Bradford & Bingley profits slide
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Bradford & Bingley reports a sharp fall in profits after writing down the value of its sub-prime assets.
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Luxury home builder Toll Brothers  on Thursday reported sharply lower quarterly net income, hurt by a downturn in the U.S. housing market.
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Fourth-quarter profit plunged on costs from acquisitions and job cuts in Europe, sending shares down.
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Quarterly net profit fell to $81 million, from $133 million a year earlier, as the company took charges related to restructuring and disposing of some vending machines.
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Shares of Albertsons fell more than 8 per cent to $23.65 after the number two US supermarket chain missed quarterly earnings expectations and warned full-year profit would be at the low end of estimates.
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Persistent economic sluggishness and continued fallout from the Southern California labor dispute slashed second quarter profits 36 percent for Albertsons Inc.
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Applied Materials Inc  on Tuesday posted a lower quarterly profit as revenue declined 8 percent amid a slump in the semiconductor equipment manufacturing industry.
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Kraft Foods Inc.  on Tuesday posted a 28 percent drop in quarterly profit, weighed down by restructuring and higher costs for commodities like cheese and coffee.
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Newcastle United&#39;s profits for the year ending July 31 dropped more than three million pounds ($6.7 million Cdn) from the year before, the Premier League club said Thursday.
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The worldÂs No. 1 maker of sport shoes said profit fell as stock-based compensation weighed on results.
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CHICAGO The nation&#39;s largest food manufacturer, Northfield-based Kraft Foods Incorporated, posted a four percent decline in third-quarter profits today.
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Tool maker Black & Decker Corp  said on Thursday quarterly profit fell due to the weak U.S. housing market and higher commodity prices.
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British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline said Wednesday that third-quarter profits fell owing to fierce competition from generic drugs and sliding sales of controversial diabetes drug Avandia.
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Sainsbury expects first-half profits to slump nearly two-thirds from last year, as it bleeds market share to rivals and reels from an exodus of top staff.
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BRAMBLES Industries today reported a 7 per cent decline in net profit to $306.6 million after taking slugs in writedowns and costs particularly from the restructure of its CHEP pallet business.
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Unilever, the consumer products giant, said today that profits had slipped during the third quarter - as had sales of its top 400 brands.
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PROFITS at BSkyB fell 19% in the half-year to Christmas as it spent extra on its move into broadband internet.