7/24/2008 6:55:29 PM Carrollton Bancorp (CRRB - Stock Boards, Stock Quotes, Stock Charts ) announced Thursday that its second quarter profit increased from last year, helped by a rise in mortgage banking fees and gains on loan sales. Net income for the second quarter was ....
7/24/2008 6:48:20 PM Roper Industries, Inc. (ROP - Stock Boards, Stock Quotes, Stock Charts ), an industrial imaging products manufacturer, Thursday reported a 24% rise in earnings for the second quarter on a 12% increase in sales. The company also provided outlook for the ....
7/24/2008 6:47:56 PM Western Digital Corp. (WDC - Stock Boards, Stock Quotes, Stock Charts ), a manufacturer of hard drives, reported Thursday a marginal increase in fourth quarter profit absent the hefty tax benefit recorded in the year-ago period. Earnings per share beat ....
Bleeding cash and with its very survival uncertain, Ford Motor Co., an icon of American automaking, will try to import some of its success from across the Atlantic.
Two cornerstones of the economy -- jobs and housing -- sank to new depths Thursday, with unemployment claims bolting higher and home prices recording one of their steepest drops on record.
House Republicans on Thursday scuttled a bill that Democrats hoped would help lower gasoline prices by forcing the Energy Department to release 70 million barrels of oil -- about a three-day supply -- from the national stockpile.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sued banking giant UBS for fraud Thursday, accusing the company of marketing tens of billions of dollars of auction-rate securities as safe even when they knew the investments were in trouble.
Shares of Nokia Corp., the world's biggest cell phone maker, rose more than 2 percent Thursday as the company's truce with chip maker Qualcomm Inc. alleviated fears that their long-running licensing battle would disrupt the mobile industry.
Shares of Baidu.com Inc. leaped Thursday after China's leading search engine reported scorching second-quarter profits on rapidly accelerating sales to smaller advertisers.
Shares of American Express Co. fell Thursday after amid a decline in the broader market and a day after Standard & Poor's reduced its long-term view on the credit card company.
Two cornerstones of the economy -- jobs and housing -- sank to new depths Thursday, with unemployment claims bolting higher and home prices recording one of their steepest drops on record.
U.S. stocks tumbled, sending financial shares to their worst drop in eight years, after home sales slid more than forecast and investor Bill Gross predicted the housing slump will cost banks and brokerages $1 trillion.
Ford Motor Co., the world's third- biggest automaker, posted a record quarterly loss of $8.7 billion and accelerated a conversion to fuel-efficient vehicles to wean itself from money-losing trucks.
U.S. stocks tumbled, sending financial shares to their worst drop in eight years, after home sales slid more than forecast and investor Bill Gross predicted the housing slump will cost banks and brokerages $1 trillion.
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