French insurance giant AXA said Thursday that improving sales in its life insurance and asset management businesses helped lift 2006 profit 18%. Beating analysts' predictions, AXA's net income rose to ...

Spain's Banco Espanol de Credito, or Banesto, said Wednesday it more than doubled full-year profit in 2006 after selling its controlling stake in domestic real-estate company Urbis. Madrid-based ...

Germany's Lufthansa said Monday that its earnings grew strongly in 2006 as passenger numbers increased. Lufthansa said preliminary figures showed that its net profit for the full year increased to ...

Germany's BMW, the world's largest premium carmaker, said on Thursday its 2006 pre-tax profit rose by a quarter to a record 4.124 billion euros ($5.4 billion) on buoyant demand for its top selling ...

Slovakia's gross domestic product was expected to grow by 7.7 percent this year, 1.2 percent more than previous estimates, the government Statistics Office said Thursday. The GDP growth was also ...

AXA, Europe's second-biggest insurer, reported a 9.9% rise in 2006 sales on Thursday as robust market conditions spurred higher sales of products throughout the sector. Total sales rose to 78.775 ...

French tyre maker Michelin said Thursday that net profit for 2006 fell 36% from a year earlier, squeezed by restructuring charges and high raw material costs. Michelin, Europe's largest tyre company ...

Citigroup awarded Chairman and Chief Executive Charles Prince $25.98 million in compensation for 2006, about 13% more than a year earlier, though costs grew twice as fast as revenue. Prince was given ...

Private-equity powerhouse Blackstone Group LP said Monday that Chief Executive Stephen Schwarzman made $400 million in 2006 -- almost double the combined compensation for the CEOs of Wall Street's ...

In our Big Money '07 series we're looking to energize your portfolio-- literally-- as we look at the best ways for investors to make money in the energy sector. On "Morning Call" two guests give their ...

We have a busy day ahead on Monday. Scheduled topics and guests include: Spam (the email kind) and just why it's once again flooding email addresses in huge numbers. Richard Prati--CEO and Chairman of ...