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He said he expected new rules to be formulated during the first quarter.

The company declined to provide a first-quarter profit forecast or guidance for the rest of the year, citing the uncertain economy.

After a strong first quarter, the economy seems to be slowing, as have house sales.

But all in, the actual rate of reserves accumulation in the first quarter might be up to $100bn higher than the published number suggests.

In April, Mr. Otellini said demand for its computer chips appeared to have 'bottomed out' in the first quarter.

But he said it was "unreasonable" to expect investment banking to remain as strong as it was in the first quarter.

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Profits fell in the first quarter from a year earlier, but by less than those of many rivals.

Ad spending in those markets in the first quarter was down at least 5% from a year earlier -- and much more in some markets.

Yesterday was no different: just minutes after its first-quarter release, Nokia had lost about a seventh of its market value.

Since the firm's handset business also tends to be slow early in the year, Sanjay Jha, its boss, expects a loss in the first quarter.

Indeed, some had been hoping for a modest decline in the first quarter to take some of the heat out of the market.

The timing is unclear, but economists estimate that up to $100bn of that target could have been shifted to CIC in the first quarter.

The first-quarter GDP data show just how much Japan's overall economy depends on exporters and the businesses that cater to them.

The bank maintained that its first-quarter performance so far is "solidly profitable" and capital is "strong" .

Go take a look at the performance of her first quarter of this year, you will suddenly see the light, the wave of the necessary adjustments.

Economic growth in the Philippines slowed down in the first quarter of 2011 due to lower government spending and a slowdown in global trade.

And with first-quarter GDP growth of 3. 2%, the economy has recovered all the ground it had lost since the fourth quarter of 2007.

The company reported a 94% increase in first-quarter profits from a year earlier.

Prices, which zoomed up in the first quarter of this year, are now steady and should not increase again for several months.

Analysts predict it will be negative this quarter before beginning to pick up in the first quarter of next year.

Analysts also noted there was an improved quality of the earnings in the first quarter, which had fewer one-offs than in previous quarters.

The U. S. recovery braked sharply at the start of the year, with the economy growing at just a 1. 9 percent pace in the first quarter.

First- quarter operating profit dropped on a sequential basis ; this follows a year where income growth decelerated to a mere 4 per cent .

For months China's policymakers have been trying to slow the country's economy, which grew venomously in the year to the first quarter.

But even this flicker of life may prove to have been snuffed out in the first quarter of this year.

The drop in first-quarter earnings isn't a surprise, with oil prices down about 55% from where they were a year ago.

The company's first quarter-on-quarter sales decline shows even the mighty search giant isn't immune to the pullback in and spending.

Lenovo said the new LeTV will be an Internet-connected product and is expected to launch in the first quarter.

Morgan Stanley is the only one of the five biggest US investment banks to report a rise in fixed-income revenue from the first quarter.

Economists also expect first-quarter economic growth figures, due to be released on Thursday, to put more pressure on the PBoC.

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Profits seem to have already turned around, and Mr Gordon predicts employment will follow by the first quarter of 2010.

GM's China auto sales rose 10% from a year earlier in the first quarter, about one-third as fast as they rose in the year-earlier quarter.

Profits seem to have turned around already and Mr Gordon predicts employment will follow by the first quarter of 2010.

China reported that its sizzling economic growth continued to slow modestly in the first quarter of this year.

Rough diamonds continued to rise in value in the first quarter of this year, and broke their pre-recession levels.

Capital investment by businesses turned up in the first quarter, boosted by outlays for commercial structures and equipment and software.

What I mean is with the profits from the first quarter acre, the farmers could buy a second, and a third, and a fourth.

Their contribution in the first quarter of this year is likely to be just 0. 1 percentage point, the bank adds.

COP is slated to complete its split in the first quarter of next year, giving the company's shares some time to turn to the upside.

The only positive sign was that volumes fell less quickly than in the first quarter, when traffic declined 27 per cent.

Ford yesterday declined to comment, referring to former statements that it expected the deal to be signed by the end of the first quarter.

This, along with the general weakness of the PC market, explains why its earnings dropped almost a third in the first quarter of this year.

This was in sharp contrast with a $961m or 85 cents a share profit for the first quarter a year ago.

Chinese bank lending is usually strongest in the first quarter and moderates as the year goes on.

The company estimated that it remained profitable so far in the first quarter.

The latest purchasing managers readings, he said, were consistent with a 1 per cent fall in GDP in the first quarter.

NOL stayed firmly in the red through the first quarter of the year, despite some of its biggest shipping line rivals returning to the black.

First-quarter earnings beat expectations, but were still far down from a year earlier.

Goldman seems to be doing fine now: this week, it reported unexpectedly robust first-quarter earnings of $1. 8bn.

But in the first quarter of this year, growth was already back up to 11. 9 per cent, prompting concerns that it was expanding too fast.

Analysts at Bank of America Corp. , Nomura Holdings Inc. and IHS Global Insight said the first quarter may mark a trough.

ADP says the number of background checks it performed for companies rose 24% in the first quarter from a year earlier.

The privately owned company will release full financial figures with its annual report at the end of the first quarter, Mr. Gan said.

But the worse the inventory draw-down in the first quarter, the better second-quarter GDP will look.

Earlier this week, Clorox published their company's first quarter sales, and many were surprised to see a boost in net income by 15%.

In the first quarter of this year, SJM's share was 28 per cent, a far cry from the pre-2004 era when it had a monopoly.

China's online recruitment market, on the other had, grew by 36 percent in the first quarter over the same period a year earlier.

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Ba shusong said, the first quarter startup dense deflation policy may include raised bank reserve ratio, interest rate and exchange rate.

First-quarter data suggested Athens had so far managed to stay on track with the IMF- designed austerity programme.

The company warned that results later in the year "may not be as strong as the first quarter" .

Mitsubishi Electric also announced better than expected first-quarter profits, and has revised upwards its earnings estimates for this year.

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Membersip fees should be paid within the first quarter of every year.

With a first-quarter pretax profit of $660 million, the company is also planning to IPO this year on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Signs of a slowdown in the first quarter are now expected to be followed by a jump in lending in April.

Nippon Steel Corp. , Japan's largest producer of the metal, returned to a first-quarter profit after boosting output to tap demand in Asia.

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Taking the first quarter as a whole they rose by just $8 billion, compared with $154 billion a year earlier.

The estimates of the private-sector economists polled by the Journal suggest the first-quarter pickup wasn't all due to that base effect.

Mr Krause spoke as Deutsche Bank earnings outstripped expectations in a strong first quarter.

At dbFX. com, volume rose 37 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier and its customer numbers more than doubled in 2008.

The Sands generated more than twice as much operating profit in the first quarter on less than half the invested capital .

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Qu Hongbin, an economist at HSBC, forecasts that exports in the first quarter could be 19% lower than a year ago.

UBS pointed to its first-quarter performance as evidence that "trust and confidence" in its business has returned.

The economy grew at just a 1. 8% annual rate in the first quarter and probably only a little faster in the second.

Speaking on a television talk show, Kiichi Miyazawa confirmed expectations of a 2% growth rate for the first quarter of the year.

The company reported in April that its first-quarter profit fell 31% from a year earlier to $1. 95 billion on revenue of $36. 6 billion.

Bank of America posted a net profit for the first quarter of $3. 2 billion, a drop of 24% compared with a year earlier.

But since the end of the first quarter there have been growing signs the economy is stabilising.

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Goldman was the busiest firm in the region excluding Japan during the first quarter measured by the value of equity-capital-markets deals.

Most economists in a Reuters poll said they do not expect the Fed to raise interest rates before the end of the first quarter of 2011.

Even with a strong currency, household consumption fell in the first quarter.

Even at the top end of the projected range, first-quarter revenues would miss many analysts' forecasts.

Second-quarter net income, to be reported today, is expected to be almost two-thirds better than the first quarter.

In the first quarter, Morgan Stanley's overall compensation and benefits fell about 45% from a year earlier.

This is starting to look eerily like the erosion in estimates that transpired over the course of the first quarter.

Residential investment in the first quarter also tumbled 38%, but home building appears to have stopped declining by the end of the quarter.

Real estate cools down Prices in the first quarter fell 3% from the fourth quarter , though are still up more than 10% from a year ago .

China's gross domestic product expanded 9. 7% in the first quarter compared with a year earlier.

Despite price increases (see table below), customer satisfaction with these high-priced hotels is up for the first quarter, . . .

And this comes at a time of an external shock in the first quarter of 2011 from a stagflationary rise in oil prices.

The IMF has compared house prices in the first quarter of this year with their level a year ago in 52 rich and emerging housing markets.

Many believe the economy will continue to shrink through the rest of this year and into the first quarter of next year.

Last week the company posted a 35% drop in first-quarter earnings, hurt by a 58% profit decline in its GE Capital unit.

Three out of four companies that have issued guidance for the first quarter have steered investors lower.

'The company will face tougher challenges in the fourth quarter and first quarter of next year, ' Baosteel said.

Many analysts expect the bank to raise interest rates during the first quarter of 2011 to bring inflation expectations closer to target.

The company blew away analysts' revenue and profit estimates in the first quarter, boosting its stocks on the equity market.

CICC in 2009 the chemical industry strategy report, the chemical industry's profits will be at the bottom of the first quarter of next year.

"We wound up maintaining this view up to $110 and then got out in the first quarter of 2008. "

As a result, China's energy intensity worsened in the first quarter of this year after years of continuous improvement.

China's growth in the first quarter of this year has led some to conclude that the government is up to the same old tricks.

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The quality of China's economic performance continued to improve in the first quarter.

Chinese PC maker Lenovo has reported better-than-expected profits for the first quarter on higher overseas and commercial sales.

Shipment of these orders is expected to be completed before the end of the first quarter of 2010.

But with Ms Lin's help, Mercedes more than doubled car sales in China in the first quarter, compared with a year ago.

The market was seduced by Goldman Sachs' buoyant first quarter into believing the banking outlook might not, after all, be so dismal.

At the end of the first quarter, just 7% of ICBC's total loans were to local-government financing vehicles.

In the first quarter, net profit at Chinese listed firms fell 26% from a year before, J. P. Morgan says.

It was $28. 2 billion in the first quarter of this year, and exports continue to be a key driver of China's overall economic growth.

In the first quarter, Google's Android operating system ran on 34% of smartphones in Western Europe, up from only 8% a year ago.

Global sales of the doll have also continued to fall off, dropping 6% in the first quarter following a 5% drop in the one before.

Then, mature markets accounted for about half of combined sales; in the first quarter, that share was just over a third.

But in this year's first quarter, the company managed earnings of 92 cents a share as the company's cost cuts kicked in.

The company's first-quarter market share remained flat from the fourth quarter at 37%, in line with Nokia's outlook from January.

In this context the sharp narrowing of the current-account surplus to 1. 4% of GDP in the first quarter is nothing to celebrate.

The largest contributor to the first-quarter dive was the decline in exports which, in turn, drove down private investment.

The airline indicated its fortunes may have improved as it announced a Rmb981m profit for the first quarter of this year.

The official added: "Bear in mind, though, that this is partly a correction after the exceptionally good first quarter. "

But the bank also cut its appetite for speculation again, with daily value at risk falling to $136m from $161m in the first quarter.

Sceptics had predicted that after the first-quarter results the unusual conditions that powered FICC revenues would not last.

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This Daily Eastern News blog post from November chronicles live the first quarter of a Southern Illinois University football game.

It was the narrowest deficit since the first quarter of 1989, the ABS said.

By the first quarter of this year, it had fallen by more than half to $327bn, or 2. 3% of GDP.

Dell continued to lose ground, with shipments diving 16. 7 percent in the first quarter, hurt by weakness in the enterprise market.

With a leap in profits in the first quarter of 2008 and a war chest from mega-IPOs, the larger banks are flush with funds.

Yahoo said the transfer of ownership occurred in August and the deconsolidation of Alipay was effective in the first quarter of 2011.

It was the least active first quarter since 2004, according to preliminary figures from Dealogic.

The key to keeping the stock rally going won't so much be whether first-quarter earnings meet or beat those expectations.

Sales of the flagship S-class, more of whose buyers inhabit China than in any other country, rose 25% in the first quarter.

The company expects to complete this trial by the end of the first quarter of 2011.

Bankers said the first quarter seemed relatively quiet after the busy autumn of 2010.

The move, which could be announced as early as next week, comes as the firm prepares to report solid first-quarter earnings Tuesday.

First quarter global steel demand fell 40 percent year-on-year, and is still falling in developed countries.

Ad pages are down 15 percent in the first quarter, compared with the period a year earlier.

As a result, the company's American depositary receipts are down since its fiscal first-quarter earnings report last week.

In the first quarter, they were 29% lower than a year earlier.

Amid the heat, Ms. Jung said Avon is working to fix the problems and craft a new long-term plan by the first quarter.

Official statistics show China's gross domestic product rose 11. 9% from a year earlier in the first quarter.

Total passenger and cargo volumes for all Chinese airlines in the first quarter rose by 1. 2 per cent from a year earlier, Mr Li said.

GM, China's second-biggest carmaker, reported $400m of equity income from its Chinese joint ventures in the first quarter of this year.

Steelmakers were hoping the first quarter would be its worst, in terms of losses, for 2009.

Gross domestic product grew 10. 3% over the same period a year earlier, slowing from the 11. 9% annual growth recorded in the first quarter.

Partly due to the delay, its first-quarter revenue forecast is now below average estimates, according to StarMine.

That must be the view of investors as they sort through Wednesday's ugly first-quarter gross domestic product report.

Actual payouts in the first quarter are projected to decline about 16% from a year earlier, according to S& P data.

Analysts think the German economy shrank slightly in the first quarter, though the data could surprise them.

First-quarter eurozone gross domestic product data on Wednesday will give an indication of the strength of the member countries' economies.

The growing optimism was not dented by news of a sharp contraction in the Japanese economy in the first quarter.

The news is the latest setback for RIM, which recently issued a first-quarter profit warning, citing lower-than-expected BlackBerry sales.

After a strong first quarter, Asian markets entered a consolidation phase in April.

The next leg down could come when banks start reporting first-quarter results later this month.

With a dwindling pot of cash, Chrysler is seeking $7 billion in loans to help it pay bills coming due as soon as the first quarter of 2009.

Thus pension reform, first flagged as long ago as January, has been postponed untilthe first quarter of next year.

High oil prices in the first quarter were a contributing factor to China's turbocharged increase in consumer prices.

That relief turned to excitement as it became clear the industry was enjoying a substantial profit recovery in the first quarter.

Ford's first-quarter earnings were $2. 55bn, up 22 per cent on a year earlier and far ahead of analysts' estimates.

Sales rose almost a third in the first quarter of this year and the company plans to add 200 employees.

The company has said its net exposure, or potential losses if defaults occur, was $4 billion in the first quarter.

In fact, emissions are going in the wrong direction as well, up 1. 2% in the first quarter of this year, a reversal of another trend.

Berkshire's earnings continue to rebound from a weak start to the year, when it posted a rare first-quarter loss amid the recession.

It is now in geosynchronous orbit undergoing rigorous testing and is expected to begin service in the first quarter of 2008.

Import growth has not outpaced exports for three consecutive months since the first quarter of 2004.

PMI10. 2% in the first quarter, is still high, invasion and existence of enterprises ' production and profit were capital goods prices.

The Lakers fell behind in the first quarter Monday night and never got into a rhythm.

ICANN is expecting 300-500 applications when it opens its doors in the first quarter of next year, he said.

Global sales of Smartphones have continued to grow, increasing by 49 percent in the first quarter of 2010.

This was 15 times more than the first-quarter profit but short of the T$28. 8bn recorded a year ago.

US light vehicle sales were 8 per cent lower in the first quarter than a year earlier.

Overall inflation in Australia rose 1. 3% the first quarter this year, and is currently up 3. 3% from a year earlier.

"The DRAM industry is going to bleed until the first quarter of 2009, " said Peter Yu, an analyst at BNP Paribas.

In the first quarter of 2009, retail sales increased by 15% from a year earlier in nominal terms.

The small Cruze sedan, sold globally, overtook the Silverado pick-up truck in the first quarter as the brand's top-selling vehicle.

The performance of the economy this year, including Thursday's release of first-quarter GDP figures, will help answer that question.

On August 10th Tata Motors posted a forecast-beating first-quarter profit, which it said had been driven by demand for JLR's luxury models.

The one-week interbank rate has risen steadily from around 2% at the end of first quarter and is now above 4%.

Stimulus dollars helped push up fixed-asset investment by almost one-third in the first quarter, but consumer spending rose less than 10%.

In the first quarter, sales have increased about 60%, he said.

The slump in manufacturing may be abating after companies reduced inventories in the first quarter at the fastest pace on record.

Trading revenues will fall 28% from the first quarter, to $7 billion, or 29% from a year ago, he projected.

An initial campaign is expected to roll out in the first quarter of next year.

The U. S. and Japan had grown most rapidly in the fourth quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010, but Europe is now catching up.

On Thursday, Google said it hired 786 new employees in the first quarter and was just getting started.

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Retail sales in the city rose 20% in the first quarter of 2011 from a year earlier, based on the city's Census and Statistics Department.

China's economic growth slowed slightly in the first quarter, but inflation accelerated to a nearly three-year high in March.

The authors take this as evidence that the output gap may have been only 2% in the first quarter, implying little or no threat of deflation.

A decline in home buying subtracted a half percentage point off of the GDP figure, compared with about a full point in the first quarter.

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Caterpillar's results from the first quarter -- when the dollar was still falling -- illustrate how the offsets work.

Time Warner posted better-than-expected results for the first quarter.

First-quarter sales in China for BMW and Mercedes-Benz roughly doubled from a year before, while Audi posted a 77% sales increase.

Bank lending typically spikes in the first quarter of each year, although analysts say the size of 2010's increase is unusually large.

Growth in the first quarter of 2008 was a sprightly 6. 1% on a year earlier.

The crowd initially seemed to affect the Spurs. They put together a season-low first quarter, then a season-low first half.

"In the first quarter there was a clear, unique opportunity to hire a lot of available talent, " Tarrant said.

"What we believe is happening is that we're seeing customers getting rid of inventory at a slower rate than in the first quarter, " he said.

Executives have stopped short of saying GM will be profitable in its first quarter, while pointing toward strong results.

Channel inventory had been too high in the first quarter of 2011, while demand declined in the emerging markets during the second quarter.

With net income still outpacing revenue, companies also are likely to enjoy further fattening of profit margins in the first quarter.

Last week, Caterpillar reported sharply lower earnings and sales for the first quarter and lowered its outlook for the year.

Activity has also waned from the first quarter this year, when companies rushed to issue bonds to take advantage of low interest rates.

Unit shipments of microprocessors increased from the first quarter, though the average selling price declined sequentially, Intel said.

By comparison, AutoNavi had 52 million users for its mobile maps app at the end of March, according to its first-quarter report.

About 7% of China's foreign trade in the first quarter was done in transactions denominated in yuan, up from 0. 5% a year earlier.

China managed to stave off a sharp downturn in the first quarter of 2009 through a stunning increase in lending.

What's more, Goldman's profits were down in the first quarter of 2011.

Figures for this year's first quarter also are expected to be robust.

Mr. DiGiovanni said first-quarter U. S. industry vehicle sales came in better than expected.

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Of the trade settled in yuan in the first quarter of this year, 94% was foreign goods sold to China, not Chinese goods sold abroad.

The revision means the Renren. com user base rose 19% in the first quarter, compared with a previously reported rate of 32%.

ICBC supplied two-thirds of that in the first quarter alone.

Taking fewer chances with trading also might have cost Morgan Stanley business in the first quarter, according to some analysts.

China's international reserves rose nearly 26 per cent in the first quarter, to $2, 500bn, versus the same period a year ago.

Defense contractor SAIC (SAI) reported that first-quarter earnings exceeded expectations, the unit will be expected to rise today.

He warns, though, that the meagre first-quarter growth result depended on heavy government stimulus measures.

Whirlpool's first-quarter profit was $169 million, up from $164 million a year earlier on a 3% sales increase to $4. 4 billion.

Some analysts forecast the semiconductor division will slip into the red during the first quarter of next year.

That's an improvement on the record 9. 4% drop in the first quarter from a year earlier.

In 2007, Toyota outsold GM in the first quarter, but at the end of the year, GM held the lead by a tiny margin.

Not long ago, Guangzhou Guotufangguan Board announced in the first quarter of this year, the secondary property market transactions data.

"I'm worried, " admits the boss of another large retail chain, privately. "Things seem a little rougher now than in the first quarter. "

It was a pretty good first quarter for Chinese stocks. Maybe too good.

New leather multiplied by labor cost multiplied by administration cost would equal more than our first-quarter profits.

The home team fell behind by 14 in the first quarter, fought back to make it close, but could never quite overtake the Lakers.

The evidence suggests that GDP has experienced another sharp contraction in the first quarter of this year.

The Swiss bank said that, based on its latest estimates, it was "unlikely to be profitable in the first quarter. "

Both new home and nonresidential construction were a drag on first-quarter growth.

The breakdown of first-quarter output illustrates the difficulty of stimulating demand in an island of under 5m people.

Korea's Posco, the world's fourth-largest steelmaker, posted a more than fourfold jump in first-quarter profit on Tuesday.

Dawn Bridges, a spokeswoman for TimeInc, the archives in their entirety would be available in the first quarter of next year.

The subsequent bounce-back in activity has distorted data for the first quarter of 2011.

The home court fans were infuriated, as the Lakers lagged behind all the way from the very first quarter!

Their steel output in the first quarter of the year was higher than their previous record for the period.

Expectations for second-quarter growth are not much better than the measly 1. 8 per cent annualised rate of the first quarter.

But remember that China, in the first quarter of this year alone, acquired an additional $138 billion in new foreign exchange reserves.

Mr. Buffett said Berkshire recorded a first-quarter profit of $3. 6 billion, compared with a net loss of $1. 5 billion a year earlier.

Estonia's first-quarter figures showed a year-on-year decline of 15. 6%.

The sale that first quarter is chip industry normally is off-season , now year semiconductor sale appears to grow strong first quarter.

Citi plans to use the gains to repair its battered balance sheet and boost results in the first quarter of this year.

The company reported a 28% drop in net profit for its fiscal first quarter.