A "mild recession" is connected the cards, according to Commerzbank CEO Manfred Knof.
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Commerzbank connected Friday unexpectedly released quarterly results, touting "record" yearly nett and announcing a caller stock buyback scheme.
The slope said it achieved a 20% summation successful nett net to 2.68 cardinal euros ($2.78 billion) successful 2024. This compares with a $2.47 cardinal nett net forecast for the period, according to a statement estimation cited by Reuters.
The radical laid retired intentions to repurchase 400 cardinal euros of shares and projected to assistance its dividend payout to 0.65 euros per share, compared with 0.35 euros per stock successful the erstwhile year.
Shares successful the lender were up 2.3% astatine 1:30 p.m. London time, pursuing the release.
The radical had primitively listed plans to people its fourth-quarter and yearly net connected Feb. 13, erstwhile it besides intends to present its yearly property conference. The aboriginal merchandise falls successful measurement with German ineligible requirements erstwhile the magnitude of superior instrumentality importantly surpasses the expectations of superior markets.
The results travel arsenic Commerzbank has been making a lawsuit to basal alone, aft a astonishment involvement physique from Italy's second-largest lender UniCredit stoked marketplace speculation of involvement successful a imaginable tie-up. UniCredit present owns a nonstop 9.5% involvement and a 18.5% involvement via derivatives successful Commerzbank, aft archetypal gathering its involvement successful September, past subsequently expanding its position.
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