Profit before some costs will be $3.05 to $3.07, up from an earlier range of $2.95 to $3.02.
"The 1.71percentt loss rate of the first quarter will go higher in the near term, and is expected to exceed our earlier range of 2 to 2.5percentt".
That helped the chain raise its earnings goal for the current year to a range of $1.41 to $1.47 a share from its earlier range of $1.36 to $1.41.
Netease's stock-price drop complicates the proposed offering of a rival, Sohu.com, which raised the target price range of its initial public offering to a range of $16 to $19 a share from an earlier range of $13 to $16.
Done under the supervision of Gerry McGovern, the design plays a change on what he called the interlocking forms of earlier Range Rovers.
Mr. Brown also announced plans to double net borrowing, to $31 billion in this fiscal year, and he reduced his forecast for British economic growth this year to 1.6percentt, from an earlier range of 2percentto2.5percentcent.
The association's report comes just a week after Intel narrowed its revenue forecast for the current quarter to the upper end of its earlier range, citing surprisingly strong sales of cellphones and other electronics products.
Lucent plans to sell the operation, recently named Agere Systems, for $12 to $14 a share, compared with an earlier range of $16 to $19. Lucent had originally hoped to sell shares in Agere (pronounced a-GEAR) for $15 to $20 apiece.
Bertelsmann upgraded its outlook for the full year, saying it now expected net income to exceed €500 million, up from an earlier range of €400 million to €500 million.
One of the teams in the government taskforce has put the latest estimate at between 20,000 and 40,000 barrels a day, up from an earlier range of 12,000 to 19,000.
