Bristol-Myers Squibb Co's quarterly sales and earnings beat Wall Street expectations, helped by cost cuts and growing sales of its treatments for cancer, blood clots and diabetes.The company on Friday said it earned $726 million, or 44 cents per share, in the fourth quarter. That compared with $925 million, or 56 cents per share, in the year-earlier period, when Bristol-Myers took a big write-off for a failed hepatitis C drug.Excluding special items, the drugmaker earned 51 cents per share, well above the average analyst estimate of 43 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.Global company revenue rose 6 percent to $4.44 billion, topping Wall Street expectations of $4.3 billion.
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Thomson Reuters Corporation (Thomson Reuters) is a provider of information for the world?s businesses and professionals. Shares of TRI fell by 0.8% or $-0.33/share to $41.10. In the past year, the shares have traded as low as $29.40 and as high as $42.10. On average, 929729 shares of TRI.TO exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 943367.
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