Toyota lifts annual forecast as H1 net profit doubles

TOKYO, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Toyota Motor said on Wednesday that its net profit in the first half of this fiscal year more than doubled from a year earlier to a record 2.59 trillion yen (17.13 billion U.S. dollars), on solid post-pandemic vehicle sales in all major markets.

The Japanese automaker's record earnings for the April-to-September period came on sales of a record 21.98 trillion yen, up 24.1 percent.