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Carrefour with 82 million USD profit for the half year

The French retail chain retail Carrefour has issued a profit in the first half of 2010. This is mainly due to the good performance of emerging markets, which offsets the negative effects seen in Western Europe. Of Carrefour profit was 82 million after the first six months of last year was reported a loss of 58 million. Do sales increased by 5.9 percent to 48.9 billion EUR, reported Wall Street Journal. Operating profit for the first half was 1.1 billion following last year were achieved 1.02 billion. Preliminary expectations were for an operating profit of 1.05 billion. This allows the company, which is the second largest chain of retail sales in the world after the American Wal-Mart, to confirm its forecasts for operating profit in 2010. It is a positive result of 3.1 billion. Over the last six months of Carrefour shares have increased by 1,5 per cent of the exchange in Paris. This presentation is much better than the presentation of the overall market as the main CAC 40 index lost 7.5 per cent for the period.