Boeing profit beats estimates despite 787 problems

By Alwyn Scott NEW YORK (Reuters) - Boeing Co's first-quarter earnings jumped nearly 20 percent, handily beating analysts' estimates and showing little impact from the 787 Dreamliner problems, sending the company's shares up 3.2 percent in premarket trading. Boeing, in its quarterly report on Wednesday, stood by its sales and earnings forecasts for the full year, reassuring investors that it expects to deliver all of the jets it had planned, including Dreamliners. The company did not release a cost estimate for the Dreamliner problems, as some analysts had expected. ...