{"id":81389,"date":"2022-04-28T02:15:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T06:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=81389"},"modified":"2022-04-28T02:25:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T06:25:54","slug":"barclays-beats-expectations-as-russia-ukraine-volatility-gives-investment-bank-a-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2022\/barclays-beats-expectations-as-russia-ukraine-volatility-gives-investment-bank-a-boost.html","title":{"rendered":"Barclays beats expectations as Russia-Ukraine volatility gives investment bank a boost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BARC-GB\" target=\"_blank\">Barclays<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday beat analyst expectations for the first quarter, as strong investment banking performance helped drive income growth. The British bank reported first-quarter net profit attributable to shareholders of \u00a31.4 billion ($1.76 billion), above analyst expectations of \u00a3644 million, according to Refinitiv data. It marks an 18% decline from the first quarter of 2021, when net profit came in at \u00a31.7 billion. Group income rose 10% year-on-year to \u00a36.5 billion, driven by strong corporate and investment banking earnings during a spike market volatility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/04\/28\/barclays-q1-2022-results-.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Barclays\u00a0on Thursday beat analyst expectations for the first quarter, as strong investment banking performance helped drive income growth. The British bank reported first-quarter net profit attributable to shareholders of \u00a31.4 billion ($1.76 billion), above analyst expectations of \u00a3644 million, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81390,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81389\/revisions\/81390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}