Shares in Taiheiyo Cement Corp opened lower Monday, weighed down by the firm's announcement on Friday that it recorded a JPY490m (US$6.3m) operating profit for the April-June quarter, an improvement over the previous year's JPY1.2bn loss but lower than the JPY1bn profit predicted by The Nikkei.
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