It will announce its results for the current quarter soon after the new year.

(Indeed, three weeks later, the company announced a $499.3 million net loss for the third quarter.)

The company is expected to announce final results for the quarter on July 27.

Orient Express announced a loss of $5 million for the first quarter of 1991.

It also announced higher earnings for the quarter and year.

Then, on Jan. 19, eBay announced its results for the fourth quarter of 2004.

On Thursday, it announced a $752.9 million loss for the third quarter of this year.

He said the company would announce record profits later this month for the first fiscal quarter, which ended Sept. 30.

As of yesterday, 66 companies had announced their earnings expectations for the third quarter and about 54 percent of them were negative.

Yesterday, the big Internet portal announced better-than-expected financial results for the fourth quarter of 2002.