Earnings Report

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Amgen Inc. cruised to a 27 percent jump in fourth-quarter profit and beat Wall Street expectations, due to higher sales of nearly all its medicines, tight cost controls and a tax benefit.

Hyundai Motor Co. suffered a drop in quarterly earnings and is forecasting weak sales growth this year.

The price of AbbVie shares dipped early Friday after the drugmaker delivered what some analysts saw as a conservative forecast for 2015 earnings growth.

CVS Health will raise its quarterly shareholder payout by 27 percent, and the nation's second-largest drugstore chain also said Tuesday that it expects another year of earnings growth in 2015.

All times are Eastern MONDAY, Nov. 24 BERLIN — Germany's Ifo institute releases its monthly business confidence index, a key indicator for Europe's biggest economy.

Best Buy says its revenue edged up in the third quarter, a positive sign for the electronics retailer as the holiday season kicks off.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Halliburton Co., down $5.85 to $49.23 The oilfield services company is buying rival Baker Hughes Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal worth $34.6 billion as oil prices tumble.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Halliburton Co., up $1.29 to $55.08 The oilfield drilling and services company and its rival Baker Hughes Inc. are discussing a possible merger deal.

Shares of Orexigen Therapeutics Inc. jumped Monday after the company said a European Union review of its weight loss drug Contrave, which was approved in the U.S. in September, is progressing on schedule.

Electric car maker Tesla Motors set a quarterly record for deliveries of its Model S sedan, but its losses mounted due to increased engineering costs.

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG has posted a 45 percent rise in net profit in the third quarter, boosted by strong sales of new products such as Gilenya for multiple sclerosis and the leukemia drug Tasigna.

Amgen announced Monday that its earnings fell in the third quarter on charges from an ongoing restructuring effort, but the biotech drugmaker's adjusted results still surpassed Wall Street.

Ford's new aluminum-sided F-150 will be a lot lighter and more efficient when it goes on sale later this year.

General Motors says its third-quarter profit nearly doubled as strong earnings in North America and China outweighed struggles in Europe and South America.

Philip Morris International's third-quarter profit dropped 8 percent as cigarette sales fell in the overseas markets that it serves and it was hurt by foreign exchange rates for the U.S. dollar.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE PepsiCo Inc., up $1.08 to $94.65 The soda and snack maker's stock extended its gains after it reported a rise in third-quarter profit earlier this week.

Best Buy Co. (BBY) on Tuesday reported fiscal second-quarter earnings of $146 million.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) on Thursday eked out a 0.6 percent profit increase in its fiscal second quarter.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE SeaWorld Entertainment Inc., down $9.25 to $18.90 The theme park and entertainment company reported worse-than-expected quarterly financial results and cut its full-year guidance.