Barclays posts bumper third-quarter pretax profits on bond-trading boom

LONDON (Reuters) - Barclays reported a forecast-beating bounce in third quarter profits to 1.7 billion pounds on Thursday, as it followed U.S. peers in reporting a bumper quarter for its investment banking business.

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