 Tesco PLC LSE:TSCO traded even better than expected over Christmas prompting Shore Capital to increase its full-year earnings forecasts again. Tesco, in its fiscal third-quarter update, said it expects retail operating profit to be slightly above the top-end of its previous 2.5-2.6bn guidance range while the supermarkets banks operating profit is tipped to be between 160mln and 200mln, due to the effect of more favourable economic forecasts the companys provision for expected credit losses. 