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North America boosts Ford in 4Q (AP)
AP - Ford has shown it can make money even with U.S. car sales at depressed levels. Now it needs to show it can manage a myriad of challenges outside its home region.
Today's Top Stock Market Headlines
- Altria 4Q profit falls 9 pct, CEO to retire (AP) AP - Marlboro maker Altria Group Inc. said Friday that its fourth-quarter profit fell about 9 percent on lease, legal and restructuring charges even as higher prices and gains from its smokeless tobacco products helped bolster its sales.
- As US slows, P&G turns to developing markets (AP) AP - Emerging markets are playing a bigger role in Procter & Gamble Co.'s growth, in another sign that U.S. companies are courting new customers overseas as American shoppers get tapped out.
- Ford Motor Co.'s 2011 profits at a glance (AP) AP - Ford Motor Co.'s 2011 profits at a glance
- Chevron's 4Q profit drop highlights hurdles ahead (AP) AP - Satisfying the world's growing energy appetite isn't easy.
- Correction: Earns-Starbucks story (AP) AP - The Associated Press, relying on information supplied by a company executive, erroneously reported Jan. 26 that Starbucks Corp. in its fiscal first quarter had its biggest quarterly revenue gain since 2007. It was the company's biggest quarterly revenue gain since the fourth-quarter of 2010.
