• Adecco announced plans to acquire professional staffing firm MPS (NYSE:MPS) for $1.3 billion

• Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) bettered earnings and revenue expectations with third quarter adjusted results of 51 cents a share, 3 cent higher than Zacks estimates, on revenues of $11.6 billion, which beat Zacks estimates of $11.47 billion. Full-year guidance was also raised to $2.00-$2.05 from $1.90-$2.00 prior

• United Technologies (NYSE:UTX) third quarter numbers beat consensus estimates with earnings of $1.14 versus Zacks estimates of $1.12 on revenues of $13.38 billion up from estimates of $13.40 billion. The firm expects full year earnings in the mid-point of its earlier guidance of $4.00-$4.20

• State Street (NYSE:STT) reported third quarter operating earnings of $1.05 a share, beating Zacks estimates of $1.00 a share, as revenues of $2.77 billion were above estimates of $2.22 billion. However, the company lowered full-year operating results from $4.25-$4.50 to $4.13-$4.17

• Comerica (NYSE:CMA) reported third quarter earnings

Yodel for profit: In “Great Dividend Plays from Switzerland” which company did David Costa recommend?

Investors should look at Adecco because it has international operations, modest growth and it is paying a decent dividend of over 2 percent, Costa told “Power Lunch Europe” Thursday.