It was the smallest gain reported since the attacks.
That is less than July's 3.6percentt year-over-year increase and the 5.8 percent gain reported in August 1999.
The second-quarter gain reported on Wednesday compares with net income of $3 billion in the same period last year.
In the manufacturing report, orders to factories for big-ticket goods fell 1.2percentt in February, unwinding part of the 1.9percentt gain reported in January.
MIM said it expected profit of 90 cents a share, up from an earlier estimate of 86 cents before a 3-cent gain reported in the first quarter.
China's exports rose 21 percent, but that paled in comparison to the 47 percent gain reported by South Korea and the 77 percent increase in shipments from Taiwan.
But exclude the first day of trading, and that shrivels to an 11% gain, reports Greenwich, Conn.-based Renaissance Capital, which runs an IPO fund.
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt uses a new book to call China an Internet menace that backs cyber-crime for economic and political gain, reports say.
As of Monday, R&B Artist R. Kelly's mansion loss was J.P. Morgan Chase's gain, reported the Chicago Sun-Times.
To do so, six-month weight and MUAC gain reported in similar cohorts were used [ 27, 28].
