April 27: ICICI Bank surges 4% as Q4 beats forecast
April 27: ICICI Bank surges 4% as Q4 beats forecast
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, chairman and managing director of Biocon Ltd., speaks during a news conference in Bangalore
Biocon limited has moved higher by 3.5% at Rs 238 after reporting better-than-expected net profit of Rs 98 crore for the quarter ended March 2012, against Rs 100 crore in the corresponding quarter of previous fiscal
Commenting on the results, chairman and managing director Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw stated "The Company has delivered particularly strong growth in research services and branded formulations business verticals. The company is confident to make significant progress across all business, despite of the uncertainty in global economics."
A visitor looks at Honda Motor's cars at the company showroom
Honda Motor Co posted a 142.3% jump in quarterly operating profit on Friday as production recovered from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last year
Operating profit for the January-March fourth-quarter was 111.98 billion yen, slightly lagging an average estimate of 123.2 billion yen in a survey of 23 analysts by Thomson Reuters
Honda suffered the most from the disasters in Japan and Thailand last year, and only re-started work at its Thai car plant at the end of March after a six-month hiatus
A customer tries Samsung Electronics' Galaxy smartphone at a store in Seoul
Samsung Electronics Co, the world's top technology firm by revenue, reported a record quarterly profit on Friday, as its Galaxy smartphones and Note phone/tablet helped it win market share from Nokia and as it outmuscled Japanese rivals in TVs and memory chips
The South Korean firm expected its solid earnings momentum to continue in the second quarter, driven by the release of new mobile products, a pick-up in demand for computers and rebounding memory chip prices
An employee counts money in a bank in Sarajevo
Standard & Poor's on Thursday cut its credit rating on Spain by two notches, citing expectations the government finances will deteriorate even more than previously thought as a result of a contracting economy and an ailing banking sector
The ratings agency, which downgraded Spain to BBB-plus from A, also put a negative outlook on the credit and said Spain's situation could deteriorate further unless ambitious measures were taken at European level
"We think risks are rising to fiscal performance and flexibility, and to the sovereign debt burden, particularly in light of the increased contingent liabilities that could materialize on the government's balance sheet," S&P said in a statement
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