The company said net income increased to $56.9 million from $49.3 million a year ago on strength in the home and family businesses, but it cut its full-year outlook amid soaring materials costs.
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April 24, 2008
The supermarket posted quarterly profit of $193.4 million, up from $174.4 a year earlier, helped by strong demand for fuel and the early Easter holiday.
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April 24, 2008
SAINT PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Insurer Travelers Companies said Thursday its profit declined in the first quarter, in part because investment income fell amid a weak market.
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April 24, 2008
The chemical giant said earnings slipped 3 percent to $941 in the first quarter, but still managed to beat Wall Street expectations.
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April 24, 2008
DETROIT (AP) -- Pulte Homes Inc. said Wednesday its first-quarter loss widened after it took a hefty charge amid a worsening housing market.
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April 24, 2008
Texas-based E.D.S. said it earned $62 million in the first quarter, down from $164 million a year earlier when it recorded a huge contract termination payment from Verizon.
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April 24, 2008
Net income totaled $991 million for the first quarter as the credit card lender saw more U.S. cardholders fail to make their payments.
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April 24, 2008
The railroad?s first-quarter profit beat estimates, as strong pricing offset flat freight volumes and a lower tax rate, but it?s second-quarter outlook fell below market expectations.
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April 24, 2008
The 95-0 Senate vote sends the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act back to the House, which could approve it early next week.
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April 24, 2008
The aluminum tycoon Oleg V. Deripaska said that he had purchased 25 percent of the Arctic mining company Norilsk Nickel, furthering his quest to consolidate the Russian metals and mining industry.
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April 24, 2008
President Bush is facing mounting criticism from Palestinians over his planned attendance of Israel?s 60th birthday celebration.
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April 24, 2008
A analysis of proteins extracted from fossils has yielded the first molecular data confirming the hypothesis of a close dinosaur-bird ancestry, scientists say.
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April 24, 2008
Senator John McCain took direct aim at the Bush administration on Thursday as he stood in the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, the area hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina.
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April 24, 2008
Iraq?s largest Sunni bloc has agreed in principle to return to the cabinet after a nine-month boycott, several Sunni leaders said.
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April 24, 2008
Recent groundings have raised flags about skipped inspections and botched repairs to wiring, but what really worries specialists is runway collisions.
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April 24, 2008
But the few homeowners in trouble in affluent Greenwich are tapping into other resources that most people cannot call upon to help prevent the ultimate indignity.
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April 24, 2008
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