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Boeing profit jumps 38 percent on higher jet deliveries


    (Reuters) - Boeing Co reported a 38 percent increase in quarterly profit, helped by rising demand for commercial aircraft.

    Net income rose to $1.34 billion, or $1.87 per share, in the first quarter ended March 31, from $965 million, or $1.28 per share, a year earlier.

    Core earnings, which exclude pension and other costs, rose to $1.97 per share from $1.76.

    Revenue rose 8 percent to $22.15 billion.

    Commercial aircraft deliveries rose 14 percent to 184.

    (Reporting by Sagarika Jaisinghani in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza)