China banks witness profit surge
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Half-year profits at two of China's biggest banks surge on the back of higher lending and rising fees.
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Standard Chartered, the emerging markets bank, has reported on Tuesday that 2006 net profits soared by almost one fifth, helped by strong economic growth in its key Asian markets.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc.  on Thursday said fourth-quarter profit rose as its fixed-income, currency and commodities business soared while a rebounding stock market boosted investment banking.
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Goldman Sachs on Thursday said fourth-quarter profit rose 23 per cent as its fixed-income, currency and commodities business soared while a rebounding stock market boosted investment banking.
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Asian stocks in the shipping, steel and trading sectors bounced higher Friday after China said its economy expanded 9.1 percent in the year to the end of September.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS.N and  Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. LEH.N on Tuesday posted  higher-than-expected quarterly profits, fueled by surprising  strength in bond trading and investment banking growth.
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NEW YORK -- Investment banking firm Morgan Stanley said yesterday that its third-quarter profit surged on stronger investment banking and trading business, surpassing analysts' expectations.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc.  and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.  on Tuesday posted higher-than-expected quarterly profits, fueled by surprising strength in bond trading and investment banking growth.
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Chinese stocks rose to a fresh record high Friday as foreign currency shares rebounded from losses the day before.
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The China Life Insurance Company, the countryâs largest life insurer, said its first-half profit had more than doubled, topping forecasts. It was helped by investment gains in a strong stock market and rising premiums in the fast-growing Chinese economy. China Life said it earned 23.29 billion yuan ($3.08 billion) in the first half, compared with 8.97 billion yuan in the period a year earlier. China Lifeâs net investment income more than doubled, to 24 billion yuan, from a year earlier. Its gross written premiums and policy fees rose 17 percent, to 63.7 billion yuan, in the first half.
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China's 500 top businesses saw their combined profits rise 23 percent in 2005, with strong earnings in the petrochemicals, banking and metals industries contributing a large share of the growth, according to a study published Monday.
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Wells Fargo & Co.  and U.S.  Bancorp  recorded higher second-quarter profits, leading  a batch of bank earnings on Tuesday, as higher fees offset  pressure on lending margins from rising interest rates.
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Chinese stocks rose Monday, buoyed by strong earnings expectations for brokerages and by a rebound in market heavyweight PetroChina.
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BEIJING: China&#39;s economy surged by an impressive 9.5 per cent year-on-year in the first nine months of this year, marginally slower than the 9.7 per cent recorded in the first half of the year, the government said here on Sunday while claiming credit for
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China may avoid a sudden economic slowdown after the central bank raised benchmark interest rates for the first time in nine years last week, a survey showed.
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Growth in Chinese industrial output picked up last month, boosted by strong export demand, figures show.
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Chinese consumer inflation rose in February on the back of higher food costs, but economists said they did not expect price pressures to get out of hand despite breakneck growth and plentiful cash in the banking system.