April 19- Honeywell International Inc posted a bigger-than-expected rise in quarterly profit on cost cuts and raised the lower end of its 2013 earnings forecast, putting its stock on pace for its biggest single-day rise in nine months. Shares of Honeywell were up 4 percent at $74.10 in early afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday.
*First-quarter earnings $1.21/ share vs est $1.14. April 19- Honeywell International Inc reported a first-quarter profit above analysts' expectations and raised the lower end of its full-year earnings forecast as margins improved.
April 19- Honeywell International Inc reported a 17 percent rise in first-quarter profit, helped by higher margins. Net income attributable to the company rose to $966 million, or $1.21 per share, in the quarter ended March, from $823 million, or $1.04 per share, a year earlier.
Revenue up slightly to $35 billion, beats Street. April 19- General Electric Co warned of slowing profit growth in its industrial businesses due to weakness in Europe and sliding turbine sales, unnerving Wall Street and pushing its stock down in morning trading. But he said he still expects overall earnings, which include GE Capital, to improve this year.
April 18- The fertilizer plant that exploded on Wednesday night in West, Texas, had tanks of anhydrous ammonia on site. *The biggest U.S. domestic production plant, with an annual capacity of 2.49 million tonnes was owned by CF Industries Holdings and located in Donaldsonville, Louisiana.
April 18- The fertilizer plant that exploded on Wednesday night in West, Texas, had tanks of anhydrous ammonia on site. *The biggest U.S. domestic production plant, with an annual capacity of 2.49 million tonnes was owned by CF Industries Holdings and located in Donaldsonville, Louisiana.
April 10- Jerry Murray, the mid-level Wal-Mart Stores Inc executive who called the chain's early February sales "a total disaster" in an email made public by Bloomberg, left the world's largest retailer last week, Wal-Mart confirmed on Wednesday. Wal-Mart told Reuters that it was Murray's decision to leave and that his last day at Wal-Mart was Friday.
SILAO, Mexico, April 9- Made in Mexico is increasingly more likely to mean cars than clothes as the country's manufacturing sector moves away from the low-skill, high-volume production lines of the past toward more sophisticated products.
LONDON, April 3- Helicopter jet turbines that once flew for the U.S. military are on a final, earthbound mission- pumping gas on home soil as part of an assault on costs in the shale drilling industry.