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Revenue rose 2.8 percent to $8.18 billion, from $7.96 billion. Strong sales in emerging markets outweighed declining revenue in the United States where it faced tough generic competition for its products.

Eli Lilly & Co. launched its own drug, Effient, last summer, but it has faced an uphill climb with sales of $22.9 million in the last quarter.

LONDON – AstraZeneca PLC posted a 22 percent rise in second quarter net profit on Thursday as it also revealed that a key new drug — its blood thinner Brilinta — has been given a thumbs up by an advisory committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The approval from the FDA committee came despite revelations earlier this week that study results in the U.S. did not match the positive reports from abroad. An international, 18,G-Star,000-patient study conducted by AstraZeneca showed that patients taking Brilinta versus Plavix were less likely to experience various heart-related problems, including heart attack and stroke. But U.S. patients studied were more likely to report heart problems while taking Brilinta.

The blood thinner market is currently dominated by Sanofi-Aventis SA and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.’s blockbuster drug Plavix. With global sales of $9.1 billion in 2009, Plavix was the world’s second-best selling drug behind Pfizer Inc.’s cholesterol drug Lipitor.

The Anglo-Swedish drugmaker raised its full-year earnings forecast after reporting a net profit of $2.1 billion for the three months to June 30, compared with a $1.72 billion profit in the same period a year ago.

In another win for the company, FDA advisory committee members have voted 7 to 1 to recommend the approval of Brilinta in patients with acute coronary syndrome, or blocked arteries. The FDA usually follows the advice of its advisory committee.

“Our second quarter performance reflects continued strong growth in our emerging markets and good performance for key brands Crestor, Seroquel and Symbicort,” Chief Executive Officer David Brennan said on Thursday.

The positive news led the London-based company to lift its full year earnings forecast for the fourth time, this time taking it to $6.35-$6.65 per share from the $6.05-$6.35 per share it predicted when it announced first quarter earnings in April.

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Real estate investment trusts are up well over 100 percent off their March 2009 lows, to the point where we believe they are priced on the rich side of a fair range. We are not willing to call them overpriced just yet, though. When I compare what real estate and REITs can deliver over the long haul to how corporate bonds are priced, REITs look pretty fairly valued. The average yield is 3.5 percent.

Among mall REITs, we have a buy on Simon Property Group (AMEX:SGB – News). It is the 500-pound gorilla in malls. Like Avalon, it's the crme de la crme of its sector, and it isn't much more richly valued than its peers. I can buy Simon at basically the same type of pricing as an average mall REIT.

When I look at REITs vs. stocks, though, they don't look attractive. REITs have been trading at a price-earnings ratio of about 20, while the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index has traded at a p-e closer to 14. These numbers are usually a lot closer to each other.

In hotels our biggest name is Starwood (NYSE:HOT – News). It benefits from the fact that the franchising model is doing quite well — if only because we are seeing an awful lot of brand growth in foreign markets, particularly Asia, Turkey, and Brazil.

The Stats: Mike Kirby is chairman and director of research at Green Street Advisors, a real estate research firm based in Newport Beach, Calif. Kirby co-founded Green Street in 1985. The performance of Green Street's buy recommendations has been an annualized 25.7 percent from February 1993 to May 2010.

Now it's pretty easy to see that the level of distress will be fairly low. Commercial real estate had been referred to as the next shoe to drop for the economy. It's just not going to be that kind of issue. Property prices are up 20 percent from their trough, and that has done a lot to mitigate the problem. Financing markets are working a lot better.

Historically, this has been a signal to load up on stocks other than REITs. We are not pounding the table on any REIT sector. Our list of buys is stock-specific. Avalon Bay (NYSE:AVB – News) — which owns high-quality apartments in good coastal markets like New York and the Bay Area — is one of the best apartment companies in the country. It has been helped by the decline in homeownership. I think people are going to be very wary of the old American dream as it was once defined. If the homeownership ratio stays at or below where it is — a good bet — that creates a good set of dynamics. Job growth and declining homeownership drive apartment demand. I assume we're turning a corner on job growth, so you may have both dynamics working.

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