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For 2015, underlying trading profit will be £5m higher than the company's earlier forecast of about £90m.

For the three months ending in June, Apple said, it expects revenue to be $1.4 billion to $1.45 billion, down 10percentt from its previous forecast of about $1.6 billion.

Without the long-term contract, analysts say, El Paso, which reported first-quarter profits of 90 cents a share, would not have come close to meeting Wall Street's consensus forecast of about 88 cents a share in that quarter.

Nextel, based in Reston, Va., said it added more than 540,000 subscribers in the United States, falling short of the average Wall Street forecast of about 550,000 new subscribers and below some analysts' optimistic forecasts of more than 575,000 new customers.

Brazil posted a record trade surplus of $3.1 billion in May, easily beating forecasts of about $2.6 billion.

Ciena said first-quarter revenue would total $160 million, well below forecasts of about $225 million.

Mr. Juncker also forecast that Greek debt was now expected to decline to 117 percent of the country's gross domestic product by 2020, compared with earlier forecasts of about 120 percent.

Housing starts in the United States dropped to an annual rate of 529,000 units, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday, down from November's 553,000 and well below forecasts of about 550,000 in a Reuters poll.