SYDNEY (Reuters) -Macquarie Group on Friday reported its lowest half-year profit in three years as costs rose and it paused green asset sales, but it said its performance would pick up in the second half and it had enough excess capital to buy back shares.
The first-half results were a rare miss for the Australian firm, which prides itself on a global breadth stretching from retail banking to offshore wind and commodity trading. The Sydney-based financial conglomerate has not had a steeper first-half profit drop in more than a decade.