P&G and Colgate post double-digit earnings increases
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Household and personal care products  leaders Procter & Gamble Co  and smaller rival  Colgate-Palmolive Co  both posted double-digit quarterly  profit increases on Tuesday, helped by cost cuts, the weaker  dollar and sales of new items.
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Borders Group Inc. (BGP.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the No. 2 US bookseller, on Tuesday said quarterly earnings rose, beating estimates by the company and Wall Street, largely because of stronger-than-expected book sales.
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Household and personal care products makers Procter &amp; Gamble Co  and Colgate-Palmolive Co  both reported higher quarterly profit on Thursday, boosted by sales in emerging markets as the U.S. economy slowed.
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Household and personal care products leaders Procter & Gamble Co  and smaller rival Colgate-Palmolive Co  both posted double-digit quarterly profit increases on Tuesday, helped by cost cuts, the weaker dollar and sales of new items.
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P&G said second-quarter earnings rose 14 percent as strong sales growth and cost-cutting measures more than offset higher commodity costs.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. on Tuesday posted higher-than-expected quarterly profits, fueled by surprising strength in bond trading and investment banking growth.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc  said on Tuesday fourth-quarter earnings rose 2 percent, beating expectations and capping a record year, but its shares fell after the investment bank cautioned that markets will remain challenging in the near future.
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Web search leader Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , in its first earnings report as a publicly held company, on Thursday posted a higher net profit as revenue more than doubled on strong Web search advertising.
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Procter & Gamble Co  on Tuesday  posted a 14 percent increase in quarterly profit, helped by  sales of Gillette razors, Charmin toilet paper and Pampers  diapers, the weaker dollar and cost-cutting measures.
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By Reuters. Procter &amp; Gamble, the maker of Crest toothpaste, Tide laundry detergent and other well-known brands, said yesterday that quarterly profit rose 14 percent on strong sales in all regions
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Procter & Gamble Co.  stood by its sales and profit forecasts for the current quarter on Thursday and said it should return to double-digit earnings per share growth by the fiscal year beginning next July.
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Excluding the one-time items, earnings per share more than doubled at the publisher as revenue rose nearly 20 percent.
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Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers yesterday posted higher-than-expected quarterly profits, fuelled by surprising strength in bond trading and investment banking growth.
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Toll Brothers Inc. reported on  Thursday quarterly earnings that nearly doubled, buoyed by  growing demand for its luxury homes, and the company raised its  forecast for 2005.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc  said on Tuesday its fourth-quarter earnings rose 2 percent, trouncing expectations as higher merger advisory fees and surprisingly strong debt trading results helped it sidestep the credit crunch that has hammered the rest of Wall Street.
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Procter & Gamble, the consumer products company, said quarterly profit jumped 14 percent, boosted by strong sales and a gain from the sale of its juice business.
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Tribune Co.  reported a higher quarterly profit on Thursday because of one-time gains, while an extra week in the quarter boosted advertising revenue at the company's newspaper operations.