The country's largest bank State Bank of India (SBI) expects its earnings growth in the second quarter of this fiscal (FY10) to be around 30-35 per cent, the bank Chairman O P Bhatt said.

"We expect a growth of 30-35 per cent year-on-year in our earnings in the second quarter," Bhatt said on the sidelines of a Ficci-IBA seminar here today.

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The bank has also seen a healthy growth in its retail loans in the second quarter- almost twice as high as compared to the year-ago period, Bhatt said.

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