The company earned $70.5 million in the third quarter of 1989.
The company earned $161 million in the second quarter last year.
The bank earned $101 million in the quarter, down 63.8 percent from a year earlier.
Over all, the company earned $377 million in the first quarter, up 52 percent from a year earlier.
The company earned $145.7 million, or $1.18 a share, in the third quarter a year ago.
The company earned $47.8 million in the first quarter of this year.
That was 25 percent above what the bank earned in the quarter a year ago.
The firm earned $577 million, or $1.06 a share, in the second quarter of 2001.
Western Union earned $3.99 per common share in the fourth quarter.
It earned $155 million in the fourth quarter, up 17 percent from the year before.
