Overall revenue in the third quarter rose to $13.4 billion, up 14.5 percent from the year-ago period.

The volume of deals there increased by half over the year-ago period, to $455 billion.

The latest quarter included interest income of $192,277, compared with $240,235 for year-ago period.

In the year-ago period, net income was $457 million, or 17 cents a share.

Only 600 rounds were played during the first quarter there compared with 2,000 in the year-ago period.

Advertising pages held about even for the first eight months of the year, compared with the year-ago period.

The company also said interests costs were $51,119,000 in the latest quarter, compared with $16,230,000 for year-ago period.

The sales for the latest 9 months and both year-ago periods were not available.

But this May brought the first increase from the year-ago period, he reported, 78 compared with 64.

The company did not have any revenue in the year-ago period.