Corporate profits

Ericsson beats quarterly core profit estimates, shrugs off tariffs

2025-10-14T06:56:46.000Z
In an essay, the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre describes two fishing crews to show the difference between profit-maximising and the pursuit of excellence.

Why is modern commerce corrosive?

2025-06-10T21:00:00.000Z
Profits plunged 17.8 per cent in August from a year earlier following a 4.1 per cent increase in July.

China’s industrial profits suffer biggest slump this year, adds to economic woes

2024-09-27T11:34:08.000Z
Voting 7-2, the justices said Congress has the constitutional power to tax people and companies on their share of undistributed corporate income.

Supreme Court upholds US tax on foreign business income

2024-06-20T15:15:00.000Z
The Detroit automaker expects an annual core profit of between US$10 billion and US$12 billion.

Ford reaffirms annual core profit outlook

2024-03-26T13:58:16.000Z
Rolls-Royce acknowledges the downtime on the XWB-97 engine is greater than expected but denies suggestions that the performance level equates to being “defective”.

Emirates tells Rolls-Royce: Go back to basics, put products first

2023-11-29T13:37:51.000Z
The supermarket group, which has a near 28 per cent share of Britain’s grocery market, expects a year to end-February 2024 retail adjusted operating profit of £2.75 billion (S$4.66 billion) versus the £2.49 billion made in 2022/23.

Britain's Tesco raises profit outlook after strong Christmas sales

2024-01-11T08:37:28.000Z
The results come even as the Japanese investment group managed to pull off the long-anticipated IPO of chip designer Arm, although it did not record proceeds from that as earnings as Arm remains a subsidiary.

SoftBank books US$5.2 billion quarterly loss as investments and weak yen bite

2023-11-09T06:59:37.000Z
The company reported a profit of US$3.2 billion, or US$3.39 per share, for the three months ended Sept 30, compared with US$2.5 billion, or US$2.58 per share, a year earlier.

Mastercard Q3 profit rises

2023-10-26T12:24:03.000Z
Profit attributable to DP World’s owners in the six months to June was down 9.7 per cent at US$651 million from a year earlier, when the port operator posted record profit of US$721 million.

Dubai's DP World posts 10% fall in H1 profit, flags uncertain trade outlook

2023-08-17T06:53:40.000Z