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Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (FIS) reported an 18% decrease in second-quarter profit as international revenue dropped and the company said the environment remained difficult.

Shares rose 4.2% in late trading to $22.30 as results topped analysts' expectations and the provider of technological and processing assistance to banks and financial institutions boosted its full-year earnings guidance. The company remains confident its actions to curtail the recession's effects have helped.

Fidelity National now expects a profit of $1.71 to $1.75, up from its longstanding view of $1.60 to $1.66. Revenue is expected to increase "modestly" on a constant-currency basis but "decline slightly" on a reported basis. Analysts were predicting revenue would fall 1% this year.

The company said the forecast still doesn't include any impacts on its planned $2.9 billion purchase of financial-information-technology company Metavante Technologies Inc. (MV). Fidelity National has said the deal would add to 2010 earnings and noted Tuesday it would update its guidance once the transaction closed, which should be sometime in the fourth quarter.

For the second quarter, the company reported earnings fell to $59.2 million, or 31 cents a share, from $71.9 million, or 37 cents a share, a year earlier. Excluding acquisition and other impacts, earnings rose to 42 cents from 34 cents.

Revenue slipped 4% to $834.8 million, but was down just 0.4% excluding currency fluctuations.

Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters were expecting earnings of 36 cents a share on revenue of $832 million.

International revenue decreased 14% but would have increased 1.4% on a constant-currency basis.

-By David Benoit, Dow Jones Newswires; 212-416-2458; david.benoit@dowjones.com;