Earnings Report

The health insurer's revenue was $15.48 billion, or $15.51 billion adjusted.

Volkswagen says it is sticking with its sales and profit targets for the year despite the difficulties getting new vehicles through emissions tests that made sales slump in September.

Struggling GE is still struggling.

Nintendo Co., the Japanese video-game maker behind the Super Mario and Pokemon franchises, has recorded a 12 percent gain in its profit in July-September on the back of healthy Switch console sales.

Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co. is reporting a 21 percent jump in its profit in the last quarter on cost cuts and healthy motorcycle sales.

Japanese electronics and entertainment company Sony Corp. has recorded a 32 percent rise in fiscal second quarter profit on its healthy video game and financial services businesses.

Energy giant BP says third-quarter earnings more than doubled as it reaped the benefits of higher oil prices and streamlined operations.

BP will fund its purchase of BHP Billiton assets from available cash.

Sony raised its annual profit forecast to $7.7 billion.

Apple’s next major source of revenue isn’t a gadget, according to one Wall Street firm.

Shares in HSBC are rallying after Europe's biggest bank posted a 32 percent increase in third-quarter earnings.

The bank's reported pretax profit was $5.9 billion in the September quarter, up from $4.6 billion in the same period a year earlier

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Friday: Amazon Inc., down $139.36 to $1,642.81

U.S. stocks declined broadly in early trading Friday, erasing the market's gains from a strong rally a day earlier and putting major indexes back into the red for the year.

The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 9:35 a.m.