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The first Boeing 787 Dreamliner should be shipped in the first quarter of 2011 because of a delay in availability of engines, said Friday the aircraft manufacturer.

The delivery date for the Dreamliner has been delayed, as these engines are necessary to the ultimate test flights, will be available until the fall, said Boeing.

The U.S. group is working with Rolls-Royce for faster delivery.

Last month, Boeing announced that the first delivery of the aircraft could be delayed into the early weeks of 2011, due to a series of difficulties.

However, the group said on Friday that the new schedule would not impact on the group's financial forecasts.

The testing schedule of flights will actually preserved Boeing said.

Norsk Hydro believes that the aluminum market may have reached its highest level this year in the second quarter and maintained its forecast of growth of 12% of its markets upstream and downstream in 2010.

The Norwegian producer of aluminum has made a profit before interest and taxes (EBIT) current of 1.1 billion kroner (137 million euros) in the second quarter, after losing 618 million kronor last year on same period. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected a profit of 900 million kroner.

"The numbers are very solid," said Samir Bendriss, an analyst with Pareto."They are particularly successful in the upstream activity, with higher prices, higher volumes and lower costs than expected."

The group assigns him, this performance to increase its volumes, the strength of its margins and tight control of costs.

"We still anticipate that demand in our major markets upstream and downstream will grow by about 12% in 2010," he said.

However, Norsk Hydro estimates that the global market for aluminum is oversupplied despite the recovery in demand linked to the moderate recovery of economic growth.

"There are many elements that suggest that the second quarter will be stronger in 2010", said group general manager, Svein Richard Brandtzaeg, at a press conference.

The group said world demand for primary aluminum, excluding China, has increased in the second quarter to an annualized level of consumption of around 24 million tonnes, while production outside of China increased 25 million tons on an annualized basis.

"Demand should be stable in the third quarter but with a normal seasonal decline," said Norsk Hydro.

The Norwegian group also warned that its results for its underlying activities of alumina (aluminum oxide) and raw materials are expected to fall in the second half after a solid six months, due to an expected drop courses alumina and rising costs of bauxite.

"The decline (will be) following the expected decline in margins," the group said.

Around 9:45 GMT, was virtually unchanged at 34.96 crowns.

Johnson & Johnson Tuesday reported a quarterly revenue well below expectations and has revised downward its forecast of annual profit for the second time in a year due to repeated withdrawals from the market painkiller Tylenol and other group of drugs available without prescription.

By mid-session on Wall Street, the title of group care products and U.S. health yielded 2.59% to 58.02 dollars while the Dow Jones, including Johnson & Johnson is, retreated from 0 84%.

The company said in the wake of its results have received a subpoena from the attorney general's office in Philadelphia as part of its withdrawal, without saying more.

For their part, the federal prosecutor's office did not confirm or comment on this procedure.

Johnson & Johnson said that global sales of its consumer goods were down 5.4% over the second quarter to 3.6 billion dollars.

The sales performance was mainly affected by the withdrawal, on April 30 last, a forty drugs used in the treatment of benign childhood diseases.

This decision was taken following a report showing that U.S. health authorities these products had been contaminated by dust and dirt during their manufacture in the factory of J & J in Fort Washington (Pennsylvania), finally closed end April.

The withdrawal of the products involved have cut sales of approximately $ 200 million, said Chief Financial Officer Dominic Caruso during a conference call, adding that closing the plant in Fort Washington is likely to weigh up 600 million dollars in annual sales.

The total turnover of Johnson & Johnson has also been weighed down by a slowdown in sales growth of its medical tools and diagnostic instruments.

The turnover stood at 15.33 billion dollars (0.6%) while analysts on average expected 15.64 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I / B / E / S.

Net income rose to 3.45 billion dollars (2.68 billion euros), or $ 1.23 per share against 3.21 billion ($ 1.15 per share) a year ago.

Excluding items, J & J posted earnings per share of $ 1.21, a level consistent with the average forecast of analysts.

The group has now said it expects earnings per share of between 4.65 and $ 4.75 throughout the year against a previous estimate of 4.80 to 4.90 dollars.

To explain this further revision downward, Johnson & Johnson raised the closure of the plant, which is currently undergoing a costly up to standard, and the pressure existing in Europe on the prices of its prescription drugs .

The Japanese consumer confidence improved for the sixth straight month in June, reaching its highest level in almost three years, a sign of an increase in economic recovery in the archipelago.

The index measuring the sentiment of households, which reflects their views on income and employment, reached 43.5 in June, its highest since September 2007, according to figures released Tuesday by government departments. In May, the index was at 42.8.

The government has revised upwards its opinion on the mood and now believes it is oriented towards improvement.

The index remains below 50, meaning that pessimists still outnumber optimists.

The Nikkei closed up 0.52% Friday, and closed the week on a 4% gain, its largest weekly increase in seven months.

The Nikkei index closed at 9585.32 points and the broader TOPIX, took 0.02% to 861.21 points.

Japanese stocks have benefited from renewed investor confidence, new optimism for the resumption of the U.S. economy and the euro area.

The courses have been particularly supported by the exporters, thus earning the title Canon 1.02% to 3,480 yen on expectations of a tripling of operating income to about 182 billion yen (1.62 billion euros) .

The title however Inpex has weighed on prices, registering losses of up to 14% on the session to finally close down 12.82% after announcing an equity issue of 6.7 billion dollars threatening to dilute the value of shares already issued more than 50%.

Christine Lagarde wants a "pause" in gas prices until January 1 next time an audit determines the relevance of the new method of calculation applied by the Regulatory Commission (CRE).

CRE authorized Thursday GDF Suez to raise gas tariffs from 1 July, after an initial increase of nearly 10% from 1 April. Higher rates for individuals oscillate between 2% and 4.7%.Since the start of the year, gas prices have increased by about 15% in France.

"I hope that the CRE do an audit of this formula because I'm quite surprised at the speed of execution and I wish that as a result of this audit, we determine if the formula is good," said Minister of the Economy Friday on France Inter.

"By then, I hope the prices remain unchanged, that is to say that until January 1, we make a full break in considering any further action until the audit results are not provided, "she added.

The CRE noted Thursday in a statement that his tariff had been an audit on which it will deliberate by September.

The CRE and GDF Suez justify rising gas prices by higher oil prices, which are indexed to gas prices and the weaker euro, which significantly increased imports of oil, sold in euros.

"The crisis is not behind us," explained Friday government spokesman Luc Chatel, RTL, noting that gas prices "have fallen by about 11% last year.

The European aerospace group EADS expects its sales in 2010 could be higher than expected due to the decline of the euro on foreign exchange markets, as its chief financial officer.

In an interview published in the Financial Times Deutschland, Hans Peter Ring said that the coverage measures taken by the exchange company will have an impact on revenue projections from 2012.

"But it seems that this will be different about our income because we have more volatility. Therefore, our revenues could be better than what was previously expected," he said.

In its projections for 2010, EADS expects stable results over the previous year based on an exchange rate of $ 1.40 per euro.The single European currency fell back to about $ 1.20.

In the long term, said Sunday the chairman of the board of EADS Bodo Übber in the Welt am Sonntag, a weak euro is favorable to the company as it produces in the euro area (and therefore pays a large portion of its costs euro) and its sales are mainly denominated in dollars.