HBOS on course for huge profits
21/06/2006 - 08:30:45Halifax Bank of Scotland said today that it was on course to deliver annual profits of more than £5bn (€7.31bn).
HBOS said it was “comfortable” with analysts’ forecasts that underlying profits for 2006 would rise to £5.2bn (€7.6bn) from £4.8bn (€7bn) last year.
It came as the bank – the UK’s largest mortgage provider – said its performance in the first half of the year was “robust”.
