[PR Newswire] - Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile S.A. reported today earnings for the first half of 2010 of US$181.5 million , an increase of 4.2% with respect to the same period of 2009, when earnings totaled US$174.2 million .  Gross Margin reached US$303.2 million , 9.7% higher than the US$276.4 million recorded during the first half of 2009.  Revenues totaled US$865.3 million for the first six months, representing an increase of 29.5% over the US$668.4 million reported in the same period of 2009.

[AP] - Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s drug pipeline is looking stronger than expected and it's unlikely that its psychiatric drug Abilify will face generic competition before 2015, a Jefferies analyst said Tuesday in upgrading the stock.