| From Thepeninsulaqatar.com: Dubai Financial Market (DFM) reported a 79.8 percent fall in second-quarter profit as declining trading volumes weighed on earnings. The firm made Dh25.9m ($7.05m) in the three months ending June 30, compared to Dh128.3m in the second quarter of 2009, it said in a statement.
Trading commission fees fell to Dh43.5m in the second quarter, from Dh126.7m a year earlier, according to the statement. Earlier this year, DFM bought Nasdaq OMX’s one-third stake in the Nasdaq Dubai, with the two Dubai-based bourses switching to a single trading platform.............................................Full Article: Source
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