Friday, August 25, 2006

This week in financial news

“Royal Bank of Canada reported profit of $1.18-billion in its third quarter of 2006, a 20 per cent increase from $979-million in the same quarter a year earlier.”

The Royal is my bank so, speaking as a mogul, I guess I should be happy that my vast fortune sits in a sound institution. But PROFIT of over one billion dollar$ for a quarter is obscene, right? They’re not even in the oil business!

This irritates my inner socialist.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Our banks are much the same and they charge outrageous fees for every little thing - I ditched them ages ago and use a credit union now. (I hope that doesn't come across as too self-righteous.....)

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

The credit union is big here in Quebec, too, but I don't know about the rest of the country. I've been investigating it.