Wednesday, Aug 08, 2012

DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones)--Commercial Bank of Kuwait Wednesday reported a 5.4% year-on-year fall in second-quarter net profit.

The bank made a 122,000 Kuwaiti dinar ($433,000) net profit during the quarter, it said in a filing posted on the Kuwait Stock Exchange website. That compared to a KWD129,000 profit in last year's second quarter.

-By Asa Fitch, Dow Jones Newswires, +971 4 446-1685, asa.fitch@dowjones.com; Twitter: @ZDJnews

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