Home Depot posts lower quarterly profit
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Home Depot Inc. , the world's  largest home improvement retailer, reported lower  fourth-quarter profit on Tuesday as the weak U.S. housing  market hurt sales at its retail stores, which declined 2  percent.
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DIY chain Home Depot blames the slowdown in the US housing market for its second profit warning in two months.
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Discount retailer Dollar General Corp.   on Thursday posted a 40 percent drop in quarterly profit  on weakening demand for higher-margin products and withdrew its  earnings forecast for the rest of the year.
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DuPont Co. , the No. 2 U.S. chemical maker, on Tuesday posted a lower quarterly profit after a large tax gain a year earlier and forecast earnings growth in 2005.
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Best Buy Co. Inc.  reported lower-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday as the consumer electronics retailer slashed prices on flat-panel TVs to boost sales at the start of the holiday shopping season.
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Campbell Soup Co  posted lower  quarterly profit on Friday, hurt by higher commodity costs and  promotional spending.
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Home Depot Inc. (HD.N), the world's largest home improvement retailer, on Tuesday said quarterly profit rose, topping estimates, as technology upgrades and other store improvements helped boost sales.
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US home improvement chain Home Depot says a US housing market slowdown led to a drop in profits for 2006.
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Kroger Co., the largest US grocer, reported a lower quarterly profit Tuesday, hurt by debt costs even as sales rebounded in Southern California where it was hit by a strike.
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Office products retailer Office Depot Inc. on Wednesday reported a decline in third-quarter profit due to softening in its European business, disruptions associated with the hurricanes in the southeastern United States, and lower-than-expected back-to-school sales.
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Lennar Corp. , the  third-largest U.S. home builder, on Tuesday said quarterly  profit fell 39 percent, citing a steeper and  faster-than-expected decline in the U.S. housing market.
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The maker of home-improvement products gave a first-quarter outlook that was lower than Wall Street forecasts, citing the sluggish U.S. housing market.
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Pier 1 Imports Inc., a home furnishings retailer, said Tuesday its second-quarter income fell 43.3 percent due to a 3 percent drop in stores open at least a year.
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Best Buy Co. Inc.  reported lower-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday as the consumer electronics retailer cut prices on flat-panel televisions to try to spur holiday sales.
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Home Depot Inc. HD.N on Tuesday  reported a 19 percent rise in second-quarter profit, topping  estimates, as store renovations and efforts to improve service  drove higher average sales in every category.
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Dow Chemical Co  on Tuesday reported a drop in quarterly profit that was not as steep as analysts had expected as growth overseas helped offset weak U.S. housing and auto markets and spiraling energy and raw material costs.
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Home Depot Inc  raised its fiscal-year earnings forecast slightly on Monday after the home-improvement retailer agreed to buy back 289.3 million shares of its common stock for $10.7 billion.