The appliance maker's third-quarter results were hurt by rising costs of raw materials and an unfavorable price mix.
In Q3, Big Blue almost ended its long drought in revenue growth and beat analysts' estimates on revenue across all its main business segments.
Same-store sales grew 1.9%, above the company's historical average but below rival Home Depot's 5.5% gain in its first quarter.
The merger would make Steward the largest private for-profit hospital operator in the U.S. with 36 facilities across 10 states.
Businesses outside e-commerce were unprofitable in Q4, suggesting Alibaba's diversification efforts have a long way to go.
"Target's not out of the woods, yet," a retail analyst says. "The road to improvement will be long."
The off-price retailer's disappointing Q1 earnings "may signal that no part of retail is immune to the current challenges.”
The $5.2 billion acquisition of Patheon positions Thermo Fisher to grab a slice of the fast-growing contract drug production business.
With a $3.1 billion offer for the spectrum owner, Verizon "now has all of the pieces in place to quickly accelerate the deployment of 5G."
The $3.9 billion deal is the largest in the history of the TV station operator, which is known for conservative-leaning programming.
The decline in earnings reflected an after-tax loss of $267 million from insurance underwriting that offset gains from the BNSF railroad and utilities.
The parent of iHeartRadio is in talks with lenders on a plan to relieve its $20 billion debt burden from a 2008 leveraged buyout.
