<div>Lloyd's of London posts first-half profit of 2.3 bln stg</div> <!-- no image --> <div>Lloyd's of London reported a pre-tax profit of 2.3 billion pounds ($2.87 billion) in the first half of 2019 on Thursday, helped by a cutback in underperforming business.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=Opo5HpHdi-M:kIth78STPzE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=Opo5HpHdi-M:kIth78STPzE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=Opo5HpHdi-M:kIth78STPzE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=Opo5HpHdi-M:kIth78STPzE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=Opo5HpHdi-M:kIth78STPzE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/UKBankingFinancial/~4/Opo5HpHdi-M" height="1" width="1" alt=""></div> Posted by Reuters