Fortis latest Euro-insurer to scale back profits

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BELGIUM/NETHERLANDS - Fortis has become the latest financial services firm to issue a full year profits warning on the back of crumbling markets.

The Dutch-Belgian firm blamed “ongoing deterioration” around stock markets for the revision, although no figure was disclosed. Initial estimates for 2002 had stood around 13% growth. Fortis’s insur...

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