It comes as the airline shares rose 10% on Wednesday as it increased its full-year profit forecast.
Boeing raises its full-year profit forecast this morning, saying it expects deliveries of commercial airplanes to grow.
As a result of the transactions, the company also lowered its profit forecast for 2011 and 2012.
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Electronic Arts shares rallied this morning following an upbeat profit forecast and news of additional Star Wars games.
Oracle also set a profit forecast of 48 to 50 cents per share for Q3, again topping expectations.
However, it cut its full-year profit forecast to 370bn yen, compared with its previous projection of 375bn yen.
BBC: Honda sees quarterly profits rise but cuts annual forecast
Japanese companies announce publicly an annual profit forecast and revise the forecast quarterly.
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Despite this, Nissan maintained its 340bn yen profit forecast for the full year.
Hewlett-Packard made headlines as well, posting weak profit forecast as CEO Meg Whitman tries to turn the company around.
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March 19, Sony-Ericsson sharply revised its first-quarter profit forecast, citing slow sales of its mid- and high-end handsets in Europe.
It is the second time in a space of four months that the firm has lowered its full-year profit forecast.
BBC: Honda sees quarterly profits rise but cuts annual forecast
Japanese game giant Nintendo has cut its profit forecast for the year by a third, despite reporting much-reduced first-half losses.
Kidron lifted his FY 2012 profit forecast for the company based on higher expectations for sales of both iPads and iPhones.
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Ryanair has increased its profit forecast for the full year after a better-than-expected performance in the last three months of 2012.
Pepsi offered a full-year profit forecast that matched Wall Street projections.
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Genting's shares sell for 19 times its Thomson IBES 2008 profit forecast.
The second news flash is that Nintendo has cut its profit forecast by 80%, which would explain the necessity for drastic action.
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For 2012, he cuts his profit forecast to 25 cents from 40 cents, and now sits well below the Street at 56 cents.
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Japan Airlines has raised its profit forecast despite a decline in earnings for the first three quarters and the grounding of its Dreamliner fleet.
Overall revenues for the quarter ending September were virtually unchanged at 1.789 trillion yen and Sony left its full year pre-tax profit forecast unchanged at 310bn yen.
Earlier this month, the Osaka-based firm issued a lower-than-expected profit forecast.
Brunswick, an American maker of pleasure boats, has narrowed its profit forecast to the lower end of the range, saying that SARS clouded the economic outlook.
The Japanese carmaker raised its annual profit forecast in November.
Honda Motor already lowered its profit forecast, blaming Chinese exports.
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Among individual stocks, Japanese vehicle maker Mitsubishi Motors Corp. jumped more than 16 percent after raising its group net profit forecast for the year ending March 2013, Kyodo News reported.
While many psychic, physical and economic scars remain in Japan, Toyota reported a 23-percent rise in quarterly net profit this week and raised its annual profit forecast by 10 percent.
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Macy's raised its profit forecast for the fiscal fourth quarter and reported upbeat sales, signaling its recent strength continued through the holidays even as January same-store sales fell short of views.
Q-Cells ( QCLSF - news - people ), the world's largest maker of solar cells, beat first-quarter profit expectations but lowered its 2009 profit forecast for the third time since December.
In corporate news, Target edged up 0.1% on solid quarterly figures, as Wal-Mart fell 0.4% on concerns about its profit forecast and expansion of an internal bribery probe past Mexico to Brazil, China and India.
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