The net profit of the Australian financial group Macquarie in the first half of the year increased by 50% year on year, to 2.48 billion Australian dollars ($1.74 billion), the Wall Street Journal writes. The company's revenues increased by 10% to 9.57 billion Australian dollars. The increase in the financial indices was due to an increase in income from activities with goods, mainly from trading in oil and hedging customer risks against a background of high volatility in the market.