British Airways was one of the strongest climbers, however, as a surprise third-quarter operating profit pushed its shares up by 1.5% to 214.5p.
Coldplay's huge profit pushes Roger Waters and his marathon 2010-13 The Wall Live tour into fourth place on the highest-grossing list.
But with the hunt for natural resources and profit pushing businesses into increasingly dangerous places, are big companies doing enough to protect their workers?
Ogmundsson, who has run the franchise since 2004, would have needed to increase the price of a Big Mac by 20% in order to make a decent profit, pushing the price of the sandwich up to 780 krona ($6.36), from the already pricey 650 krona ($5.29).
Joerres' first priority was to move the company's focus away from top-line growth and toward profit, pushing his managers to spend more time generating small accounts from one of the 4,338 branches and less time going after national or regional contracts.
When microfinance banks maximize profits, push loans on borrowers who can't afford them, generate overindebtedness and move away from the original and primary mission to reduce poverty, they replicate banking practices that have contributed to the global recession.
Inflation has cut into the real value of wages and profits, pushing up poverty again.The government's energy and farming policies have caused particular problems.
McGruder, over the years, had his pint-size comic-strip characters ridicule BET for its programming content, most notably for its penchant for profit-pushing thuggish rap videos.
Economists said the weakness was also expected to feed into the Japan's domestic economy, as declining exports hurt corporate profits, pushing many smaller companies into bankruptcy.
