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Better News At CSFB - At Last

Credit Suisse Group's first quarter profits fell 74% as the financial services giant wrote down the value of stock holdings at its insurance unit and lost money in investment banking. Net income fell for the fifth straight quarter to $227.5m.

But there was better news at investment banking subsidiary CSFB. The investment bank's $19m loss was significantly less than the $939m posted in the last quarter of 2001. The bank revealed a 26% decline in expenses and a 30% fall in personnel costs.

Chief Financial Officer Philip Ryan said: 'We have significantly exceeded the $1bn (cost cutting) target that we set and we expect profitability to be very, very much higher' following the restructure.

Although investment banking revenues were down on a year ago, they were up on the last quarter. No further job losses are expected.

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