Prestige also had a smaller debt extinguishment loss in the current quarter.

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In May it also pulled out of South Korea, where it had a loss-making network of 16 stores.

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He said brain scans had shown that hearing loss in patients was also down to the way a dying brain tried to handle sound.

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It also said it expects to make a smaller loss in the first half than it had previously forecast.

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SemiLEDs (LEDS) posted a a second quarter loss that was less than analysts had predicted, but also said that the second quarter results will be weak due to oversupply pressuring margins.

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The government also announced that the economy had added 89, 000 jobs in August, a large improvement from the net loss of 4, 000 jobs it had first estimated.

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