quarter profits of $1.1 billion. Revenue rose 14 percent from a year earlier to $7.8 billion. Analysts expected lower profits on revenue of $7.35 billion. The U.S. dollar fell against the euro and the yen. Light sweet crude oil for March delivery fell $2.22 to $89.59 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold futures fell $23.70 to $1,346.50 an ounce. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 2.49, or 0.0 percent, to 11,822.80. Companies including Caterpillar, Du Pont, and Boeing led decliners, but consumer-linked stocks such as Wal-Mart, Procter & Gamble, and Home Depot were the top gainers on the Dow. Bank stocks including Bank of America and J.P. Morgan were both over 1 percent. Morgan Stanley was up 4.5 percent after it posted better than expected quarterly earnings. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 1.66, or 0.1 percent, to 1,280.26. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index fell 21.07, or 0.8 percent, to 2,704.29.
