Romania's BRD Jan-Sept net profit down 28 pct

Romania's second-largest bank BRD BRDX.BX, controlled by France's Societe Generale posted a drop of around 28 percent in its nine-month net profit on Monday, missing market expectations.
The lender said its January-September bottom line figure stood at 474.2 million lei ($155 million), compared with 660.2 million lei in the same period of last year and an average in a Reuters poll of ten banks and brokerages of 553.4 million lei.

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