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The company signaled a breach in banknote paper quality will clip first-half pretax profit by at least 35 million pounds ($53 million).

The company reported higher pretax profit and sales for the third quarter, and said it expects growth for the fourth.

With a first-quarter pretax profit of $660 million, the company is also planning to IPO this year on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Geico's pretax profit, however, was down 61% from a year earlier to $114 million.

Mr. Loughridge said the pretax profit margin for the company rose 4. 1 points to 18. 3%.

Without the change in debt valuation, pretax profit for the third quarter was 'significantly ahead' of the year-earlier period, HSBC said.

Out of pretax profit of $1. 1 billion, excluding special items, $661 million came from the financial services business.

Excluding gains on the value of its own debt and other one-off events, underlying pretax profit rose 30% to $9. 6 billion.

Analysts had been expecting pretax profit of $9. 3 billion.

Excluding the goodwill charge, pretax profit fell to $19. 9 billion, beating the $19 billion expected by analysts.

Pretax profit for the year was HK 21, 937, 000, compared to HK 33, 789, 000 a year ago.

Mr. Grubel set a goal of generating annual pretax profit of 15 billion Swiss francs ($15. 54 billion) by 2014 at the latest.

The group said pretax profit jumped to $11. 1 billion from $5. 02 billion.

His Barclays Capital unit accounted for 66 percent of the lender's pretax profit in the first half, up from half last year.

United Internet AG tumbled 8. 5 percent to 11. 88 euros after reporting an 8. 3 percent drop in nine-month pretax profit.

Hong Kong alone accounted for $2. 88 billion in pretax profit in the half, 38% more than what HSBC earned in the U. K.

High pretax profit margins relative to others in the industry