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NAIROBI | Mon Nov 4, 2013 1:04am EST
NAIROBI Nov 4 (Reuters) - Kenya's Equity Bank Group said on Monday its pretax profit for the first nine months of the year rose 7 percent to 12.6 billion shillings ($147.45 million).
Equity, which focuses on the lower-income part of the market, and also operates in Uganda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Rwanda, said in a statement its total interest income rose 4 percent to 23.6 billion shillings from 22.7 billion shillings in the same period in 2012. ($1 = 85.4500 Kenyan shillings) (Reporting by George Obulutsa; Editing by Duncan Miriri)
