With excellent momentum leaving 2024 and entering 2025, management expects another year of strong growth. The full-year outlook calls for adjusted diluted earnings per share of $11.50 to $13.50, representing an 8.3% to 27% increase on 2024's figure of $10.61.

Apple and other big U.S. companies reporting fatter profits than expected are helping stock indexes shave off more of their sharp losses from the start of the week.

Wall Street pointed higher early Friday as more strong earnings results trickled in along with a closely-watched report from the U.S. government showing that inflation ticked higher. Futures for the