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Standard Chartered Share Price Plunges 4% on 33% Fall in H1 Profit

Nigel Firth
Nigel Frith trader
Updated 22 Mar 2021
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Shares of Standard Chartered PLC (LON: STAN) plunged more than 4% on Thursday after the London-based bank posted a 33% fall in first-half profit.

Standard Chartered, also known as StanChart, recorded a profit of $1.63 billion in the first half of the year. This is 33% less than $2.41 billion in the same period last year. Still, profit figures came in better than the $1.53 billion the market analysts expected. 

“Low interest rates and depressed oil prices continue to be headwinds and we expect new waves of COVID-19 related challenge in the coming quarters,” Chief Executive Officer Bill Winters said.

StanChart said that credit impairment jumped to $1.58 billion from $254 million a year earlier. The bank also reported a decrease of 10% in expenses, with a plan to stay below $10 billion in expenses in 2020 and 2021.

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Standard Chartered share price tumbled over 4% today to trade at 400p for the first time in 8 weeks. 

Nigel Firth
Nigel Frith trader
Nigel has been in the regulated financial services industry for nearly a decade, has previously owned a financial brokerage and has written many times for sites relating to personal finance and trading.