BNP profits hit by 2 billion euro Greek charge
November 03, 2011 at 02:30 AM EDT
PARIS (Reuters) - France's biggest listed bank BNP Paribas reported a 72 percent slide in third-quarter earnings on Thursday after it booked a bigger-than-expected 2 billion-euro ($2.76 billion) charge on Greek debt and sold billions of euros' worth of government bonds.
