Earnings

Small-business owners are having a tough time trying to figure out the best year-end tax strategies for 2008 as the global financial meltdown turns conventional planning wisdom on its head. Many also are unaware of new federal tax rules -- some...

Monday Reports: November Institute for Supply Management index; October construction spending Tuesday Report: November vehicle sales Earnings: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.; Sears Holdings Corp.; Staples Inc. Wednesday Reports: Third-quarter...

The week ahead Economists are predicting grim numbers when the employment report is released Friday. Monday ISM manufacturing index (November) Tuesday Auto sales (November). Earnings: Sears, Staples Wednesday ISM services index (November);...

Deere & Co.'s quarterly profit fell 18 percent as weaker results in its small equipment and credit divisions, coupled with higher expenses, overwhelmed strong sales of farm machinery. The world's largest maker of agricultural equipment also forecast...

Farm-equipment giant Deere & Co. disappointed Wall Street with its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings Wednesday, as higher raw-material costs and weakening non-agricultural sales offset robust farm sales. The latest quarterly results helped the Moline, Ill....

Wall Street staged a surprising comeback Friday, with the major indexes jumping more than 5 percent and the Dow Jones industrials surging nearly 500 points in a late afternoon rally, ending another volatile week that saw stocks reach six-year lows....

Farm-equipment giant Deere & Co., pinched by higher raw-material costs and an accelerating decline in sales to the construction sector, turned in fiscal fourth-quarter earnings Wednesday that fell significantly short of analyst forecasts. The Moline...

The subprime lending industry was starting to buckle under the weight of bad loans in November 2006, when executives at Irvine-based New Century Financial Corp. held a conference call to release their latest earnings. Loan volume was down and defaults...

Hewlett-Packard Co. edged past Wall Street's forecast for the latest quarter, showing some resilience in troubled times, as strong laptop sales helped offset falling printer orders and weakness in some server lines. Profit slipped 2 percent while revenue...

MILWAUKEE (AP) _ Campbell Soup Co.'s higher soup sales were watered down by commodity hedging losses in its first fiscal quarter, as the soupmaker said Monday that profits fell 3.7 percent even as more cash-strapped consumers reached for its brands....

When Deere & Co. reports fiscal fourth-quarter earnings Wednesday, analysts will be focusing more on what the Moline farm-equipment maker has to say about the year ahead than about the quarter that ended Oct. 31. The latest fourth quarter is expected...

Ever bought a lottery ticket? You know how it works: You pay for the ticket, and either it's a winner, or you throw it away. Maybe that's how investors should be thinking about many stocks at this point. With shares of some of America's biggest companies...