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			<title>NBK cuts fair value estimates on 4 Saudi banks</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Downgrade in response to fears of weakening asset quality in banking sector.]]></description>
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			<title>Dollar’s fortunes</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[If the battered US economy weakens the dollar, will there be renewed calls for GCC states to depeg their currencies?]]></description>
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			<title>Zain Saudi Arabia seals $2.5bn loan</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Facility to be used to repay existing Murabaha, as well as fund network expansion and future growth. ]]></description>
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			<title>Troubled Algosaibi owes $9.2bn to banks - sources</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Saudi family holding company reportedly owes money to more than 100 banks.]]></description>
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			<title>SAMA struggles to spur credit amid crisis</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Saudi moves to stave off bank lending crisis by rate cutting unlikely to be enough.]]></description>
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			<title>SABB posts small increase in net profit Q1, 2009</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Saudi British Bank sees net income rise just 1% in first three months of year.]]></description>
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			<title>Kinan puts Jeddah project on hold</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Affiliate of Saudi Arabia's Savola Group puts 2 billion riyals property project on hold.]]></description>
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			<title>SABB chief to step down - sources</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[CEO John Coverdale to step down on Wednesday at Saudi affiliate of HSBC Bank, say sources.]]></description>
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			<title>Three in four Saudi firms plan recruitment freeze</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Survey of 765 companies shows 74% will stop hiring in first half 2009. ]]></description>
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			<title>SABB bank plans bonus share issue</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SABB bank, HSBC's Saudi subsidiary, confirmed on Monday plans for a 1-for-4 bonus share issue.]]></description>
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			<title>Saudi 'will be hit by oil price fall in 2009' - survey</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Q4 poll of execs in kingdom finds only 14% do not expect global crisis to affect economy.]]></description>
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			<title>SABB Q3 net profit 9% ahead at $189mn</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[HSBC-affiliated Saudi lender in line with forecasts, says no exposure to US sub-prime market.]]></description>
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			<title>Inflation batters Saudi business confidence</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SABB survey shows rising cost of doing business weighing on confidence.]]></description>
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			<title>SABB Bank's profits soar by 25%</title>
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