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IBM posted second-quarter revenue of $25.8 billion and net earnings of $4.1 billion as the technology and consulting company benefited from strong demand for software services but was hit by currency effects.
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Bank of America Corp said it plans to slash costs by USD 3 billion annually in commercial lending, investment banking and wealth management, becoming the latest big bank to take aim at expenses in a sluggish economy.
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US stocks rose on Tuesday after Coca-Cola and Goldman Sachs joined the growing roster of S&P companies that beat profit forecasts and as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke left the door open to more stimulus.
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Yahoo Inc, looking to revive its fortunes with Monday's hiring of a new chief executive from Google Inc, reported flat net revenue and a slight decline in profit during the second quarter.
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Intel Corp posted second-quarter revenue of $13.5 billion and net earnings of $2.8 billion, or 54 cents a share, as the personal computer industry wrestles with troubled economies and consumers shift toward tablets.
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Coca-Cola Co reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday, helped by increased sales volume both at home and abroad.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc earnings fell 4 percent in the second quarter compared with a year ago due to a sharp decline in the value of its investments and a slowdown in dealmaking activity.
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Barnes & Noble Inc reported lower-than-expected quarterly sales as its Nook e-reader business was hurt by discounts as it competes with Amazon.com's Kindle franchise.
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Research In Motion Ltd has hired bankers for a far-reaching strategic review and to look for partnerships as the BlackBerry-maker warned it would likely report a shock fiscal first-quarter operating loss.
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Leading computer maker Dell today said its net profit declined by nearly 33% to USD 635 million in the first quarter of 2012-13 ended April, 2012, impacted by flat performance in the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region, including India.
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Vodafone lowered a medium-term target for revenue growth on Tuesday as consumers in southern Europe slashed spending and regulators upped the pressure on the world's largest mobile operator.
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Sony reported a record Y457bn full-year net loss - its fifth deficit in as many years - but said it expected restructuring efforts to return it to profit this year.
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HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, beat expectations with an underlying profit of almost USD 7 billion in the first quarter thanks to a rebound in investment banking income and a fall in US bad debts.
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Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit, but the IT services provider lowered its full-year forecast on low demand
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Visa Inc , the world's largest credit and debit-card network, beat analysts estimates with a 23% increase in adjusted earnings as people spent more with cards.
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UBS said first-quarter profit more than halved, dragged down by a 1.16 billion Swiss franc hit to profit due to charges on its own debt.
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Standard Chartered said on Wednesday its first-quarter income grew less than its previous 10% target, as the strength of the US dollar against Asian currencies impacted income growth.
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Zynga Inc posted first-quarter revenue of USD 321 million, beating Wall Street expectations on the back of strong performances from new titles.
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Analysts may be optimistic about Amazon.com's growth prospects, but with this week's blowout earnings from Apple, and Amazon's own lofty share price to live up to, some traders are starting to hedge their bets.
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South Korea's LG Electronics Inc, the world's No.2 TV manufacturer and fifth-biggest mobile maker, more than trebled its quarterly profit as TV sales picked up and its handset business swung to a profit.
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AT&T, the largest US telecommunications group by revenues, reported solid first-quarter earnings driven by smartphone sales and higher mobile data revenues, but mobile subscriber growth slowed, reflecting increasing market saturation.
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Quarterly profits at 3M, one of the US's biggest industrial conglomerates, exceeded Wall Street forecasts as strong growth in Latin America and the US more than offset declining sales in Asia and flat demand in Europe.
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Facebook Inc generated more than USD 1 billion in revenue during the first quarter, according to an updated filing for the social network's initial public offering.
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South Korean steelmaker POSCO, backed by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, posted a 54% drop in first-quarter profit because of slack demand, lower product prices and higher raw-material costs.
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American Express Co posted a strong first-quarter profit, as its customers spent more on their credit cards while redeeming fewer rewards, and the company said it will look to boost its digital offerings.
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The outsize influence of Apple on both the technology sector and the entire stock market was thrown into sharp relief when the iPad maker's shares fell 4.1 percent on Monday.
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EBay Inc reported better-than-expected increases in quarterly sales and profit on Wednesday, driven by growth in the e-commerce company's Marketplace and PayPal businesses.
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IBM posted first-quarter revenue of USD 24.7 billion and net earnings of USD 3.1 billion as the technology and consulting company benefited from strong demand for software services.
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Yahoo Inc said it earned net income of USD 286 million, or 23 cents a share, in the first quarter.
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Coca-Cola Co posted higher-than-expected quarterly results after the world's largest soft drink maker sold more beverages, even in developed markets with economic challenges, fueling hopes that conditions are improving.
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Earnings news from the likes of Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs and JandJ should help guide stocks Tuesday, but traders will most intently be watching the trading activity in Apple.
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Google Inc announced a stock split designed to preserve the control of co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin over the No. 1 Web search engine, as it posted revenue in line with estimates.
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Google Inc reported net income of $ 2.89 billion, or $ 8.75 per share, in the first quarter and announced a proposal to effectively implement a 2-for-1 stock split.
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Samsung Electronics, the world's top technology firm by revenue, will report strong first-quarter profit of around USD 4.5 billion on Friday on soaring sales.
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HSBC Holdings is expected to report the West's biggest banking profit for last year, fuelled by the East, while its rivals are struggling with faltering European and US growth.
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Bailed-out insurer American International Group reported a USD 19.8 billion profit for the fourth quarter, after an accounting change that allowed the company to record an enormous one-time benefit.
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State-owned Royal Bank of Scotland posted a fourth quarter loss of nearly 2 billion pounds, hurt by writedowns on assets and restructuring costs, although it still paid out almost 1 billion pounds in bonuses to staff in 2011.
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Hewlett-Packard Co on Wednesday reported a 7 percent decline in quarterly revenue that was also slightly below than Wall Street expectations.
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Dell Inc reported revenue that was slightly higher than Wall Street expectations, partly due to strength in its enterprise business.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc's fourth-quarter profit came in just short of Wall Street's expectations, sending its shares down 2.6%, as it cut prices to win over U.S. shoppers during the holiday season.
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Barclays key investment bank arm ended 2011 with its worst quarter for three years as the euro zone debt crisis hit bond trading, dragging the British bank's annual profit down on the year before.
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Thomson Reuters Corp reported a fourth-quarter loss on Thursday after taking a USD 3 billion non-cash goodwill impairment charge to account for the decline in its financial services business.
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Aluminum products producer Novelis cut its fiscal-year earnings estimate for the second time, citing lower shipments because of soft demand in Europe and weakness in its electronics business in Asia.
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Coca-Cola Co reported better-than-expected quarterly results and announced a new cost-savings program on Tuesday, helping to send shares in the world's top soft drinks maker up 1% in premarket trading.
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Posco, the world's number three steelmaker, reported a smaller-than-expected 33% gain in quarterly operating profit, as it was unable to fully pass on soaring raw material costs to customers due to a weak global economy and demand.
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Starbucks Corp reported a quarterly profit that topped Wall Street's view, but its shares fell as investors in the world's biggest coffee chain focused on softness in Europe rather than strength in the United States.
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Nokia Oyj reported a 73% fall in fourth-quarter earnings as sales of its new Windows Phones failed to dent the dominance of Apple Inc's iPhone or compensate for diving sales of its own old smartphones.
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AT&T Inc posted a massive quarterly loss due to a break-up fee for its failed T-Mobile USA merger and other charges on top of costly subsidies for smartphones such as Apple Inc's popular iPhone, sending its shares down more than 2 percent .
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc's profit fell 56% in the fourth quarter, but easily beat analysts' estimates during a weak period for investment banking revenue.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co's fourth-quarter earnings fell 23%, in line with Wall Street expectations, as the European debt crisis depressed trading and corporate deal-making.
