Bank Profits Seen Up; Domestic Margins Key

Reuters, Lynne Olver, 18 August 2006Thanks to a still-sunny economic picture, the big six Canadian banks are seen reporting per-share earnings growth of 10 percent to 12 percent when their parade of third-quarter results starts next week.Growth in loans and near-perfect credit quality should result in solid reports for the latest May-July period, analysts said, although cooling real estate