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Sony exceeds targets

Sony Corp, the world's second-largest consumer-electronics maker, said its US sales of liquid-crystal-display televisions and Blu-ray players exceeded expectations in December and demand has held up since the holidays. "The end of December was pretty robust for some products," Mike Fasulo, Sony Electronics' head of marketing in the US, said in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

"LCDs were very robust at the end of December and also Blu-ray players were very strong."