Portugal's Banco Comercial Portugues SA (BCP.LB) Wednesday posted a third-quarter net loss of EUR29 million, hurt by a write-down on its holdings of Greek sovereign debt.

 
   MAIN FACTS:

- Net profit fell to EUR59.4 million in the nine-month period from EUR217.4 million a year ago. A Dow Jones Newswires poll of three analysts had anticipated a nine-month net profit of EUR58.5 million.

- Net interest income--the difference between what a bank charges for loans and what it pays for deposits and other funding--grew to EUR1.2 billion from EUR1.09 billion in the previous year.

- Trading income was EUR38.7 million, plunging from EUR345.4 million a year earlier.

- Provisions for non-performing loans were up to EUR764 million from EUR549.9 million.

- The bank's core Tier 1 ratio stood at 9.1% at the end of October after an equity-swap exercise.

- BCP said last week it needs to raise EUR2.36 billion to comply with new capital requirements set in a Brussels summit last week, and may tap the EUR12 billion fund in Portugal's bailout program.

- The bank is also considering bids for its Polish unit, Bank Millennium SA (MIL.WA).

-Contributed by Carla Canivete of Webtexto to Dow Jones Newswires; +34-91-395 8120; djmadrid@dowjones.com