The profit growth in the first half demonstrates that our strategy is delivering strongly.

We have delivered what we said we would deliver, ... We have got very strong profit growth in a number of our businesses.

The principal conclusion is that we expect profit growth to continue through our new forecast horizon.

[This year's profit] growth would mainly come from the full-year contribution of the new malls and the opening of its largest mall -- the Mall of Asia.

Evidence is accumulating that growth in the fourth quarter slowed in the euro zone. Two-year bonds should profit from this development.

Our profit growth was a bit stronger than we expected.