Reuters
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Skanska reported on Thursday a rise in second-quarter profit that was slightly bigger than expected, and said activity was high in the construction industry but inflation would remain challenging for the market. Operating profit at the Nordic region's largest builder, and one of the biggest in the United States, came in at 2.40 billion Swedish crowns ($235.1 million), compared with 2.34 billion crowns in a year-ago period. Analysts polled by Refinitiv had on average estimated a profit of 2.18 billion crowns.