Overall profits in the first quarter are on track to climb 5 percent over the year before.

NPR: Stocks Barely Budge; Market Ends Week With Loss

We signed an authorisation to proceed yesterday with TAS to immediately begin work designing and building our satellites, and this puts us on track for our first launch of the new satellites in the first quarter of 2015.

BBC: Huge order for Iridium spacecraft

Europe's leading internet service provider (ISP) T-Online has surprised analysts by reporting better-than-expected profit in the third quarter, putting it on track for its first profitable year.

BBC: T-Online shines as Tiscali stumbles

Britain's recovery first went seriously "off track" in the final quarter of 2010, some time before the global PMI surveys and other measures of confidence headed down, and well before the eurozone crisis went critical.

BBC: Eurozone and the UK: A tale of two crises