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Nov 16 2011

Kuwait's Gulf Bank Expects To Double 2011 Pft Vs Previous Yr-Report

Wednesday, Nov 16, 2011

BEIRUT (Zawya Dow Jones)--Kuwait's Gulf Bank expects its 2011 full-year profit to nearly double from that in 2010, Kuwait-based Al Rai daily reports Wednesday citing an executive.

The bank had posted a net profit of 19 million Kuwaiti dinars ($69.22 million) last year and a loss of KWD28 million in 2009, the paper reports.

The allocations for provisions that Gulf Bank this year will be lower 50% compared with the previous year, Michel Accad, the lender's chief executive, told Al Rai.

In the last two years, the bank was able to increase its coverage of the non-performing loans of its lending portfolio by nearly KWD200 million to more than 100%, he told the daily.

Newspaper website: http://www.alraimedia.com/Article.aspx?id=309905&date=16112011

-By Beirut Bureau, Zawya Dow Jones; +961-1-985 757; BeirutZDJ@zawya.com

Copyright (c) 2011 Dow Jones & Co.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

16-11-11 0601GMT

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