CityAMBarclays sets aside £823m for bad loans as profit creeps up
- Bias Rating
-40% Somewhat Left
- Reliability
25% ReliableLimited
- Policy Leaning
-40% Somewhat Left
- Politician Portrayal
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
Sentiments
-6% Negative
- Liberal
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55% : But pre-tax profit came in at £1.6bn, primarily due to impairment charges.52% : The investment banking haul of the first-quarter of 2026 echoes a similar fate to 12 months prior, where Barclays scored a £2.7bn pre-tax profit, ahead of analyst expectations.
51% : Still, Barclays managed to eke out a three per cent increase in pre-tax profit at £2.8bn, falling in line with analyst consensus.
37% : Barclays was tipped to cash in on the market volatility of the first-quarter that was triggered by the US and Israel's war with Iran.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.
