HSBC is to increase its dividend as strong growth in Hong Kong and other core Asian markets boosted its capital even though annual profit fell short of expectations.<br /><br />Europe's largest bank said it made a pretax profit in 2012 that was the equivalent of fifteen point 15.8 billion euros.<br /><br />That was down six percent from the previous year. <br /><br />...<br />http://www.euronews.net/
