Good B of I results boost banking sector
17th Nov 2006, 06:33 GMT
Dublin report: Banks, and more precisely Bank of Ireland, were the focus of the market's attention yesterday. The Republic's second-biggest bank released first-half results showing a 28 per cent increase in underlying pretax profits and raised its full-year growth forecast to 20 per cent.
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