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U.S. stocks closed off their lows Monday but still in negative territory for the sixth out of seven sessions, as investors continued to take profits and in response to international terrorist attacks over the weekend.

Vodafone reported a 19 percent increase in first-half underlying earnings and announced a 2.5 billion pounds share buyback programme. Earnings rose 19 percent to 6.62 billion pounds, compared with 10 analyst forecasts ranging from 6.15 billion to 6.78 billion. The interim dividend rose 20 percent to 0.9535 pence.Burberry posted higher than expected first-half earnings growth and appointed Stacey Cartwright as new chief financial officer to replace Mike Metcalf. The company notched up a 21 percent rise in earnings to 66.9 million pounds, up from 55.1 million last year.EasyJet reported a worse-than-expected 28 percent fall in annual pre-tax profit but said it was cautiously optimistic about its performance this fiscal year. They said its fall in pre-tax profit to 52 million pounds for the year to September 30 reflected the Iraq conflict in the first half, the costs of integrating the acquisition of rival budget carrier Go and other one-off items.

Dixons said it had seen no pick up in the pace of sales growth though profit margins were still slightly ahead year-on-year. Some analysts had expected sales growth to have picked up since the September trading update.

GWR radio said its first-half profit climbed on strong local advertising, with the improving trends expected to continue in November. The company, which owns Classic FM, said pre-tax profit for the six months to September 30 was 6.4 million pounds from 2.2 million pounds in the year-earlier period. "Group radio advertising revenues were up by 16 percent year on year in October and at this stage we expect that these revenues will be up by 9 percent year on year in November," the company said in a statement.

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