Egypt's stock exchange declined for a second consecutive day after the country's biggest publicly traded steel producer said its full-year profit fell 53 per cent.
The Egyptian Exchange 30 Index lost 0.5 per cent to close at 5,144.27 points.
Ezz Steel's standalone profit for last year fell to 116.1 million Egyptian pounds, from 249.5m pounds in 2009. Shares of the company declined 1.8 per cent to 9.79 Egyptian pounds, the lowest close in two months.
The exchange said on July 6 it gave Ezz Steel 15 days to report full-year and first-quarter results or face a trading suspension.
The results pre-date turmoil that engulfed the company when a civil uprising ousted Hosni Mubarak from the presidency in February and led to a series of corruption investigations targeting those close to Mr Mubarak, including the company's founder, Ahmed Ezz.
"The results may have been pretty bad and unexpected, but … the new management should help the company to increase its sales," said Mohamed Ashnawy, the executive director for sales trading at Al-Futtaim HC Securities in Dubai.
In the UAE, the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange General Index was down 0.3 per cent to 2,697.65 on low volumes. Dubai's benchmark, the Dubai Financial Market General Index, was down 0.7 per cent to 1,522.10.
Kuwait's index added 0.5 per cent to 6004.20; Bahrain's measure was unchanged at 1,317.3; and Oman's index lost 0.3 per cent to 5,961.33.
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A comparison of sending Dh20,000 from the UAE using two different routes at the same time - the first direct from a UAE bank to a bank in Germany, and the second from the same UAE bank via an online platform to Germany - found key differences in cost and speed. The transfers were both initiated on January 30.
Route 1: bank transfer
The UAE bank charged Dh152.25 for the Dh20,000 transfer. On top of that, their exchange rate margin added a difference of around Dh415, compared with the mid-market rate.
Total cost: Dh567.25 - around 2.9 per cent of the total amount
Total received: €4,670.30
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Total cost: Dh74.10, around 0.4 per cent of the transaction
Total received: €4,756
The UAE bank transfer was far quicker – around two to three working days, while the online platform took around four to five days, but was considerably cheaper. In the online platform transfer, the funds were also exposed to currency risk during the period it took for them to arrive.
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Al Nahda Pond Park
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Height: 24 meters
Ground floor banquet hall: 370 square metres to accommodate about 750 people
Ground floor multipurpose hall: 92 square metres for up to 200 people
First floor main Prayer Hall: 465 square metres to hold 1,500 people at a time
First floor terrace areas: 2,30 square metres
Temple will be spread over 6,900 square metres
Structure includes two basements, ground and first floor
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Shower or bath after being outside.
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