Reuters – Costco Wholesale Corp , the largest U.S. warehouse club operator, reported a 7 percent rise in August sales at stores open at least a year, aided by surge in gasoline prices and foreign currency gains.
Also tagged business, costco, gasoline-prices, largest, open-at-least, sales-at-stores, stores-open, the-largest, warehouse-clubReuters – China Construction Bank (CCB) (0939.HK) (601939.SS), posted a 20 percent rise in second-quarter profit as the world’s second-biggest lender by market value seeks to raise $11 billion to fuel growth restrained by a weak capital base.
Also tagged beijing, branch-located, business, ccb, china, china-construction, customer-walks, fuel-growth, market-value, the-world, weak-capital, worldReuters – Loews Corp , run by the billionaire Tisch family, posted an 8 percent rise in quarterly net profit, as the conglomerate recorded a gain on investments.
Also tagged billionaire, business, gain-on-investments, loews, loews-corp, quarterly-net, the-billionaire, the-conglomerateAP – Royal Dutch Shell, Europe’s largest oil company, reported a 15 percent rise in net profit for the second quarter thanks to higher oil and gas prices and the early completion of a cost-cutting program.
Also tagged business, europe, higher-oil, largest-oil, net-profit, royal, royal-dutch, second-quarterReuters – Diversified U.S. manufacturer Honeywell International Inc reported a 4 percent rise in quarterly profit and boosted its full-year forecast, citing rebounding demand for its industrial and automotive products.
Also tagged business, citing-rebounding, diversified, honeywell, honeywell-international, its-full-year, its-industrial, quarterly-profitReuters – Microsoft Corp easily beat Wall Street forecasts with a 48 percent rise in quarterly profit, but its shares barely moved in the absence of powerful new signs of a rebound in global tech spending.
Also tagged 2009-file, absence, being-installed, colorado, golden, microsoft-corp, powerful-new, the-new, wilkingTOKYO (Reuters) – Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group posted a 59 percent rise in quarterly profit helped by stronger lending, becoming the third major Japanese bank to post market-beating results, in a sign that Tokyo’s lenders may now be on the mend. Read the rest here: MUFG profit up 59 percent, scales …
Also tagged becoming-the-third, financial, financial-group, japanese, lenders-may, mend, mitsubishi, read-the-rest, rest, the-rest, third-major, tokyo, ufjLONDON (Reuters) – Barclays Plc fell short of expectations with an 8 percent rise in half-year profit as bad debts at Britain’s second biggest bank almost doubled to offset buoyant earnings from its enlarged investment bank. Continue reading here: Barclays profit up 8 percent, bad debts almost double
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