Nasdaq earnings slip on deal costs Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. reported on Wednesday a lower second-quarter profit, mainly due to acquisition costs related to the closing of two deals by the transatlantic exchange operator. Net income attributable to Nasdaq totaled $88-million (U.S.), or 52 cents per diluted share, down from $93-million, or 53 cents a diluted share, a year earlier. Nasdaq closed a $390-million deal to buy Thomson Reuters Corp."s investor relations, public relations and multimedia services businesses, during the quarter. It also completed a $750-million deal to buy electronic Treasuries-trading platform eSpeed from BGC Partners Inc . Stripping out one-time charges related to the deals, Nasdaq earned 62 cents a share. That was a penny shy of what analysts had expected, on average, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Net revenue rose 8 per cent to $451-million, ahead of analysts" expectations of $441.4-million. The company said the increase in revenues was driven by acquisitions and organic growth in all of its business segments.