Merrill Lynch Beats Expectations as Profit Falls
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Merrill Lynch & Company said today third-quarter profit fell 8 percent, hurt by reduced investment banking and trading.
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Bank of America Corp , the No. 2 U.S. bank, posted a much-larger-than-expected 32 percent drop in quarterly profit on Thursday, hurt by mounting credit losses and dismal investment banking results.
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The investment bank said third-quarter profit fell less than expected, as strength in stock trading and investment banking offset losses from the mortgage market.
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Kicking off the new earnings season, aluminum company Alcoa Inc  reported on Monday that second-quarter profit slipped, but still matched Wall Street expectations, even though revenue fell short of forecasts.
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Kicking off the new earnings season,  aluminum company Alcoa Inc  reported on Monday that  second-quarter profit slipped, but still matched Wall Street  expectations, even though revenue fell short of forecasts.
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Merrill Lynch & Co. MER.N, the  biggest U.S. brokerage, said on Tuesday its fourth-quarter  profit fell 1.8 percent as increased banking and brokerage  revenue was offset by higher compensation and other costs.
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In the first sign of the toll that subprime mortgages will take on investment banks for the quarter, Lehman reported a drop in profit, but the firm managed to beat expectations.
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NYSE Group Inc.  posted a fourth-quarter profit on Friday, reversing a year-earlier loss, but results were not as strong as some investors had hoped, and its shares fell.
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Merrill Lynch & Co Inc  on Thursday said it took a $14.1 billion writedown and adjustments in the fourth quarter as bad subprime mortgage bets forced the brokerage to sell pieces of the company to foreign investors to raise capital.
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The home-furnishings retailer reports lower earnings but beats expectations.
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Wall Street was higher after a better-than-expected profit report at Research in Motion and on word that Merrill Lynch might have lined up a  cash infusion from a Singapore fund.
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Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.  posted a 3.2 percent decline in quarterly earnings on Tuesday as the U.S. investment bank wrote down mortgage and leveraged loan assets, but the results beat expectations and its shares rose.
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U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley  MWD.N on Wednesday said quarterly profit dropped by a third  on lower bond trading revenue, weak equities results and higher  expenses, falling short of Wall Street's low expectations and  pushing its shares down as much as 8 percent.
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Stock index futures were little changed on Tuesday before data on inflation and as higher-than-expected earnings from Merrill Lynch & Co.  helped offset concern about the subprime mortgage market.
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Profit at Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.   could take a big hit if the U.S. brokerage heavyweight  cuts the value on nearly $1 billion in subprime lender assets  it bought just eight months ago.
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US investment bank Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. (MER.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday said third-quarter profit fell 8 percent, hurt by reduced trading in
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Merrill Lynch & Co Inc on Thursday posted a quarterly loss of nearly $10 billion after writedowns and adjustments totaling about $16 billion as bad subprime mortgage bets forced the brokerage to sell stakes in the company to foreign investors to raise capital.