Dutch ING bank reports 7.69 billion-euro net profit for 2006
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Dutch banking and insurance group ING has reported a 6.7-percent rise in 2006 net profit to 7.69 billion euros (10.1 billion dollars).
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Global banking giant HSBC Holdings said Monday that its net profit rose by 4.7 percent to 8.21 billion pounds in 2006 from a year earlier.
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Barclays Bank announces a record pre-tax profit of Â£7.14bn in 2006 - up by 35% on the previous year.
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The company said second-quarter profit rose 7 percent, to $460 million, helped by higher information technology sales and an insurance gain at its shipbuilding unit.
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Third-quarter net income rose 7.4 percent to $960 million, helped by strong demand in international markets. The company also raised its full-year profit outlook.
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HSBC Holdings  fell just short of analysts' expectations with a 5 rise in 2006 profits on Monday as Europe's biggest bank took a $10.6 billion hit for bad debts after problems in its U.S. mortgage lending.
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Barclays, the nation's third-biggest bank, has said that net profit surged by 33 percent to a record 4.571 billion pounds in 2006, lifted by its investment banking arm.
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Bank of America Corp. on Thursday posted third-quarter profits of $3.76 billion, or 91 cents per share, a penny ahead of Wall Street&#39;s expectations.
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The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) reports a pre-tax profit of Â£9.2bn for 2006 - 11% up on the previous year.
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German insurance giant Allianz said Thursday it booked a record net profit of 7.021 billion euros (9.2 billion dollars) in 2006, well above target, and expected to continue to grow in the coming years.
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HSBC Holdings  on Monday said its 2006 profits rose 5 percent, just short of analysts' expectations, as Europe's biggest bank took a $10.6 billion hit for bad debts after problems in its U.S. mortgage lending.
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Diversified industrial firm Ingersoll-Rand Co. on Thursday said its third-quarter profit rose 53 percent on a 15 percent gain in revenue.
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Dutch financial services group ING   took a lower than expected impairment charge of 194  million euros ($286 million) on its riskier investments in its  fourth-quarter results on Wednesday, while a stake sale helped  offset the loss.
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Spain's leading electricity provider Endesa, the target of a takoever by German utility E.ON, said on Thursday that net profit fell by 6.7 percent in 2006 to 2.97 billion euros (3.9 billion euros).
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Commerzbank reports a record profit in 2007 despite 774m euros of writedowns linked to the sub-prime mortgage crisis.
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LONDON, November 22  - Dutch banking and insurance company, ING Group (INN.ETR), has agreed to sell its Baring Asset Management division in two separate deals, for collective net gains of about â¬250 million.
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ING, the Dutch bank which bought Baring in 1995 for Â£1 after rogue trader Nick Leeson ran up losses of more than Â£800m, ending its use of the Baring name.