Foreign news: Agricultural Bank of China profit up 1.5 per cent

Agricultural Bank of China, one the country's four main commercial lenders, said its March 2015 quarterly profit edged up 1.5 per cent to 54.3 billion yuan (A$11 billion). The bank said its total assets rose five per cent over the course of the quarter to 16.8 trillion yuan (A$3.4 trillion) as of 31 March.