Unilever, the maker of Skippy peanut butter and Dove soap, reported a 34 percent rise in first-quarter profits.
American International Group Inc. posted a first-quarter loss of $7.81 billion, or $3.09 per share, compared with earnings of $4.13 billion, or $1.58 per share, a year ago.
Bertelsmann AG said its first-quarter net loss narrowed to 3 million euros ($4.6 million) from a loss of 117 million euros a year earlier. Sales fell nearly 4 percent to 4.2 billion euros ($6.5 billion).
Cablevision Systems Corp. reported a first-quarter loss of $31.6 million, or 11 cents per share, compared with a loss of $26.3 million, or 9 cents per share, a year ago. Revenues rose to $1.72 billion from $1.56 billion.
Deutsche Telekom AG said first-quarter profit rose to 750 million euros ($1.16 billion) from 563 million euros a year earlier. Revenue fell 3.1 percent to 15 billion euros ($23.14 billion).
Dynegy Inc. reported a first-quarter loss of $152 million, or 18 cents per share, compared with a profit of $14 million, or 3 cents per share, a year earlier. Revenue rose 53 percent to $774 million.
Liberty Media Corp. said first-quarter net income rose to $5.46 billion from $369 million. Sales rose 11 percent to $2.35 billion.
Nasdaq OMX Group said first-quarter earnings rose to $121.4 million, or 69 cents per share, from $18.3 million, or 14 cents a share, a year earlier. Revenue rose 30 percent to $918.2 million.
Sun-Times Media Group Inc. reported a first-quarter loss of $35.8 million, or 44 cents per share, compared with a loss of $4.8 million, or 6 cents per share, a year earlier. Sales fell 12 percent to $81 million.
Toyota Motor Corp. said quarterly profit fell to 316.8 billion yen ($3 billion) from 440 billion yen a year earlier. Sales rose 3.8 percent to 6.57 trillion yen.
Tribune Co. reported a first-quarter loss before taxes of $30 million, compared with profit of $31 million a year earlier. Sales fell 8 percent to $1.1 billion.
Unilever said first-quarter profits rose to 1.41 billion euros ($2.18 billion) from 1.07 billion euros last year. Sales were little changed at 9.57 billion euros.
Warner Music Group Corp. posted a second-quarter loss of $37 million, or 25 cents per share, compared with a loss of $27 million, or 19 cents per share, a year earlier. Revenue rose 2 percent to $800 million.
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