{"id":12199,"date":"2026-07-28T06:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=12199"},"modified":"2026-07-28T06:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:43:06","slug":"barclays-posts-surge-in-profits-on-strong-trading-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=12199","title":{"rendered":"Barclays posts surge in profits on strong trading \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>The Barclays campus in Glasgow<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Barclays bank has reported a 17% rise in first-half \u200bprofit before tax to \u00a36.1 billion, beating analysts\u2019 forecasts and kickstarting what is likely to be a bumper reporting week for the sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Strong equities trading revenues and deal fees \u200bcontributed to the surge which exceeded the consensus estimate of about \u00a35.94bn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Group income rose 11% year-on-year to \u00a316.5bn, with the investment bank showing a 20% income increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The bank also announced a \u2060fresh \u2060share \u200cbuyback of \u00a31 billion, above forecasts \u200bfor \u00a3831 \u200bmillion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It declared a dividend of 5.9p per share, a significant increase from the previous year\u2019s 3p. The company has also upgraded its 2026 Group income target to approximately \u00a331.5bn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">C S Venkatakrishnan, Group chief executive, commented: \u201cI am pleased with another strong quarter for Barclays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are upgrading the 2026 Group income target to c.\u00a331.5bn and remain committed to, and confident in, delivering all financial and distribution targets for 2026 and 2028.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #Barclays #posts #surge #profits #strong #trading #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Barclays campus in Glasgow Barclays bank has reported a 17% rise in first-half \u200bprofit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[5685,272,306,1735,1649,573,1495,3007],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}