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Japan's Mizuho H1 credit costs rise 13 percent

Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:28am EST

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TOKYO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Mizuho Financial Group (8411.T) said its bad loan costs rose 13 percent in the April-September first half of the business year from a year earlier to 161.79 billion yen ($1.8 billion).

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Mizuho, Japan's second-largest bank by assets, released its first-half earnings on Friday. (Reporting by David Dolan)



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