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A roundup of the latest corporate earnings reports and what companies are saying about future quarters.

Major red flags of the possible fallout from tougher sanctions on Russia came Tuesday, when U. K. oil producer BP warned that further economic restrictions would hurt its business. European stock markets, however, advance against a background of solid earnings reports.

French carmaker Renault says its profits in the first half of the year rose, partly thanks to lower costs as its revenue dropped.

Pfizer's second-quarter earnings plunged 79 percent from last year, when the world's second-largest drugmaker booked a business spinoff gain of more than $10 billion, but resul…

Merck & Co. (MRK) on Tuesday reported earnings that more than doubled in its second quarter, and topped analysts' expectations.

Three families started One Million Degrees to help community college students. Now the statistics are finally changing. David Scherer was troubled by the numbers. In 2002, roughly 100,000 students were attending one of the seven City Colleges of Chicago. Yet less than 10% were getting a degree. And those who did were taking an average of six years to do so.