...recovered and its Romanian bank beat forecasts.
Net profit after minorities in the quarter to September rose to 272 million euro ($392 million), Erste said in a statement on Tuesday -- broadly in line with forecasts in a Reuters poll of 15 analysts which averaged 278 million euros.
Tweaking its previous mid-term outlook, Erste said it saw net profit rising by at least 20 percent next year and by at least 25 percent in 2009. It kept its 2009 goal of a 55 percent cost-income ratio and 18 to 20 percent return on equity.
[VIENNA/Reuters/Finance.cz]