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McDonald's Corp. said Wednesday that a key revenue figure climbed 6.7 percent in January as U.S. customers spent more on breakfast items, beverages and its new Chicken McBites.

In the most impressive surge for the job market since the middle of last decade, the United States added 243,000 jobs in January, far more than economists expected.

The unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years.

Wynn Resorts says revenue growth in its Macau and Las Vegas casinos and an income tax gain helped drive profit up 67 percent in the last three months of 2011.

Walt Disney Co. gave a 2011 pay package valued at about $31.4 million to CEO Bob Iger, up 12 percent from a year earlier, according to an Associated Press analysis of data disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday.

Discover Financial Services says higher spending at the start of the holiday shopping season helped its fourth-quarter profit rise 46 percent.

The average major league salary increased 2.7 percent this year to nearly $3.1 million, the largest rise since 2008.

Budget airline Ryanair has reported a 28 percent increase in profit in the six months ending Sept. 30 as the company extracted more revenue per passenger.

Japan says industrial production in September fell for the first time in six months as the export-reliant country grappled with a strong yen and global economic turmoil.

Chemical maker DuPont says strong demand for its agricultural products helped boost third-quarter earnings 23 percent.

Microsoft is trying to lift its stock price with its largest dividend increase since it started making the quarterly payments seven years ago.