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The firm also announced Monday that it would expand its capital return program to USD 200 billion from a previously announced USD 130 billion.
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The result comes as the world's biggest camera maker seeks growth opportunities, in part to offset a drop in demand for compacts as consumers increasingly rely on smartphone cameras
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Google shares still managed to trade higher by two percent in after-hours trading to USG558.06. The earnings report comes with Google facing a formal antitrust challenge from the European Union, which alleges it abused its dominance in search to promote its own services.
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Write-downs linked to a corruption scandal amounted to 6.19 billion reais (about USD 2 billion), while remaining losses came from cost overruns at refineries and oil price pressures.
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The second-largest US wireless carrier posted net income of USD 3.2 billion, or 61 cents per share, in the first quarter ended March 31, compared with USD 3.65 billion, or 70 cents per share, in the year-ago quarter.
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Hurt by an accounting scandal and a price war sparked by the march of discount groups Aldi and Lidl, the supermarket wrote down the value of its business by 7 billion pounds to reflect restructuring charges and the lower sales its stores were making.
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The trade publication Beverage Digest reported that Coca-Cola sales volume dipped 1.1 percent in 2014, and Diet Coke sales slid a painful 6.6 percent
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The tech giant said Tuesday that its first-quarter adjusted earnings came in at 15 cents per share on USD 1.04 billion in revenue.
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The closely watched parent-only measure refers to earnings from steel business, and excludes profit from affiliates.
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Net income fell slightly to USD 2.33 billion, or USD 2.35 per share, for the quarter ended March 31, from USD 2.38 billion, or USD 2.29 per share a year earlier.
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The Anglo-Dutch maker of Dove soap, Lipton tea and Ben & Jerry's ice cream cited an improvement in China and an earlier Easter.
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The company, which is in the midst of a major business transformation push, reported adjusted first-quarter earnings per share of 28 cents on revenue of USD 5.82 billion.
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The company also reported higher-than-expected quarterly profit and revenue on Thursday, helped by growth in outsourcing revenue from North American clients.
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The company, controlled by NRI billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, had reported USD 1.2 billion net loss in the October-December quarter of the last year, it said in a statement.
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Switzerland's biggest bank said on Tuesday net profit for the fourth quarter of 2014 was 963 million Swiss francs (1.04 billion USD), exceeding the 937 million francs analysts had forecast in a Reuters poll.
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The Internet company said on Thursday that recently launched products and partnerships have set the stage for it to expand its audience.
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Revenues rose by 7 percent to USD 2.28 billion from USD 2.13 billion during the same period. Genpact generated USD 271.8 million cash from operations in 2014 and USD 93 million in the fourth quarter.
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A steady recovery in Europe helped Vodafone stem the rate of sales decline in its third quarter, putting the world's second-biggest mobile operator in touching distance of overall revenue growth once again.
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The yen's decline has been a boon for Toyota, which exports roughly half of its vehicles produced in Japan.
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Japan's Sony Corp said its net loss for 2014 was likely less than previously forecast as cost cuts and higher-than-expected sales of its image sensors and PlayStation video game consoles helped lift its third-quarter profit.
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Wall Street had expected Google to report earnings of USD 7.11 per share on revenue of USD 18.46 billion, according to a consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters.
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Amazon issued fourth-quarter earnings of 45 cents a share, down from 51 cents per share a year ago, but soaring past expectations of 17 cents.
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Deutsche had originally hoped to clear the decks of legal issues in 2014 but has guided that 2015 will likely be the year instead when the majority of investigations are concluded.
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Nokia, which ranks third in the global network gear market after Ericsson and Huawei said its equipment unit's core operating profit rose to 470 million euros (USD 530 million) in the fourth quarter, or 14 percent of sales, from 397 million euros in the previous quarter.
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The semiconductor division was a bright spot as Samsung posted fourth-quarter operating profit of 5.3 trillion won (USD 4.88 billion), in line with the 5.2 trillion won profit the firm guided for earlier this month.
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Facebook shares fell about 2 percent in after-hours trading on Wednesday, after the company beat Wall Street's fourth-quarter revenue target and discussed aggressive 2015 spending plans. The stock has fallen 7.6 percent since late October, when it first outlined these plans.
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The consumer-technology supplier beat on both the top and bottom lines in releasing results after Tuesday's close, with its shares rising in extended-hours trading.
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Of the 95 S&P 500 companies that reported fourth-quarter earnings as of Monday morning, 71.6 percent beat estimates, 9.5 percent met expectations and 18.9 percent missed, according to David Aurelio, a research analyst at Thomson Reuters.
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Microsoft's shares dipped lower after her comments, dropping to around USD 45.20 in after-hours trading, about 3.8 percent below their closing price on Nasdaq.
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South Korea's largest automaker said yesterday its October-December net income dropped 22 percent from a year earlier to 1.66 trillion won (USD 1.53 billion). The median expectation of analysts surveyed by financial data provider FactSet was a 2 trillion won profit.
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US-based outsourcing solutions firm IGATE today reported a 14.8 percent growth in net profit at USD 38 million for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2014, helped by deals in industry utility-solutions.
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Investors have been carefully watching how Oracle beefs up its "cloud" divisions, which deliver software over the Internet, as a gauge for how well it can fight off competition from software companies such as Salesforce.com Inc.
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The London-based miner, which has most of its assets in India, said earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation fell to USD 2.1 billion in the six months ended September 30 from USD 2.21 billion a year earlier.
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Operating profit at Japan's fourth-biggest automaker fell 14 percent to 39.6 billion yen (USD 346.55 million) in the second quarter, far short of the 47.1 billion yen mean estimate of 12 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S, also hit by a tough market in Southeast Asia.
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The Asia-focused bank also said it will target a further $400 million in cost reductions for 2015, as it reshapes itself to combat a downturn in emerging markets which had previously been a tremendous engine of growth - driving it to ten straight years of record profits before 2013.
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On Thursday, Google reported weakening growth in ad volumes in the third quarter, fanning worries on Wall Street about the Internet company's efforts to adapt its business to a mobile landscape.
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The New Jersey-headquartered company had posted a net profit of USD 31.9 million in the year-ago period, it said in a statement.
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The aluminum company traditionally has been one of the first S&P 500 companies to report quarterly results, and some see it as a bellwether for the broader US economy because it supplies major industries such as auto and airplane manufacturing.
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Total revenues of the company rose 15 percent to Rs 334.8 crore for the reported period as compared to Rs 290.9 crore last time.
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BHP Billiton on Tuesday said it will create a new independent company by spinning off some of its aluminium, coal, manganese, nickel and silver assets.
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The company said global sales volumes rose 1 percent in the quarter. Volumes in North America fell 1 percent, while those in Europe grew just 1 percent as consumer spending remained subdued.
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Coca Cola posted 8 per cent volume growth in the October-December quarter in India but its business in the country was slower during 2013 than in recent years amidst slowing economic environment.
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Southeast Asia's largest telecommunications operator posted a net profit for the October-December quarter of SUSD 872 million, beating an average forecast of USD 857 million by five analysts polled by Reuters.
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Lenovo reported net income for the period grew to USD 265.3 million from USD 204.9 million a year earlier, well above a USD 247.2 million consensus forecast on Thomson Reuters Starmine SmartEstimate.
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The company reported revenue of USD 11.2 billion in its second fiscal quarter, down from USD 12.1 billion a year earlier. Wall Street on average expected Cisco to report of USD 11.03 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
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Cisco warned on November 13 that revenue would decline as much as 10 percent in its second fiscal quarter ended in January and that it would not resume growth for several quarters.
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The poor showing triggered an early drop in GM's stock price by as much as 2.5 percent, before it recovered to gain 0.2 percent to USD 35.31 in afternoon trading.
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Investors were not convinced, driving down Twitter's shares 21 percent in premarket trading a day after the company reported its slowest pace of user growth in recent history.
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Tech major Cognizant has come out with its numbers for Q4 of 2013. The results have managed to beat street estimates. Even, Cognizant's guidance for the current quarter and the whole of 2014 is quite strong. Kritika Saxena gets us the highlights from Cognizant's earnings.
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The company forecast sales of USD 42 billion to USD 44 billion this quarter, which investors expect to be brisker than usual because of its recently sealed deal to sell iPhones through China Mobile Ltd, the country's No. 1 carrier. Wall Street is expecting USD 46 billion, on average.
