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THURSDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2024 • ISSUE 245
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HSBC Malta posts record
€134m profit for 2023
St James Hospital
Group partners
with DIGIMED
KURT SANSONE
HSBC Malta posted record pre-tax prof-
its of €133.9 million in 2023 with directors
recommending one of the highest dividend
pay-outs in 10 years.
Shareholders will receive a final gross divi-
dend of 9c per share, which brings the total
dividend for 2023 to 15c per share, the bank
announced on Wednesday.
e dividend pay-out ratio is of 40% on re-
ported profits.
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STAR PERFORMER MSE FTSE 100
EUR EXCHANGE RATES
Trading Date: 21 Feb 2024
Number of Trades: 68
Turnover: €762,068.89
MSE TRX Index: 8080.636
Change: +0.385%
Name: 3.85% HLF UNSEC
MT0001891200 - Currency €
Last Traded: 21 Feb 2024
Price 96.000
Change +1.000
US Dollar 1.0522
British Pound: 0.86477
Japanese Yen: 144.59
Australian Dollar: 1.5451
Swiss Franc: 0.98700
7,613.67
78.12
7,613.39 / 7,312.00
Value
Net variation
High / Low
+0.86%
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ALEXIEI DINGLI
OPINION PAGE 12
Seasonally
adjusted
industrial
turnover in
Q4 2023
down by 0.1
per cent
During the fourth quarter of 2023, seasonally adjusted industrial turnover decreased by 0.1 per cent over the
previous quarter. The highest decrease was registered in the capital goods (10.4 per cent), followed by energy
(1.0 per cent) and consumer goods (0.7 per cent). On the contrary, there was an increase of 2.6 per cent in the
intermediate goods.
Annual industrial turnover working-day adjusted variation
PAUL COCKS
SAINT James Hospital Group is partnering with
Digimed, a new online digital platform which, for
the first time ever, brings together healthcare pro-
fessionals, patients and pharmacists in one ecosys-
tem.
Digimed acts as a tool that enables video, voice
and text consultations, allowing doctors to seam-
lessly interact remotely with their patients who also
enjoy access to an elective health records system,
making their medical information portable and dy-
namically updatable.
• Bank pays out one of the
highest dividends in 10
years
• Globally, HSBC reported
a pretax profit of €28b
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