Halliburton Co. said Monday its first-quarter profit jumped 5.8%, due  mainly to "exceptional" demand growth in the Middle East and Asia for its oil-  and gas-production services.
 The company cautioned, however, that it is grappling with ever  higher operating costs and warned that weakness in its North Sea and Nigerian  operations, and fracturing activity in Russia, could continue to hurt its  quarterly results throughout the year. 
 For the quarter ended March 31, the Houston-based engineering  company said its net income rose to $584 million, or 64 cents a share, from $552  million, or 54 cents a share, a year earlier. 
 Analysts polled by FactSet Research expected, on average,  first-quarter earnings of 66 cents a share. 
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