Apex court asked the lawyers to provide a copy of the apology advertisements without enlarging them, emphasising they should not need a microscope to read it
“The initial guidance is 80 to 85 points over LIBOR,” the source said. “The final prices will be set tomorrow or Thursday.”
Benchmark size generally means at least $500 million.
Moody’s Investors Service, which assigned a Baa1 rating to the Islamic bond, or sukuk, said SAAD Group would lease land in Saudi Arabia to Golden Belt, a Bahrain-based special purpose vehicle which is selling the bonds.
Standard & Poor’s gave the sukuk a BBB+ rating.
SAAD Group, which works in construction and real estate, said in a statement it was raising funds to finance various projects since the acquisition of a stake worth 3.3 billion pounds ($6.6 billion) in HSBC Holdings HSBA.L.
Maan al-Sanea, who owns Khobar-based SAAD Group, said in a British regulatory filing last month that he owned a 3.1 percent stake in HSBC, Europe’s biggest bank, through Singularis Holdings, an investment company based in the Cayman Islands.
Islamic bonds are typically backed by physical assets that pay a dividend or rent to bondholders rather than interest, which Islam equates with usury.
Sanea owns 90 percent of SAAD Group and his wife, Sana al-Gosaibi, owns 10 percent, Moody’s had said in a statement.
Apex court asked the lawyers to provide a copy of the apology advertisements without enlarging them, emphasising they should not need a microscope to read it
The yellow metal is supported by a revival in demand from Chinese consumers and healthy purchasing activity by central banks, expert says
The Lives and Livelihoods Fund is the largest multilateral fund of its kind in the Middle East
Stock market opened with modest gain on Wednesday marking third consecutive session in the upward gain
Union warned it could order several days of strike action over a busy May holiday weekend if its demands are not met
Humidity is set to rise during the night and into Thursday morning
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The building in Muhaisnah 4 had suffered structural damage last week and has been sealed off as authorities conduct investigations