Thursday’s results
Girls soccer
CCS playoffs
Division I semifinals
At Valley Christian-San Jose
St. Francis 2, Monta Vista 0
Monta Vista 0 0-0
St. Francis 0 2-2
SF - Rogind (penalty kick); Moon (Rogind).
Records - Monta Vista 11-5-5; St. Francis 18-4-4.
Los Gatos 1, Carlmont 1 (2OT)
Los Gatos 0100-1
Carlmont 1000-1
Los [...]

NEW YORK%26XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. reports third-quarter earnings on Thursday and its rival and proposed acquirer, Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., reports on Tuesday Feb. 26. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period. OVERVIEW: The pending combination of XM and Sirius dominated the [...]

Women’s swimming
Western Athletic championship
In San Antonio
Team results - Nevada 246; 2. Northern Arizona 236; 3. Hawaii 200; 4. San Jose State 192; 5. New Mexico State 171; 6. Boise State 98; 7. Idaho 94; 8. University of San Diego 91.
500 free - Emma Berry (Hawaii) 4:54.71; San Jose State [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dow Chemical Co (DOW.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday reported a drop in quarterly profit that was not as steep as analysts had expected as growth overseas helped offset weak U.S. housing and auto markets as well as spiraling energy and raw material costs.
The largest U.S. chemical [...]

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp (GM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Friday that its U.S. retail sales rose in January, supported by hot-selling vehicles such as the redesigned Chevrolet Malibu and the Cadillac CTS, and month-end vehicle inventories declined.
GM, the largest U.S. automaker, said its inventory of cars and trucks [...]

By Kevin Krolicki
DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. auto sales for February are on track for a steeper drop than a month earlier in a sign of the pressure on consumer spending, Ford Motor Co’s (F.N: Quote, Profile, Research) chief sales analyst said on Thursday.
“The indications that we are getting right now is [...]

By Chang-Ran Kim, Asia auto correspondent
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Suzuki Motor Corp booked a better-than-expected 23 percent jump in quarterly profit as its Swift, SX4 and other compact cars powered a robust global sales growth amid record-high fuel prices.
Suzuki, valued at $13.6 billion — just shy of Ford Motor Co’s market [...]

Feb 1 (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor Co’s (005380.KS: Quote, Profile, Research) total sales
during January (in vehicles):
Jan 2008 Jan 2008
TOTAL SALES [...]

By Dayan Candappa and John Irish
MANAMA/DUBAI (Reuters) - The global credit crisis has diminished the Arab appetite for securitization, delaying development of a potential $250 billion market that would drive growth in Islamic finance, industry officials said on Monday.
From governments to ratings agencies, officials had been talking of an impending boom [...]

(Adds analyst reaction, background)
By Wayne Cole
SYDNEY, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Australian consumers went on a
shopping spree last quarter, data showed on Tuesday, giving a
boost to an already red-hot economy and reinforcing the case
for an imminent rise in interest rates.
The upbeat figures came as the Reserve Bank of Australia
(RBA) [...]