A statement posted on the Abu Dhabi bourse website said the company’s investment portfolio had incurred a loss of AED42m in the first nine months of 2008 "due to the current situation in regional stock markets".
Nine-month operating profit climbed 44 percent to AED250.6m as sale prices increased by an average 23 per cent, outpacing costs which went up 15 pe rcent, it said.
