Total supply rose 1% year-on-year to 1, 051.6 metric tons, according to the quarterly trend report.
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Panasonic Corp. rose 1.5% after announcing a new president in an effort to return to profitability.
China Eastern Airlines rose 1.7%, Air China gained 1.9%, and Cathay Pacific Airways added 3.5%.
In the financial sector, Bank of China rose 1.9% and New China Life Insurance rallied 3.3%.
Regular season attendance rose 1% this year (although empty seats continue to plague NBA owners).
The main indexes in France, Germany, Spain and Brazil rose 1 percent or more.
Household consumption in Brazil rose 1% in the second quarter, while imports rose 6.1%.
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The Stoxx Europe 600 rallied 1.3%, while Germany's DAX rose 1.9% and France's CAC-40 rallied 2%.
In addition, orders for U.S. durable goods rose 1.6% in June, also exceeding expectations.
Rolls-Royce sales rose 1% during the year to 3, 575 vehicles, up from 3, 538 in 2011.
Net income rose 1% in the quarter before that, and 1.5% in the first quarter.
South Korea's Kospi Composite rose 1% and Singapore's Straits Times Index was up 0.8%.
Elsewhere in the discount retail industry, Family Dollar Stores rose 1.1% and Dollar Tree gained 0.9%.
In Europe, shares in Swiss Re rose 1.3% and Munich Re shares were also higher.
Business inventories, meantime, rose 1% in January, higher than expectations for a 0.5% increase.
March silver gained 2.74%, while January platinum rose 1.75% and gold saw a 0.5% drop.
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China reported its consumer price index rose 1.8% in July, from a year earlier.
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The total value of sales in June rose 1.5% versus a year ago, the BRC said.
However, on a constant-exchange-rate basis, both total sales and comparable store sales rose 1 percent.
While sales fell nationwide in December, average prices rose 1.6%, compared with the year-earlier period.
France's Cac40 rose 2.3%, Germany's Dax rose 1.0% and the UK's FTSE 100 gained 0.8%.
Its shares rose 6.4% in New York, while BP shares trading in New York rose 1.7%.
But household spending rose 1.5% on year in April, lower than a 2.8% rise forecast by economists.
The parent to Red Lobster, Olive Garden and the LongHorn Steakhouse said overall same-restaurant sales rose 1.8%.
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Same-store sales at the front-end of the drugstore chain rose 2.7%, while same-store pharmacy sales rose 1.2%.
Despite rising wages, consumer price inflation is still falling: prices rose 1.4% in the year to March.
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2012 rose 1.3% to 76 cents per share, implying year-over-year growth of 25.3%.
In Germany, import prices rose 1.6% last month, the third increase of more than 1% in four months.
In economic headlines beyond the retail-sales data, February import prices rose 1.1%, above expectations for a 0.6% rise.
Separately, the January import price index rose 1.7%, higher than expected, while the export price index rose 1.2%.
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