Profit gained in part on lower costs for sugar, potato starch and palm oil compared with a year earlier.
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But even as money is lost, epistemological profit is gained, distilled through the learning effects of direct experience.
It is a net loss for the company willing to take the risk, no matter how much profit is gained from tariffs protecting them from foreigners.
Operating profit surged 22% as margins gained 0.1 percentage points to 21.4%.
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Its profit increased 22% in 2012 as shares gained 60%.
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Last year NDTV launched NDTV Profit, a business-news channel that has gained enough traction to compete with CNBC-TV18, the category's long-entrenched leader.
The other sharp equities move in Asia was in the Philippines, where the PSE Composite dropped 3.2% as strong first quarter growth data beat expectations, triggering profit-taking in a market that has already gained 21% so far in 2013.
Halliburton ( HAL) stock gained in pre-market trading after it announced 1Q 2011 profit had more than doubled quarter-on-quarter.
Rival and fellow Dow component Merck, which reported a steep profit decline of its own on acquisition-related charges last week, gained 1.2% Tuesday.
Also in Hong Kong, developer Henderson Land gained 3.0% after the company announced that its net profit rose 28% on-year in 2012.
Shares in discount retailer Dollar General gained Monday after the company reported higher-than-expected third quarter profit and raised its guidance for the full year, saying that more shoppers turned up and spent more in the third quarter.
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News Corp. gained 0.9% in Sydney after reporting its fiscal second-quarter profit was up 65% from a year earlier on increased earnings at cable-television networks and film and television studios.
Huaneng Power gained 4.6% in Hong Kong after reporting late Tuesday that its first quarter net profit almost tripled on-year to 2.55 billion yuan.
Rackspace Hosting gained 6.22, or 13%, to 55.45, after fourth-quarter profit rose 85%.
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