{"id":2668,"date":"2010-01-28T15:20:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T14:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2010-01-28T15:20:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T14:20:03","slug":"altria-reports-2009-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-results-business-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/2668\/altria-reports-2009-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-results-business-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"Altria Reports 2009 Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results (Business Wire)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND, Va.----Altria Group, Inc. today announced 2009 fourth-quarter reported diluted earnings per share increased 6.1% to $0.35 versus $0.33 in the prior-year period. Reported results reflect higher operating companies income from cigarettes, cigars and financial services, as well as the OCI contribution from the UST LLC acquisition, lower corporate asset impairment and exit costs, and higher earnings from Altria\u2019s equity investment in SABMiller plc , partially offset by higher interest expense, higher income taxes, and higher general corporate expenses versus the prior-year period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND, Va.----Altria Group, Inc. today announced 2009 fourth-quarter reported diluted earnings per share increased 6.1% to $0.35 versus $0.33 in the prior-year period. Reported results reflect higher operating companies income from cigarettes, cigars and financial services, as well as the OCI contribution from the UST LLC acquisition, lower corporate asset impairment and exit costs, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome-start-here-tradecrudeoilchatroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}