The rise in profit in the second quarter came after a three-quarter streak of falling net income.
The rise in profit in the third quarter came after a three-quarter streak of falling net income.
For three straight quarters, the company has reported falling net income.
Trouble for the bank continued in the first quarter, with its net profit falling 12 percent year-over-year due to the impact of a special banking tax.
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In their report the MSPs said it is "important that there should be no incremental movement towards an ever wider category of people falling within the contributory net".
This figure was also the lowest since Q3 2011, with the net interest margin falling to the unprecedented 3.66% from the normal level of 3.8-3.9%.
Some of it involves printing money, disguised by accounting tricks: while the government's net debt is falling its gross debt is rising, and its deficit helps to keep Brazil's interest rates high (though they are lower than a decade ago).
Benefits, he says, are a "safety net to stop people falling into abject poverty".
But extra borrowing along these lines could make it harder to meet the second fiscal rule, which says that Public Sector Net Debt must be falling in 2015-16.
Unfortunately, during much of this period world growth was dismal not robust, so the falling euro exchange rate did nothing for net exports.
But with interest rates falling, General Growth has posted remarkable earnings and net asset value growth.
Small businesses seem to be struggling and some deflationary indications have emerged from the report, with the net percent of firms rising average selling prices falling to 7% from 10%, hitting its lowest level since February. (Read JP Morgan Economist: QE3 Only If We See Deflation, Equities Will Finish 2011 Up 8% To 10%).
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If this is how things pan out, the IMF says the Chancellor George Osborne would probably have to admit that he was going miss one of his key fiscal targets, which says net debt as a share of GDP must be falling in 2015-16.
It says that net debt as a share of the economy has to be falling in 2015-16.
Silver net-long positions for the managed-money accounts decreased, falling to a mere 632 contracts.
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Silver net-long positions for the managed-money accounts decreased, falling to 7, 242 contracts.
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Silver net-long positions for the managed-money accounts decreased, falling to 34, 862 contracts.
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Silver net-long positions for the managed-money accounts fell slightly, falling to 12, 334 contracts.
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Meanwhile, falling U.S. oil imports mean that North America as a whole becomes a net oil exporter by around 2030.
Net income increased in the first quarter, snapping a two-quarter streak of falling profit.
Net income increased in the second quarter, snapping a two-quarter streak of falling profit.
Net income increased in the third quarter, snapping a two-quarter streak of falling profit.
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