The National Association of Realtors also announced on Thursday that the pace of existing home sales in the United States rose in May to a 4.99 million-unit annual rate, slightly beating Wall Street's expectations.

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Widely followed shipping company DryShips posted third quarter earnings after the bell on Monday, beating estimates despite taking a big hit on failed interest rate swaps.

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The economy of the Philippines grew at a rate of 6.6% in 2012, beating government targets of 5%-6% growth.

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Don't buy a fund that greatly exceeds this turnover rate unless it delivered really outstanding results--beating the market by a wide margin over a long period and with the same manager at the helm most of that time.

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On Thursday July 31st, the Commerce Department announced that America's economy grew at a 2.4% annual rate in the second quarter, the fastest rate since the third quarter last year, and handily beating Wall Street's expectations of around 1.5%.

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The economy added 236, 000 jobs in February, beating the consensus estimate of 163, 000 by a wide margin as the unemployment rate fell to 7.7%, as my colleague Steve Schaefer reported.

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Singapore's Straits Times Index gained 1.4% to 2, 298.71 after Singapore's government said its economy rose at an annualized and seasonally adjusted rate of 20.4% in the second quarter, the fastest expansion in nearly six years, beating market expectations.

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