{"id":77123,"date":"2013-03-27T15:51:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T22:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=77123"},"modified":"2013-03-27T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T22:51:05","slug":"business-news-nike-reports-16-percent-profit-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=77123","title":{"rendered":"Business News &#8211; Nike reports 16 percent profit increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nike, Inc. reported revenues from continuing operations rose 9 percent in its third quarter ended Feb. 28, to $6.2 billion, up 10 percent excluding currency changes. Net income from continuing operations increased 16 percent with the help of gross margin expansion and a lower tax rate. Worldwide futures orders were up 6 percent, or 7 percent growth excluding currency changes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Our team delivered strong results in Q3. We did it with\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfersvillage.com\/surfing-news\/60246\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nike, Inc. reported revenues from continuing operations rose 9 percent in its third quarter ended Feb. 28, to $6.2 billion, up 10 percent excluding currency changes. Net income from continuing operations increased 16 percent with the help of gross margin expansion and a lower tax rate. Worldwide futures orders were up 6 percent, or 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-sports-business-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77125,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77123\/revisions\/77125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}