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The Gulf kingdom is trying to tackle a very wide deficit and sky-high debt to GDP
Gulf investors 'will now look at every deal', whether sukuk or not
Demand from the Middle East for the sukuk was steady
Bond pricing for the mining company started about 43bp back of its parent
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JCR-VIS assigns local currency ratings on a national scale. Local currency rating on a national scale assumes the national government to be least risky, which is therefore implicitly assigned a 'کAAA' rating. These ratings represent an entity's ability to meet its domestic obligations in the local currency.
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The Middle East looks set to add more weight to the bulging emerging markets pipeline next week, with both the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) and Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank having picked arrangers for prospective deals.
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JCR-VIS assigns local currency ratings on a national scale. Local currency rating on a national scale assumes the national government to be least risky, which is therefore implicitly assigned a 'کAAA' rating. These ratings represent an entity's ability to meet its domestic obligations in the local currency.
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Tharawat Investment House (Tharawat), an Islamic investment firm based in Bahrain, has reported 5.06% profit returns on its Tharawat Sukuk Fund for the second half of 2012. The fund achieved a total return of 9.44% in 2012 and a cumulative return of 21.98% since its inception in February 2010. Tharawat will distribute 4% for the period from July to December 2012, the sixth time of such distribution.
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The Malaysian capital market registered a record performance in 2012 with the overall size reaching RM2.5 trillion, a 16.4% increase from RM2.1 trillion in 2011. All market segments saw double digit growth between the range of 14.1% to 22.6%.
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Egypt’s finance ministry is looking to the last quarter of the fiscal year to issue the country’s sovereign sukuk. Speaking at a press conference in Cairo on Tuesday, Ahmed Nagar, a Freedom and Justice Party official charged with overseeing Shariah compliant finance, said that the government had taken proposals from the Islamic Research Academy into account and would ask Al Azhar University specialists to review the plans.