SMFG second quarter profit falls 10%

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group TSE:8316 reported a 10% decline in its second-quarter net profit, it said on Friday.Japan's second-largest banking group generated a net profit of 501.8 billion yen ($3.14 billion) in the July-to-September period, down from 556.6 billion yen a year earlier.($1 = 159…