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CHARLOTTE, NC - Shares of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc.&#39;s fell sharply Monday as a 79 percent plunge in third-quarter earnings and an intensifying accounting investigation overshadowed the pastrymaker&#39;s statement that the low-carb craze might be easing.
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The bankâs net income slid to $942 million, or 53 cents a share, from $1.19 billion, or 66 cents a share, in the period a year ago.
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Dollar General (DG:NYSE - news - research) fell Thursday after reporting cost overruns that left first-quarter earnings a penny shy of Wall Street estimates.
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Fourth-quarter earnings dropped 30 percent to $128.9 million on restructuring and other charges, but the results still beat analystsâ estimates.
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The company's dismal earnings have dimmed investor enthusiasm.
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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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Wall Street analysts have lowered expectations for U.S. corporate earnings in the first two quarters of 2008, after results for the fourth quarter showed conditions much worse than initially expected, according to a weekly survey by Reuters Estimates.
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The contract electronics manufacturer posted a 90 percent drop in quarterly net profit, but earnings excluding special charges were higher than expected.
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DOVER, Del.  -- Chemicals maker DuPont said Tuesday fourth-quarter earnings fell 37 percent from a year earlier, when one-time items bolstered the bottom line.
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The bank said its fourth-quarter earnings fell sharply,  to $268 million from $5.26 billion a year earlier, hurt by mounting credit losses and weak investment banking results.
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U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley  MWD.N on Wednesday said quarterly profit dropped 34 percent  amid reduced trading revenue, falling well short of Wall  Street's already-lowered expectations after a summer of  sluggish market activity.
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Bear Stearns Cos. said yesterday its profit plunged 62 percent in the third quarter as turbulence in the debt market and wrong-way bets on mortgages crunched the investment bank's credit portfolio and bond business.
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Why did the stock decline after a blowout fourth quarter?
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Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns Cos. said fiscal third-quarter earnings fell, their first declines in more than a year. The results sparked concern that Wall Street profits are slowing, and shares of many securities firms dropped.
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Projections for S&P 500 companies'  fourth-quarter earnings swung to a 6.1 percent drop on Monday  from an 11.5 percent rise on October 1, in the biggest  quarterly move since Reuters Estimates started compiling  analysts' forecasts in 1999.
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Stocks fell on Thursday, on a handful of disappointing earnings reports, including results from cable TV operator Comcast Corp , and on uncertainty over how badly the financial sector will be affected by the credit crisis.
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A slew of dismal earnings results drove European equity markets sharply lower on Thursday as fears grew of a global economic slowdown.