For the first nine months of last year, the bank earned $101 million.
Top American banks earn 5 to 10 times as much.
The bank earned $101 million in the quarter, down 63.8 percent from a year earlier.
That was 25 percent above what the bank earned in the quarter a year ago.
Savings left in a bank over many years will not be earning great interest.
Based on results from the first half of 2006, he predicted that the bank would earn $4 million for the entire year.
Banks earned a record profit of $25.2 billion last year.
The bank earned $270 million for the quarter, an increase of 110 percent from the comparable period a year ago.
And think of the good will the banks would earn (something quite unusual for a bank).
Analysts had estimated that the bank would earn about $1.12 a share.
