Earnings

Macy's Inc. reported higher first-quarter net income and gains in a critical sales metric as it took business from rival department store chains. The company also raised its dividend by 25 percent. Macy's shares closed up 2.5 percent, near a year high....

Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc.'s top executive, R. Neal Black, earned $2.9 million last year, a decrease from the $4 million in compensation Black earned in 2011, the Hampstead-based men's apparel retailer said. Executive compensation for CEO Black, who...

(Repeats with no changes to text) By Krista Hughes and Walter Brandimarte MEXICO CITY/RIO DE JANEIRO, May 19 (Reuters) - Foreign investors flocked back to Brazil in early 2013, prompting the strongest stock market inflows in more than two years, but...

May 20 (Reuters) - Campbell Soup Co reported higher quarterly earnings on Monday, after the company worked to improve its soup products. The world's largest soup maker said net income was $181 million, or 57 cents per share, in the fiscal third quarter...

TOKYO, May 20 (Reuters) - The Nikkei share average is set to extend its record-breaking run on Monday, as further weakness in the yen and signs of an improving U.S. economic outlook bolsters prospects for higher Japanese corporate earnings in the...

* Headline EPS at 321 cents vs 245 cents * Revenue up 11 percent at 31.3 billion rand JOHANNESBURG, May 20 (Reuters) - South African industrial group Barloworld Ltd boosted first-half profit by a third on Thursday, as a solid results in its Russian...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Nikkei share average surged to a fresh 5-1/2 year high on Monday, buoyed by further weakness in the yen and optimism over the growth outlook after the Japanese government raised its assessment of the economy for the first time in two...

Potomac Bancshares Inc. CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — Robert F. Baronner Jr., president and chief executive officer of Potomac Bancshares Inc.,  the one-bank holding company for Bank of Charles Town, announced its quarterly results for the period ending...

By John Kozey May 17 (Reuters) - (The author is a writer for Alpha Now, Thomson Reuters' online home for investment insight. The views expressed are his own. Visitfor more.) Investors are pushing sector rotation toward more cyclical sectors and the...

Buoyed by the billion-dollar box-office blockbusters “Skyfall” and “The Hobbit:  An Unexpected Journey,” MGM Holdings Inc., the parent of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., posted first-quarter net income of $57.4 million. That was more...

* FTSEurofirst 300 down 0.1 percent * Zurich Insurance falls 1.2 percent after Q1 miss * Richemont surges after proposing dividend hike By David Brett LONDON, May 16 (Reuters) - Weak earnings from Zurich Insurance Group kept a lid on European shares...

SINGAPORE, May 16 (Reuters) - Singapore Airlines Ltd , which is expanding in the low-cost segment, reported a weaker-than-expected rise of nearly 13 percent in full-year net income and said it was cutting capacity between April and June in a sluggish...