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Barnes & Noble is reporting a bigger fourth-quarter loss than analysts expected as the bookseller invested heavily in its e-book reader Nook and as liquidation sales by rival Borders hurt its revenue.

Natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy says it took a $205 million first-quarter loss after marking down the value of derivatives contracts used to guard against rising energy costs.

Taser International Inc. said Wednesday it posted a fourth-quarter loss on a downturn in sales because of lower demand from law enforcement and military customers.

Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. says it trimmed its fiscal fourth quarter loss as the homebuilder booked smaller land-related write-downs versus a year ago.

KB Home narrowed its fiscal third-quarter loss, helped by fewer charges and higher revenue.

Gaming operator Tropicana Entertainment Inc. of Las Vegas on Friday posted a second quarter loss of $1.6 million on net revenue of $165.1 million.

Scandinavian airline group SAS AB saw its losses narrow in the second quarter and said Wednesday it would have swung back to profit if it weren't for the ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano.

Verso Paper Corp. booked a wider second-quarter loss on Wednesday, absent one-time gains that helped results in the year-ago period.

Chrysler Group LLC says growing sales helped it narrow its second-quarter loss to $172 million, a year after emerging from bankruptcy protection

BP said it had set aside $32.2 billion to deal with the aftermath of the spill, leading to a second-quarter loss of $17 billion.