EU crisis $macks SocGen
Société Générale SA, France’s second-largest bank, said fourth-quarter profit fell 89 percent as the investment bank posted its first loss in two years.
Net income declined to 100 million euros ($130 million) from 874 million euros a year earlier, the Paris-based bank said.
That missed the 317 million-euro average estimate of 14 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Société Générale’s corporate and investment bank had a 482 million-euro loss as Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis curbed client trading and the bank wrote down troubled assets.
Société Générale reiterated that it doesn’t plan to pay a dividend for 2011 as it accumulates capital.
Société Générale said it hasn’t decided whether to tap the ECB’s next round of funding.
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