Barclays (BARC.L) raised its 2025 performance targets this week after reporting a better than expected 24 per cent rise in annual pretax profit driven by investment banking income growth and strength in its domestic lending business.
The bank’s shares – which had hit their highest since March 2011 on Wednesday – were down 5.7 per cent at 1048 GMT, with analysts citing profit-taking linked to the lender’s rising costs and
