{"id":21618,"date":"2006-08-14T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/bank-of-brazil-profits-totalled-us-1-8-bn-in-the-first-half\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T17:19:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T20:19:17","slug":"bank-of-brazil-profits-totalled-us-1-8-bn-in-the-first-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/bank-of-brazil-profits-totalled-us-1-8-bn-in-the-first-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Brazil profits totalled US$ 1.8 bn in the first half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><STRONG>Ag\u00eancia Brasil*<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/> <P>Bras\u00edlia &#8211; The Bank of Brazil had revenues of R$ 3.9 billion (US$ 1.8 billion, all values at current exchange rates) in the first half of 2006, with growth of 96.5% when compared to the R$ 2 billion (US$ 925 million) in the same period of last year, and 78.8% over the profit in the previous half. The result is even greater than that reached by Bradesco, the largest Brazilian private bank, which was R$ 3.1 billion (US$ 1.4 billion).<\/P><br \/> <P>The figures were disclosed today (14) by the board of the bank, and correspond to average annual return on assets of 47.8%, causing the bank to pay R$ 4.71 (US$ 2.18) per share, almost double the R$ 2,48 (US$ 1.15) paid in the first half of 2005.<\/P><br \/> <P>In the half, the Bank of Brazil turned R$ 1.6 billion (US$ 740 million) of its income to shareholders, of which R$ 862 million (US$ 399 million) as dividends and R$ 693 million (US$ 320 million) in interest on own capital.<\/P><br \/> <P><STRONG>*Translated by Mark Ament<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ag\u00eancia Brasil* Bras\u00edlia &#8211; The Bank of Brazil had revenues of R$ 3.9 billion (US$ 1.8 billion, all values at current exchange rates) in the first half of 2006, with growth of 96.5% when compared to the R$ 2 billion (US$ 925 million) in the same period of last year, and 78.8% over the profit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}