Reuters - Nike Inc stressed on Wednesday that it was still a growth company even as U.S. weakness spooked investors, sending shares down 5 percent on a day when the world's largest athletic shoe and apparel maker posted strong international results.

Reuters - Oracle Corp reported a 27 percent rise in quarterly profit as sales of new software beat expectations, but the company gave a cautious outlook citing economic uncertainties, and its shares fell 3 percent.

AP - Oracle Corp. finished its fiscal year with an impressive flourish, then pulled out a wet blanket.

Reuters - Research In Motion on Wednesday posted a profit outlook that fell short of analyst expectations, sending its shares 8 percent lower, even as the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone posted quarterly earnings that more than doubled.

Reuters - General Mills Inc on Wednesday reported a fall in fourth-quarter net earnings and said it expects costs to rise 9 percent in the current fiscal year as the food industry faces a continued increase in prices for grain, energy and other commodities.

Reuters - Monsanto Co posted a higher quarterly profit on Wednesday, but revenue and its full-year forecast fell slightly shy of expectations and its shares fell as much as 5 percent.

AP - With ingredient prices popping up like toaster strudel, General Mills said on Wednesday it has raised cereal prices and might consider other price increases, too.

Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc , the investment bank which last week posted its first quarterly loss as a public company, said it was rehiring two executives who had left in 2007 for unspecified reasons.

Reuters - Darden Restaurants Inc posted a higher quarterly profit on Tuesday, boosted by the Olive Garden chain, which continued to attract casual diners in the weak economy, and lower costs that helped raise operating profit at its Red Lobster chain.