Article: Business Briefing.(Business)

Byline: Rocky staff and wire reports

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Apple's 2nd-quarter profit soars 36%

Apple Inc.'s fiscal second-quarter profit jumped 36 percent on blistering sales of Macintosh computers - and beat Wall Street estimates - but its stock dipped on a lower-than-expected profit forecast.

The Cupertino-based company earned $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per share, in its second quarter, which ended March 29. That's 9 cents per share better than what analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial were expecting on average.

During the same period last year, Apple earned $770 million, or 87 cents per share.

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