Earnings Announcements

*As on Wall Street, soft Q4 earnings seen for Canada. TORONTO, Jan 20- Financial results from Canada's biggest companies are likely to disappoint investors in the coming weeks with weak global growth and mixed commodity prices expected to have pummeled the quarterly earnings of oil companies and miners.

*Morgan Stanley up after results. NEW YORK, Jan 18- The Dow and S&P; 500 closed at five-year highs on Friday as the market registered a third straight week of gains on a solid start to the quarterly earnings season. Morgan Stanley was the latest Wall Street bank to report strong results.

NEW YORK-- Shares of chipmakers and other computer industry suppliers fell Friday after Intel Corp. reported weak demand for PCs is hurting its earnings. Investors are also concerned about Intel's plans to significantly increase its capital spending to $13 billion in 2013, up $2 billion from 2012, despite the slowing sales.

*Weak outlook weighs on Intel. NEW YORK, Jan 18- U.S. stocks were little changed on Friday as a weak outlook from tech heavyweight Intel offset a better-than-expected quarterly profit at Morgan Stanley.

NEW YORK, Jan 18- Morgan Stanley executives made good on their promise to reap earnings from the bank's burgeoning wealth management business, reporting on Friday that profit margins in the business soared in the fourth quarter. Morgan Stanley has made a bigger bet on retail investors than its major rivals by buying most of Citigroup's Smith Barney brokerage.

MEMPHIS, Tenn.-- First Horizon National Corp. said Friday that its fourth-quarter net income rose 16 percent, as lower costs more than offset a drop in revenue. The Memphis, Tenn.- based bank earned $40.7 million, or 17 cents per share, up from $34.9 million, or 13 cents per share, in the same quarter last year.

TRENTON, N.J.-- Health care giant Johnson& Johnson will focus on medical devices and new prescription drugs in development, plus progress on its manufacturing problems, when it reports fourth-quarter results before the stock market opens Tuesday.

*Q4 adjusted profit of 44 cents tops 43 cent Wall St view. General Electric Co shareholders are wondering what the company's chief executive plans to do with a cash windfall that could total tens of billions of dollars over several years as the company sells its remaining stake in NBC Universal and recoups more of the profits earned by finance unit GE Capital.

NEW ORLEANS-- Oil and natural gas driller McMoRan Exploration Co. posted a fourth-quarter loss Friday on impairment and write-down costs along with a sharp drop in revenue. McMoRan Exploration agreed to sell itself to Freeport-McMoRan Copper& Gold Inc. in December for about $2.1 billion.