In March Hikari Tsushin reported a net gain for the first nine months of fiscal 2012, stemming losses in the same period the prior year.

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Lloyds has tried to minimise the contraction in the provision of vital credit by shrinking what it calls its non-core portfolio of assets - and in the three months to the end of March, it says it increased important lending to small businesses by a net 4%, compared with a contraction in the overall market of 4%.

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When you think about the job growth that we saw in March, the figures released on Friday, and the fact that 120, 000 net jobs were created in March, and while that was a reduction from what we had seen in the three previous months it was still substantially higher than the average job creation under George W. Bush, even if you take out the recession.

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Mitsubishi Motors has forecast a net loss of 472bn yen in its current financial year to March 2005.

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Okuda has presented plans to Hon Hai positing a return to operating profits in the period October 2012 to end March 2013 and bottom line net income in the fiscal year ended March 2014.

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