STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson reported its second consecutive quarterly profit on Friday and stuck by a forecast for only slight volume growth in the global handset market this year.
SONY (JP6758.TK)ERICSSON (ERICB.ES) owned jointly by Ericsson and Sony Corp., posted a second-quarter pretax profit of 31 million euros ($39.73 million) versus a forecast of a profit of 16.5 million euros in a Reuters poll. The firm made a loss of 283 million euros in the same quarter in 2009.
"Sony Ericsson maintains a forecast of slight growth in units in the global handset market in 2010," the company said in a statement.
