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General Electric Co reported a 21.6% rise in profit, topping estimates, boosted by strong demand outside the United States for its heavy equipment including jet engines and electric turbines.
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Heavy machinery maker Caterpillar Inc disappointed Wall Street with a second-quarter earnings miss on Friday, hurt by higher costs, and its shares fell 5.5%, dragging down the US stock market.
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POSCO reported a 17% annual fall in quarterly operating profit, hurt by high raw material costs and cheaper products from Japanese rivals after the March 11 earthquake.
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Microsoft Corp smashed Wall Street's earnings estimates once more, helped by strong sales of its Office software and Xbox game console, but its shares held steady on concerns about soft PC sales reducing demand for its flagship Windows product.
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Flash memory supplier SanDisk Corp reported higher-than-expected results for the second quarter on Thursday, driven by cost cutting and strong demand in emerging markets.
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AT&T Inc's second-quarter profit and revenue beat Wall Street estimates as it added more subscribers than expected despite losing exclusive US rights to sell Apple Inc iPhone.
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The New York Times reported 224,000 digital subscribers in the second quarter to its flagship website, smartphone and tablet applications, up from more than 100,000 in April.
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Nokia Oyj, the world's largest phone maker by volume, posted better-than-expected quarterly profit thanks to a major royalty boost from settling a patent dispute with Apple.
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Back-office firm WNS Holdings posted first-quarter results above market estimates, helped by higher volumes, and narrowed its full-year revenue forecast range. Keshav Murugesh, CEO of WNS, in an interview with CNBC-TV18's Kritika Saxena, gave his perspective of the first quarter performance and divulged future plans.
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Morgan Stanley beats Q2 expectations
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PepsiCo tempers 2011 outlook on economy
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Apple Inc crushed Wall Street's expectations, driving its shares up more than 7% to record highs.
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Yahoo Inc plugged some of the holes that were weakening its Internet search business in the second quarter, but revealed new challenges that hurt its display advertising business.
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Motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson Inc reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit as a recovering US economy drove demand, and it raised its forecast for full-year shipments.
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Goldman Sach Group Inc rattled investors with earnings that fell far short of analysts' estimates because of sharp declines in trading revenue.
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Bank of America Corp reported the biggest quarterly loss in its history, USD 8.8 billion, after more than USD 20 billion of charges linked to mortgages.
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Technology giant IBM has reported a 8.28% rise in net income to USD 3.66 billion for the April-June quarter of 2011, driven by the robust performance of all major product categories such as software, services and hardware.
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Philips on Monday made a surprise writedown on acquisitions that dragged the group to a 1.3 billion euro (USD 1.8 billion) second-quarter net loss, just weeks after warning on profits at two key divisions.
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Citigroup Inc's second-quarter profit jumped 24% as the bank lost less money than expected on bad US loans.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co reported higher second-quarter profits, boosted by lower costs for bad loans.
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Sony Corp forecast a lower-than-expected net profit for this year as the consumer electronics and entertainment conglomerate battles the after-effects of the disastrous March earthquake and a series of network security breaches.
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Vodafone, the world's largest mobile operator by revenue, issued a bullish outlook for 2012 on Tuesday after posting resilient full-year results boosted by customers upgrading to smartphones.
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Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), Southeast Asia's biggest telecoms firm, posted a 2.3% fall in quarterly profit due to a steep fall in contribution from its Indian unit Bharti Airtel and currency losses.
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ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker, forecast strong prices and shipments that would propel earnings to a post-crisis high in the second quarter following a sharp rebound at the start of the year.
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Toyota Motor Corp posted a steeper-than-expected decline in quarterly profits on Wednesday after Japan's biggest quake on record hit production, but predicted output would begin recovering as much as two months earlier than it had expected.
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Profits at HSBC Holdings fell 14% from a year ago as a jump in costs offset a fall in bad debts at Europe's biggest bank, due to outline a drastic shake-up of its business this week.
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Vedanta has announced its FY11 results. The company's FY11 profit was up at USD 770 million versus USD 602.3 million, year-on-year, YoY.
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Time Warner Inc posted a decline in first quarter profit, but revenue rose a better-than-expected 6% alongside a surge in advertising sales at its cable TV networks.
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Echoing rivals Volkswagen and Daimler, BMW is all set to announce its eye-popping sales figures in China, where a growing army of super-rich is fuelling demand for premium items such as Gucci handbags and Rolls-Royce cars.
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US drugmaker Pfizer Inc reported quarterly results roughly in line with expectations and said it expects by the second half of the year to complete its review of which company businesses are appropriate to keep.
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Cognizant has announced first quarter results. The company's Q1 net revenue were up 4.6% at USD 1.37 billion, quarter-on-quarter, QoQ.
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc will report a significantly lower first-quarter profit, as one of the worst quarters ever for global catastrophes weighed on the company's insurance businesses, Chief Executive Warren Buffett said on Saturday.
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Shares of Research In Motion Ltd fell 12% in pre-market trade on Friday, a day after the Blackberry maker slashed its first-quarter outlook as product delays hurt sales in the United States and Latin America.
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HTC Corp, the world's No.5 smartphone maker, expects its revenue to set a record in the second quarter, building on the first quarter record on robust demand in the growing smartphone market.
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PepsiCo Inc reported first-quarter earnings that were slightly ahead of Wall Street expectations, helped by higher sales and prices of snacks and drinks, and warned that more price increases are on the horizon.
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Samsung Electronics Co, the world's top memory chip maker, reported its weakest quarterly profit in almost two years and warned of challenging business conditions.
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German business software maker SAP's first quarter earnings fell short of results from its rivals and market expectations, despite double-digit growth in sales and operating profit.
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Royal Dutch Shell posted a 22% rise in first-quarter profit, thanks to higher oil prices and fatter refining margins.
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Honda Motor Co reported a 52% fall in quarterly operating profit and refrained from providing an outlook for the new business year as it struggles to measure the speed of its recovery after last month's earthquake in Japan.
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South Korea's Hyundai Motor reported a 47% jump in quarterly net profit, driven by strong demand for its new models as its Japanese rivals grapple with the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
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Nippon Steel Corp, the world's No.4 steelmaker, reported a quarterly net loss, hit by earthquake-related losses, and did not give a forecast for the current financial year due to an uncertain outlook for demand.
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General Electric Co sees its best earnings growth prospects in a decade as the global economic recovery drives demand for the heavy energy and aviation equipment it makes, top executives said.
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BP Plc reported a 2% drop in first-quarter profit, falling short of analysts' forecasts as the lingering effects of the oil spill frustrated Chief Executive Bob Dudley's attempts to turn around the oil major.
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Ericsson, the world's biggest mobile network gear maker, posted core profit well ahead of expectation on Wednesday thanks to surging sales at its key network unit.
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BP Plc reported a 2% drop in first-quarter profits, falling short of analysts' forecasts, as the lingering effects of the oil spill frustrated Chief Executive Bob Dudley's attempts to turn around the oil giant.
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British bank Barclays posted a 9% fall in first-quarter profit, missing forecasts, after it took a hit on the value of its own debt and income at its key investment banking arm dipped.
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Coca-Cola Co's quarterly profit missed Wall Street estimates by a penny, hurt by the Japan earthquake and the timing of marketing expenses, and its shares fell 1.7 percent in premarket trading.
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Canon Inc reported a 5% fall in quarterly operating profit and cut its annual outlook to below market expectations as it copes with the effects of Japan's earthquake, which has hit suppliers and hobbled production.
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Emaar Properties, UAE's biggest developer by market value, posted a 45 percent drop in first-quarter net profit, missing analysts forecasts, as revenue dipped and losses from associate firms rose.
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Morgan Stanley's first-quarter profit fell less than many analysts had forecast thanks to stronger-than-expected fixed-income trading results.
