11.   By shrinking the number of shares, a buyback boosts per-share profits, unless profits also decline.

12.   CANADIAN stocks fell, driven lower by gold and base metal issues as investors anticipated corporate profits may decline because of lower commodity prices.

13.   Canadian stocks fell amid plunging telecommunication company shares and concern that corporate profits will decline, analysts said.

14.   Canadian stocks fell, driven lower by gold and base metal issues as investors anticipated corporate profits may decline with lower commodity prices.

15.   Canadian stocks fell, led by Cognos Inc. and Corel Corp. on concern profits will decline later this year.

16.   Corporate profits also declined because of slower local spending amid the worst military tension between Taipei and Beijing in four decades, executives and analysts said.

17.   Corporate profits may decline, but a tight labor market and falling interest rates should keep consumers flush enough to extend the boom, these economists said.

18.   Feedlot profits have declined in the past three months as shrinking supplies of young cattle ready for fattening have sent costs up.

19.   Food ingredients group Burns Philp and food producer National Foods have each said full-year profit will decline from a year earlier.

20.   It warned full-year profit will decline.