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Hyundai Motor, South Korea's top automaker, saw its profit jump nearly 50% to a record for the December quarter, driven by new models and robust sales in overseas markets including the United States and China.
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Microsoft Corp is set to report a dip in earnings on Thursday, a year after the launch of its Windows 7 operating system blew away Wall Street estimates, as sales of personal computers lag expectations and Apple Inc's iPad eats away at the fringes of its core market.
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Security software maker Symantec Corp reported better-than-expected profit and authorized a USD 1 billion share buyback program, sending its shares up 3%.
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Nokia is expected to post a third profit fall in a row on Thursday with investors seeking clues on how the handset maker can challenge smartphone powerhouses Apple and Samsung and also recover lost ground at the cheaper end of the market.
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Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc warned it would post a quarterly loss again in the current quarter, as it faces new competition from the Apple Inc iPhone, sending its shares down almost 6%.
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Siemens, Europe's biggest engineering conglomerate, beat profit forecasts due to robust demand in fast-growing emerging economies and said signs for future sales were strong.
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US Airways Group and United Continental Holdings posted better-than-expected results, helped by an improvement in business travel and sending their shares higher.
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Wall Street expects Boeing Co to report a smaller quarterly profit on Wednesday on slipping commercial aircraft deliveries, while investors will be on alert for more signs of recovery and clues to the outlook for the long-delayed 787 Dreamliner.
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Sahaviriya Steel Industries Pcl, Thailand's top hot-rolled steel coil maker, expects record profits this year, helped by a one-off gain of about USD 300 million from its purchase of a steel plant in Britain.
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German economic bellwether Siemens looks set to improve the tone of its full year guidance on Tuesday on the back of higher first-quarter earnings, thanks to a broadening footprint in emerging markets.
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Shares of World Wrestling Entertainment fell 15% on Monday after the sports entertainer forecast fourth-quarter earnings far below Wall Street estimates.
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American Express Co said fourth-quarter revenue grew 13% from a year earlier, as consumer spending increased and the company earned more from fees.
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McDonald's Corp reported weaker-than-expected December sales at established US and European restaurants as poor weather hurt demand, and said its food costs would rise in 2011.
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Bank of America Corp, the largest US bank, reported a second straight quarterly loss after writing down the value of its limping mortgage business.
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Standard Chartered, the British emerging markets-focused bank, plans to continue hiring aggressively in Asia despite rising costs and thinning margins, it said on Friday, as it believes growth in the region will outpace that of the rest of the world.
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LG Display, the world's No.2 LCD flat screen maker, posted its first quarterly loss in seven quarters, hit by a USD 289 million price fixing fine and as panel prices plunged on weak demand from television makers.
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Stocks fell on Thursday as lackluster tech and materials earnings failed to live up to heightened expectations, threatening to short-circuit a seven-week run.
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European equity investors take note: the emerging markets bet which paid off so handsomely last year may have run its course for the time being.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc posted a 53% decline in fourth-quarter profit as trading revenue tumbled, dashing hopes that the Wall Street bank had bucked a tough trading climate in debt markets.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc posted a 53% decline in quarterly profit on Wednesday, in part reflecting lower results in fixed-income trading.
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Software company iGate, which recently sealed a USD 1.2 billion deal to acquire a majority stake in Patni Computer Systems, reported quarterly results that topped Wall Street expectations, helped by strong margins.
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International Business Machines Corp's stronger-than-expected quarterly profit and a pick-up in technology services contracts raised hopes that global companies were becoming confident enough to spend more on technology.
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The health of Apple chief executive Steve Jobs was set to overshadow quarterly sales numbers on Tuesday from the consumer electronics powerhouse, whose iPhone and iPad excited holiday shoppers.
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Citigroup Inc posted a USD 1.3 billion quarterly profit on Tuesday, as the third-largest US bank rounded off a year of recovery from the financial crisis.
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Citigroup Inc, the bank that took USD 45 billion in US bailout funds during the financial crisis, is widely expected to report its fourth consecutive quarterly profit on Tuesday, signaling to investors that it has largely completed its recovery.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co reported fourth-quarter earnings jumped, helped by narrowing losses on bad loans.
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US investment bank earnings were likely lackluster in the fourth quarter as government debt jitters globally kept bond trading clients on the sidelines.
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Intel Corp cheered investors with a strong quarterly revenue forecast and better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings as sales to corporations grew.
