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Yesterday, Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell reported sharp profit increases.
"The sharp profit increases should be taken with a grain of salt," said Hironari Nozaki, an analyst at HSBC Securities in Tokyo.
General Electric, 3M and Caterpillar are all expected to announce sharp profit declines in the next week, as several industrial companies release fourth-quarter earnings reports.
Europe's largest fresh fruit distributor, Fyffes, reported sharp profit growth in the first half as it finished writing off a failed Internet venture and benefited from a crackdown on illegal banana imports in Italy.
Roddy Davidson, an analyst at Shore Capital, said the results did not appear to contain any significant surprises, coming soon after January's warning of sharp profit falls in 2015 and 2016.
The efforts are supposed to help Motorola recover from a sharp profit slowdown that came into view after the third quarter of last year, when the company said its fourth-quarter profit would fall far short of expectations.
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Amgen reported a sharp increase in profit for the third quarter, while GlaxoSmithKline and Wyeth reported a slight drop in their profits.
Sharp estimates its net profit for the year ending March 31 will rise 24percentt from last year, to 75 billion yen.
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