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China's official purchasing managers' index, or P.M.I., released by the government's statistics bureau, showed that factory output had grown more slowly than expected in January, with a reading of 50.4 points, easing from 50.6 in December and below a forecast for a nine-month high of 50.9.
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The September guidance was itself a reduction from a forecast for profit of slightly below the £322m reported in the previous financial year.
But capital expenditure fell 0.1 percent, below a market forecast for a 0.7 percent increase.
Sales at stores open at least a year were unchanged, below analysts' forecast for a 1percentt gain.
The report set off talk that Friday's payrolls data from the Labor Department would show the economy added 125,000 to 150,000 jobs last month, well below a Reuters consensus forecast for 170,000.
The company, based in Columbus, Ohio, forecast second-quarter earnings of 40 cents to 45 cents a share, below analysts' average forecast for earnings of 50 cents a share, according to Thomson Reuters.
The drop was the first decline in output since June 2009 and was well below the median forecast for a 0.5 percent increase.
The company lost one cent per share, well below analysts' consensus forecast for a profit of 12 cents per share.
The trade surplus rose to $13.1 billion from $11.4 billion in April, but that was far below the forecast for $18.6 billion in a Reuters poll.
