Barclays bank says 1Q net profit up 12 pct

Courtesy Newsvine - business  Thu, 05/07/2009 - 04:49

First-quarter net profit at Barclays PLC rose 12 percent from a year ago as investment banking profits surged from the acquisition of U.S. assets of bankrupt Lehman Brothers, though the bank posted a steep 79 percent increase in writeoffs on bad investments due to the financial crisis.


 

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