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2005 U.S. Economic Events & Analysis

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aber General Electric überraschend stark,rettet die Stimmung.General Electric reported an unusually strong first quarter. Earnings rose 25% from a year ago to $4 billion, or 38 cents a share, on a 19% jump in revenue to $39.81 billion. Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call had been forecasting earnings of 37 cents a share on revenue of $37.96 billion. The industrial conglomerate and sometime economic proxy guided full-year results in line. Shares of GE were up 26 cents, or 0.7%, to $35.90 on Instinet.
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Citigroup's (C:NYSE - news - research) first-quarter earnings edged up 3% from a year ago and the company authorized up to $15 billion in additional share buybacks.

The world's largest financial institution earned $5.44 billion, or $1.04 a share, in the quarter, compared with earnings of $5.27 billion, or $1.01 a share, last year. On a continuing operations basis, earnings rose 3% from a year ago to $5.17 billion, or 99 cents a share.

Analysts were calling for earnings of $1.02 a share in the latest quarter, according to Thomson Financial.