<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0e42013c-2d72-4476-be17-a3a7c31f3cc6/11F963B5-DD07-43ED-8392-372640354CA2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4bbd740a-7622-11de-9e59-00144feabdc0.html" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4bbd740a-7622-11de-9e59-00144feabdc0.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ft.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4bbd740a-7622-11de-9e59-00144feabdc0.html"><P>Corporate America took another step along its long road to recovery on Tuesday as companies from the industrial heartland of Peoria to the technology hubs of Silicon Valley reported stronger-than-expected profits and bullish outlooks.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4bbd740a-7622-11de-9e59-00144feabdc0.html"><P>The wave of positive second-quarter results from <B><A href="http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/performance.asp?s=us:CAT" symbol="us:CAT">Caterpillar</A></B>, DuPont and <B><A href="http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/performance.asp?s=us:AAPL" symbol="us:AAPL">Apple</A></B>, which came a week after several banks beat analysts’ expectations, fuelled investors’ hopes for a rebound in the US economy. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4bbd740a-7622-11de-9e59-00144feabdc0.html"><P>Its upbeat comments fuelled hopes that the global industrial economy was recovering. The manufacturer is a bellwether of the US economy but also heavily relies on overseas markets.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4bbd740a-7622-11de-9e59-00144feabdc0.html"><P>Chemical group DuPont and drugmaker Merck both reported a drop in second-quarter profits, but their earnings exceeded Wall Street’s forecasts. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4bbd740a-7622-11de-9e59-00144feabdc0.html"><P>“Everyone is now looking for growth in the economy and people who were under-invested in stocks are being forced back into the market,” said Anthony Conroy, head equity trader for BNY ConvergEx.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/11F963B5-DD07-43ED-8392-372640354CA2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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