61.   When stock prices shoot around, the chances to earn a quick profit increase.

62.   And many Japanese companies showed profit increases only because the figures were translated into weaker dollars.

63.   Both companies announced big profit increases at the same time as their merger plans.

64.   General Manager Ghazi Abdul-Jawad said in a statement the profit increase was due to increased interest earnings as well as higher foreign exchange and securities trading profits.

65.   In dollar terms, however, the profit increase was much smaller.

66.   In the consolidated balance sheets, as in the unconsolidated ones, manufacturers posted solid profit increases while non-manufacturers showed slight declines.

67.   It attributed the profit increase to a growing potash demand, especially in the Far East, Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe.

68.   Soaring sales in Italy, Brazil and Poland, and action by the Turin-based group to contain costs figured in the profit increase.

69.   The bank said the greatest profit increases came from foreign exchange gains.