Each month`s report will offer a National/Four Region Overviewand ranking of the top 15 highest and lowest performing Metropolitan StatisticalAreas

Each month`s report will offer a National/Four Region Overviewand ranking of the top 15 highest and lowest performing Metropolitan StatisticalAreas (MSAs), followed by a new Micro Market Analysis all based on itsgame-changing Home Data Index toolset A few key highlights for June include:* Birmingham, Ala. Dowa Holdings (5714.T) shot up 7.4 percent to466 yen and Sumitomo Metal Mining (5713.T) advanced 5.8 percentto 1,514 yen Shipping firms gained Mitsui O.S.K. crude inventories and a U.S.government report revised global demand expectations higher,while smelters were bolstered after copper prices scaled aneight-month peak. [O/R] Trading house Mitsubishi rose 5.2 percent to 1,974 yen, whilefellow trader Marubeni Corp (8002.T) rose 5.3 percent to 478 yen.Sojitz (2768.T) surged 6.1 percent. Oil and gas field developer Inpex (1605.T) gained 3.5 percentto 833,000 yen.

Shares of smelters also climbed after copper hit eight-monthpeaks on Tuesday. [JPMORD=ECI] Oil prices raced towards $71 a barrel on Wednesday after datashowing a steep drop in U.S. [ID:nPEK63329] "If this is true, it certainly would prove to be quite aboost for the market," said Hideyuki Ishiguro, a supervisor inthe investment advisory department of Okasan Securities. Machinery stocks such as Komatsu Ltd (6301.T) advanced, evenafter data showed Japan's core machinery orders unexpectedly fell5.4 percent in April, suggesting any recovery in capitalexpenditure is still fragile. "Certainly there's still a gap between company profits andthe rally we're seeing here on the Nikkei, but a lot of retailinvestors are coming back into the market now, and there's quitea flow of funds into stocks." Buying interest was also strong ahead of Friday's settlementof Nikkei futures and options, and expectations for Chineseeconomic indicators due out later in the week helped buoy themarket as well. China's industrial production rose by 8.9 percent in May froma year earlier, well ahead of forecasts and the fastest growthsince September last year, two separate Chinese newspapersreported on Wednesday.

The broader Topixrose1.8 percent to 935.01."There's a lot of general optimism and signs that theeconomy's improving over the longer term, and not really anyreasons to sell at this point," said Hiroaki Osakabe, a fundmanager at Chibagin Asset Management. The benchmark Nikkei .N225 gained 170.63 points to9,957.45, a fresh eight-month high and within sight of thepsychologically key 10,000 line. Lines (9104.T)rising more than 5 percent after brokerage upgrades for thesector and individual companies, saying their current shareprices appeared undervalued. economy may achievepositive growth on a quarterly basis in the latter half of thisyear, the Bank of Japan's chief economist said on Wednesday "The pace of deterioration in the U.S. economy is slowing,"Kazuo Monma, head of the central bank's economic research bureau,said in a media forum, adding that various fiscal and monetarypolicy steps taken so far are gradually taking effect. But he cautioned that any rebound was unlikely to immediatelylead to a full-fledged recovery in the U.S economy (Reporting by Leika Kihara) Japan.

* Nikkei climbs 1.7 pct Stocks  |  China  |  Japan * Shippers power higher on brokerage upgrades * Hopes for Chinese indicators also boosting demand TOKYO, June 10 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei stock average rose1.7 percent on Wednesday, touching an eight-month high asresource shares such as Mitsubishi Corp (8058.T) surged on highoil and metals prices amid hopes for China's economy.Shipping firms surged, with Mitsui O.S.K. (For more stories on the Japanese economy, click [ID:nECONJP]) Japan TOKYO, June 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. We also make capital allocations to each of our facilities based on expectedEBITDA returns and establish compensation programs and bonuses for our operatingcompanies` facility level employees that are based in part upon the achievementof pre-established EBITDA targets Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc. Reconciliation of Forecasted Net Income to Forecasted EBITDA and Forecasted EBITDARYear Ending December 31, 2009(in millions) Outlook Low HighGAAP net income guidance$ 37.6 $39.8Interest expense, net of interest income36.436.9Provision for income taxes24.525.8Depreciation and amortization expense 22.523.5EBITDA guidance 121.0 126.0 Rent cost of revenue19.019.0EBITDAR guidance$ 140.0$145.0Media Contact:Abernathy MacGregor GroupDan Hilley, orInvestor Contact:Skilled Healthcare GroupDev Ghose or Shelly Hubbard949-282-5800 Copyright Business Wire 2009. EBITDAR excludesfacility rent expense and is useful in comparing leased facilities to ownedfacilities. These types of charges are dependent on factors unrelated to ourunderlying business.

Additionally, we believe that the use of EBITDA provides ameaningful and consistent comparison of our underlying business between periodsby eliminating certain items required by GAAP, which have little or nosignificance in our day-to-day operations. EBITDA and EBITDAR are useful in this regard because they do notinclude such costs as interest expense (net of interest income), income taxes,depreciation and amortization expense, which may vary from business unit tobusiness unit and period to period depending upon various factors, including themethod used to finance the business, the amount of debt that we have determinedto incur, whether a facility is owned or leased, the date of acquisition of afacility or business, the original purchase price of a facility or business unitor the tax law of the state in which a business unit operates. We typically use EBITDA and EBITDAR to compare the operatingperformance of each skilled nursing and assisted living facility, as well as toassess the performance of our operating segments: long term care services, whichincludes the operation of our skilled nursing and assisted living facilities;and ancillary services, which includes our rehabilitation therapy and hospicebusinesses. Management uses EBITDA and EBITDAR to assess the performance of our corebusiness operations, to prepare operating budgets and to measure our performanceagainst those budgets on an administrative services, segment and a facility byfacility level. EBITDA and EBITDAR are primaryindicators management uses for planning and forecasting in future periods,including trending and analyzing the core operating performance of our businessfrom period-to-period without the effect of U.S. GAAP, expenses, revenues andgains that are unrelated to the day-to-day performance of our business.