09:52 AM EST - BMO Financial Group : reported Q3 net earnings of $669 million or $1.13 per share, an improvement of $557 million or $0.97 per share over the same quarter last year. One factor in the figure concerned provisions for credit losses, which came in this past quarter $203 million lower than the previous year ago due to the improved U.S. credit environment. BMO Financial Group
shares T.BMO are trading down $2.29 at $56.77.
