One-off items take Bank of East Asia to record profit

The surge came mainly from a one-off fair-value gain from financial instruments and trading profit, accounting for a combined HK$1.6 billion. Excluding those items, pre-tax profit increased 3.5 per cent to HK$5.95 billion.

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