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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Danone , the French yogurt and dairy group, said after the Paris close that comparable sales growth will be close to 4% in the second half of 2009, with comparable operating margins up between 0.6 and (Read More)
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Credit-rating agency Fitch Ratings said it expects increased stability in ratings for U.S. retailers in 2010 as they improved cash flow and liquidity. Fitch has revised several negative outlooks to st (Read More)
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FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- Experian , the Dublin-based global information services company, reported Wednesday that its first-half net income attributable to shareholders declined to $249 million from $258 million in the same (Read More)
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - RF Micro Devices Inc. on Monday said it expects to exceed its prior target for free cash flow in fiscal 2010, initially forecast at $130 million. The Greenboro, N.C.-based semiconductor company also (Read More)
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Devon Energy on Monday said it plans to generate after-tax proceeds of $4.5 billion to $7.5 billion as part of an overall repositioning of the energy giant to focus on its onshore business. Devon wi (Read More)
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FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- ThyssenKrupp AG , the German steel and industrial group, was upgraded on Monday by several brokerages. J.P. Morgan raised its rating to overweight from neutral, saying that management has stabilized (Read More)
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MADRID (MarketWatch) -- German fertilizer producer K+S was moved to conviction sell from unrated on Monday at Goldman Sachs, who said it expects loose market conditions to continue in 2010 and 2011 on weak global demand and (Read More)
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FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- ThyssenKrupp AG , the German steel and industrial group, was upgraded on Monday to overweight from neutral at J.P. Morgan, which said that the management has stabilized the balance sheet and positio (Read More)
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- PSA Peugeot Citroen on Thursday hiked its 2009 forecasts due to significantly stronger-than-forecast first-half production and sales. Output in the fourth quarter 2009 will be 30% higher than a year e (Read More)
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- U.K. telecoms company BT Group said Thursday that its second-quarter net profit rose 13.2% to 428 million pounds ($710 million), helped by a tax gain, as it also lifted its outlook for revenue and cas (Read More)
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Wireless telecom giant Vodafone Group said Tuesday that its first-half net profit attributable to shareholders totaled 4.8 billion pounds ($8.0 billion), up from 2.14 billion pounds recorded last year (Read More)
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MADRID (MarketWatch) -- U.K. pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca was upgraded to buy from hold on Monday at Royal Bank of Scotland, which cited potential for strong cash flow generation. The investment bank said while there is (Read More)
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Stanley Works late Thursday cut its 2009 earnings outlook to a range of $2.61 to $2.71 a share from $2.84 to $2.94 a share to reflect a one-time $18 million charge related to its merger with Bl (Read More)
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Sirius XM Radio said Thursday its third-quarter loss narrowed to $149.1 million, or 4 cents a share, from a loss of $4.9 billion, or $1.93 a share in the year-ago period. Absent one-time charges, Si (Read More)
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Canadian Natural Resources said its third-quarter profit fell 77% to C$658 million ($619 million), or C$1.21 a share, as oil and gas prices fell. Analysts polled by FactSet expected earnings of C$1.2 (Read More)
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Research In Motion , the Waterloo, Ontario maker of the BlackBerry mobile device, said it will buy back up to $1.2 billion of its own stock. That represents about 21 million shares or 3.6% of its outs (Read More)
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The Four Seasons’ Web SiteThe Four Seasons Resort and Club near Dallas has gone delinquent on its $175 million securitized mortgage after failing to generate enough cash flow to cover its interest costs.The hotel’s owner, clo (Read More)