REUTERS National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri), the exclusive oil-shipper for Saudi Aramco, reported a 47.2 percent increase in second-quarter net profit on Tuesday. The company’s net profit for the three months to June 30 was 504.18 million riyals ($134.44 million), up from 342.48 million riyals in the same period a year earlier, it said in a bourse …

  REUTERS Kuwait Finance House (KFH), the country’s biggest Islamic lender, reported a 13.3 percent rise in second-quarter net profit according to a statement on Tuesday, broadly in line with analysts’ forecasts. Net profit rose to 36.77 million dinars ($121.59 million) in the three months to the end of June, from 32.45 million dinars in the same period a year …

  REUTERS State-run oil firm Saudi Aramco has named Ibrahim al-Buainain as chief executive officer of its trading arm, it said in an emailed statement on Tuesday in response to a Reuters query. It said Buainain started his new role earlier this month. Buainain had held the position of head of transaction development at Saudi Aramco for less than a …