A public utility holding company Edison International posted that its quarterly earnings fell to 211 million dollars, or 64 cents a share, from 288 million dollars, or 87 cents a share, a year earlier, when it recorded one-time gains from taxes and asset sales.

Low-cost mobile phone service provider MetroPCS Communications Inc posted a fourth-quarter 47 million dollars loss as the company took a charge on investments that lost value.

Henkel KGaA, an international household products company headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, posted an 11 percent increase in fourth-quarter profit after selling more adhesives and said it will curtail as many as 3,000 jobs to further cut costs.

Analysts at Lehman Brothers reiterate their "equal weight" rating on DreamWorks Animation SKG, while reducing their estimates for the company. The target price has been cut from $33 to $26.

Foster Wheeler Ltd reported rise of fourth-quarter profit due to new orders. The company intends to look at acquisitions to help sustain growth this year.

Lloyds TSB Group Plc, the biggest U.K. provider of personal loans, posted its second-half profit rose 9%, helped by mortgage lending, asset sales and cost controls.

PD&E Corp. posted that its fourth-quarter profit increased 34% boosted mainly by increased rates from infrastructure investments.

Hotel owner Host Hotels & Resorts Inc posted its quarterly funds from operations rose, due to an increase in average room rates.

The largest international apparel and home fashions off-price retailer TJX Cos. posted improvements in inventory and cost controls helped boost its fourth-quarter profit by almost 47%.

Garmin Ltd., the company that develops consumer, aviation, and marine technologies, posted that its profit jumped 70% as sales doubled in the fourth quarter, easily beating Wall Street forecasts, on strong holiday demand for the company's digital navigation devices.

Fourth-quarter profit at Tim Hortons Inc rose 11.5 % as growth in same store sales helped to offset higher costs.

A global American beverage and snack company PepsiCo Inc. posts its 2008 profit outlook is unchanged from a previous forecast and that it plans to buy back 4.3 billion dollars in shares this year.