Earnings Update

Here are today's earnings reports:

• Caterpillar missed its earnings per share estimate by 23 cents and reported a profit of $661 Million compared with a profit of $975 Million a year ago.
  
  
• American Express missed its earnings per share estimate by 1 cent and reported a profit of $172 Million compared with a profit of $831 Million a year ago.
  
  
• McDonalds beat its earnings expectation by 4 cents a share and reported a profit of $985.3 Million compared with a profit of $1.3 Billion a year ago.
  
  
• Amgen missed its earnings per share estimate by 1 cent and reported a profit of $961 Million compared with $835 Million a year ago.
  
  
• Texas Instruments beat its estimate by 9 cents a share and reported profits of $107 Million compared with $756 Million a year ago.
  
  
• Kimberly-Clark missed its earnings estimate by 2 cents a share and reported a drop in profit of 8% from a year ago.