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Article: Commercial Bank of Dubai net profits increase by 14 per cent.(Financial report)
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- CPI Financial
- Article date:
- July 16, 2009
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Byline: news@cpifinancial.net (Staff Writer)
Commercial Bank of Dubai (CBD) said that its operating profit in the first six months of 2009 rose 3.2 per cent to AED 599 million ($163 million) compared to AED 580 million in the same period of 2008.
The net profit for the first half of 2009 amounted to AED 502 million ($136.6 million) compared to AED 566 million a year earlier. Net profit for the second quarter was AED 268 million ($72.9 million), which represents a 14.4 per cent increase compared to AED 233 million for the first quarter of this year. The bank's net interest income of AED 648 million ($176.4 million) is 27 per cent higher over the same ...