Separately, cricket board chief Narayanaswamy Srinivasan ruled out an investigation into India's poor overseas performance in Tests.

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And given box-office figures from the first week, it can predict subsequent domestic and overseas performance much more accurately than that.

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The way the corporations see it, currency movements have little to do with earnings performance overseas.

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Still, Stephen Wood, chief market strategist at Russell Investments, said that the weak performance overseas only makes U.S. markets look more attractive.

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After many years of stellar, U.S.-fund-beating performance, overseas stock funds recorded a dismal 2011.

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Too often England lose the first Test of an overseas tour, and it was that hopeless batting performance in Jamaica that cost them again this time.

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Yet the overseas success of "A Separation" has improved its performance in Iranian theaters, where the film had been a box-office hit and theaters extended its run after the movie won awards at international festivals.

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There will also be a review of the Performance and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB) test for overseas doctors.

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Private consumption, government spending and overseas trade all detracted from Germany's end-of-year performance.

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The company went out of its way to cite the "strong" performance of its white-meat chicken items, along with better-than-expected overseas results, in announcing a 5% same-store sales jump in December from a year ago.

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