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UAE's Gulf Cement Q3 profit plunges on investment loss

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NOT SO SOLID: Ras Al-Khaimah-based Gulf Cement has been burnt after playing the markets. (Getty Images)
NOT SO SOLID: Ras Al-Khaimah-based Gulf Cement has been burnt after playing the markets. (Getty Images)

Gulf Cement Co , the UAE's largest cement producer, posted a third-quarter net profit of just 2.3 million dirhams ($626,200), down from 85.3 million dirhams a year earlier mainly on investment losses.

A statement posted on the Abu Dhabi bourse website said the company's investment portfolio had incurred a loss of 42 million dirhams in the first nine months of 2008 "due to the current situation in regional stock markets".

Nine-month operating profit climbed 44 percent to 250.6 million dirhams as sale prices increased by an average 23 percent, outpacing costs which went up 15 percent, it said. (Reuters)

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