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Kraft Foods Inc.'s profit declined as a large gain in the year-earlier quarter skewed results, but revenue rose and margins improved as the world's second-largest packaged food company raised prices and cut costs enough to offset most commodity inflation.

At Kraft, Prices Blunt Costs Paul Ziobro 2011

Cipla's earnings in the year-earlier period included 950 million rupees from the sale of its emergency contraceptive brand, i-pill, to Piramal Healthcare Ltd. Excluding the one-time gain, pre-tax profit was little changed at 2.51 billion rupees compared with 2.53 billion rupees.

Cipla Net Profit Falls 22% Rumman Ahmed 2011

A year later, the roles were reversed in the two schools and the researchers compared each group's data against the year-earlier results.

Schooling Kids to Wash Hands Cuts Sick Days Ann Lukits 2011

Total imports of iron ore by China rose to 177.3 million tons in the quarter, up 10% from the year-earlier period.

Vale More Than Quadruples Net Profit Diana Kinch 2011

Mortgage delinquencies, while still down from their year-earlier levels, have now edged up in two consecutive quarters after hitting a plateau last year, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Home-Loan Delinquencies Rise Again Nick Timiraos 2011

For the year-earlier second quarter, Alpha had earnings $38.8 million, or 32 cents a share.

Alpha Natural Resources Posts Loss Kris Maher 2011

In the second quarter, it posted a loss of $94.5 million, compared with a year-earlier loss of $92.4 million.

Fortress Earnings Disappoint Amy Or 2011

In the Eastern U.S., Alpha's costs were $70.84 a ton, compared with $60.38 a ton in the year-earlier period for Alpha's operations.

Alpha Natural Resources Posts Loss Kris Maher 2011

Its gross-profit margin slipped 180 basis points to 19.1% from 20.9% in the year-earlier period.

CVS Profit at High End of Expectations Maxwell Murphy 2011

Forty governors have recommended spending more in the 2012 fiscal year, which starts in July, than in the year-earlier period.

States See Uptick in Revenue, Costs Conor Dougherty 2011