s largest  technology services company, on Wednesday posted a higher  quarterly profit as revenue rose 9 percent, helped by  software-company acquisitions and growth in computer services.
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IBM , the world's largest technology services company, on Wednesday posted a higher quarterly profit as revenue rose 9 percent, helped by software-company acquisitions and growth in computer services.
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International Business Machines Corp. stock rose in pre-market trading Tuesday, a day after the the company reported better than expected earnings for the third quarter.