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By Anshuman Daga and Lawrence White SINGAPORE/LONDON (Reuters) – Standard Chartered posted a forecast-beating 6% rise in first-quarter profit, sending its shares 10% higher, as the emerging-markets focused lender benefited from rising interest rates aimed at controlling inflation. The London-headquartered lender, which is focused on Asia, Africa and the Middle East, now expects income growth this year to slightly exceed earlier guidance of 5-7%, underlining how banks’ prospects are being lifted by policy rate hikes even as the global economic outlook dims. StanChart’s Hong Kong-listed shares j…