Record level of profits

Home Depot reports record profits in the second quarter of the current fiscal year. The net yield has gone up over the previous year’s result by 28 per cent to US $ 1.182 bn (€ 1.21 bn). At US $ 16.3 bn (€ 16.7 bn), sales were twelve per cent higher than the 2001 level. They were one per cent higher on a comparable basis.