Halliburton Company (HAL) Q3 Profit Rises

Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL) released its earnings report for the three months ended September 30 this morning before the bell rang on Wall Street. The company showed earnings of $0.83 per share. Revenues for the third quarter of the year came in at $7.5 billion. Pre-market traders seemed little impressed with Halliburton's performance. The company's stock was down a little over 1.5% at time of writing.

In the same three months of last year Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL) managed to earn 67 cents per share on revenues totaling $7.1 billion. The fall in the company's stock on today's market...