pre - tax profit

The fees accounted for up to a quarter of investment banking pre-tax profit, the research showed.

The Secretary shall issue regulations requiring foreign taxes to be treated as expenses in determining pre-tax profit in appropriate cases.

Rolls-Royce has said only that underlying pre-tax profit growth should be slightly lower than the 4-5% it had signalled last summer.

The increase in revenue and pre-tax profit was attributed to higher sales volume and cigarette prices, it said in a statement.

GM could make a pre-tax profit of $19 billion if North American car sales reached the 17m annualised rate achieved in the last peak.

Fees and other transaction expenses shall be taken into account as expenses in determining pre-tax profit under subparagraph (A).

Virgin Atlantic, BA's arch-rival, seemingly bucked the trend when it said annual pre-tax profit had doubled.

Pre-tax profit at Barclays was £ 3 billion ($4. 4 billion), 8% higher than a year ago.

The sums involved are a drop in the ocean for a company that made a pre-tax profit of $18bn last year.

Overall, group pre-tax profit rose 47 per cent to $250m.

The disclosure came as HKEx reported a 4 per cent year-on-year increase in first-half, pre-tax profit to HK$2. 7bn (US$347. 6m).

HSBC reported a 24% drop in pre-tax profit for 2009, to $7. 1 billion.

It reported a pre-tax profit of Rmb1. 2bn for 2007.

Pre-tax profit was $5. 15bn, up from $4. 57bn in 2008.

Pre-tax profit from HTIL's continuing operations in Hong Kong, Macao, Israel, southeast Asia and Africa was HK$663m.

Hong Kong and the rest of Asia contributed almost 60 per cent of the group's $11. 5bn of pre-tax profit in the first half.

only 5% of group pre-tax profit in 2011 directly stemmed from the Americas, Britain and Europe