Family Dollar Q4 profit up; September sales miss
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Discount retailer Family Dollar Stores   Inc. FDO.N on Thursday posted a 33 percent jump in quarterly   profit, beating Wall Street forecasts, as it kept costs down   and sold more high-margin merchandise.
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M&amp;T Bank Corp. said Tuesday that its profit jumped 19 percent for the quarter ended Sept. 30, helped by a slight rise in interest income and loans during the period.
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Walt Disney Co. quarterly profit rose 24 percent on Thursday as stronger cable television results and a tax benefit more than made up for a sharp slowdown at Disney&#39;s movie studio.
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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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Nordstrom Inc. said Monday its fourth-quarter profit rose 22 percent in the period that includes the crucial holiday season. The results just missed Wall Street expectations, sending the clothing retailer's shares lower in after-hours trading.
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Dollar Tree Stores Inc.  reported a 4.5 percent increase in quarterly profit on Tuesday, meeting Wall Street expectations, helped by strong demand for Halloween merchandise.
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With a lift from the falling dollar and better-than-expected sales in several divisions, the company has delivered a pleasant earnings surprise to its long-suffering shareholders.
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The dollar shaved some gains  on  Thursday, but remained higher on the day, after a report showed  a jump in U.S. jobless claims on the eve of Friday's  influential monthly U.S. jobs report.
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H.J. Heinz Co.  posted higher quarterly profit on Friday, helped by new products, the weak dollar and increased marketing.
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The company posted fourth-quarter profit of $414.9 million, helped by growth in emerging markets and the weaker dollar.
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Johnson & Johnson, the medical and consumer products company, said Tuesday that its fourth-quarter earnings rose almost 10 percent, in part because of lower taxes and a weak dollar that propelled overseas sales.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on Thursday said fourth-quarter profit rose as its fixed-income, currency and commodities business soared while a rebounding stock market boosted investment banking.
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The dollar rose on Wednesday but  stayed within narrow ranges, as traders adjusted positions  ahead of Friday's U.S. payrolls data for September, the final  jobs report before November's presidential elections.
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Luxury jeweler Tiffany & Co.  said on Thursday that quarterly profit rose, helped by strong sales in U.S. and international markets, with the exception of Japan.
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ConocoPhillips  posted higher  fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday as record oil prices  outweighed lower profits from gasoline production.
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Walt Disney Co.  quarterly profit  rose 24 percent on Thursday as stronger cable television  results and a tax benefit more than made up for a sharp  slowdown at Disney's movie studio.
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A big climb in September U.S. retail  sales and larger-than-expected gains in underlying producer  prices boosted hopes for stronger growth and views the Federal  Reserve will keep raising interest rates.