Tuesday, Nov 01, 2011

DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones)--Kuwait's Mobile Telecommunications Co., better known as Zain (ZAIN.KW), Tuesday said that its net profit for the first nine-months of the year rose 7% to $762.5 million.

Zain incurred $100 million forex losses throughout its various markets, the telco said in an e-mailed Arabic statement.

Zain shares closed 1% up Tuesday at KWD0.940.

-By Shereen El Gazzar, Dow Jones Newswires; +971 444 61684; Shereen.elgazzar@dowjones.com

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