European bank traders deliver best results in more than a decade

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Traders in the largest investment banks in Europe have given their highest quarterly revenues in at least one decade, instability overcoming financial markets activated on both sides of activated activities.

UBS, BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Barclays and Deutsche Banks In recent weeks, commencement of 13 billion euros during stock revenues and January-March, the highest quarterly quarterly quarter quarterly quarter.

The representation of European banks reflects the stellar trade income from US peers in the first three months of the year, during which the five largest banks in Wall Street are almost $ 37 billion.

Since returning to the White House in January, the victory has shown during the economic uncertainty: there is a place of places, bonds and currency markets, which allowed traders to operate.

“Market instability widely supports global market marketing, as well as for us,” said St. Chief Executive Slavomir Krubir. “The failure is managed by a macro perspective for everyone.”

The first quarter of 2025 reflected a record presentation in the Markets of UBS and BNP Paribas. Swiss lender’s commercial revenues jumped from almost a third to $ 2.5 billion ($ 2.3 billion) compared to the same period, while the largest bank in France sold 2.8 billion euros in the quarter.

Deutsche Bank – which no longer has stock trading business, and Barclays, respectively, recorded 17% and 21 percent, respectively.

SOCGEN’s commercial performance was conditioned by its shares, where income increased from more than fifth to 1.06 billion euros compared to the previous year.

After most recent decades, European lenders have been turning a turning values ​​in recent years, which stimulate their net interest income and pay depositors.

However, the commercial divisions of the banks also used the rivals of the market instability, starting from the Kvid-9 epidemic in 2020. This was followed by the beginning of 2022, after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine and Central Banks.

Before the last quarter of the last quarter, the crown was held as the highest commercial revenues of European banks since 2015, in which 12.8 billion euros produced 12.8 billion dollars. Credit Suses was also a significant player in Europe and a significant ficc trader in 2023 before his death.

UBS Chief Executive Director Sergio Ertrit said that the Swiss lender saw a huge coat of customer at the beginning of the second quarter, when Trump reported on April 2.

“During some days, trade volumes exceeded their sub-peak by about 30%,” he said, describing the level of activity as “quite unique.”

Andrew Momber, analyst at Citigroup, said: “This body is fine [second quarter] Market Revenues Following Strong Stocks and Ficc Results [the first quarter]”

Hotspent[Ermotti] However, he confirmed that now there is a degree of fatigue of investors, and since he returned to a more normalized trade environment, “COBES added.