Bank of India posts Q3 loss; bad loans soar
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Bank of India Ltd (BOI.NS), India's third-biggest state-run lender by assets, reported a loss for the December quarter as bad loans surged.
Net loss was 15.06 billion rupees ($220.31 million) for its fiscal third quarter to Dec. 31, compared with 1.73 billion rupees profit in the year-ago quarter, the lender said in a statement on Thursday.
Gross bad loans as a percentage of total loans for the bank jumped to 9.18 percent in the December quarter, compared with 7.55 percent in the previous three months.
($1 = 68.0850 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Sumeet Chatterjee; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)