Jan.21 — Shaikha Al-Bahar, deputy group chief executive officer at National Bank of Kuwait, discusses full-year earnings and her outlook for the bank. She speaks on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Middle East.”
In This Story: Kuwait
Oil reserves were discovered in commercial quantities in 1938. Kuwait is a non-NATO ally of the United States. Kuwait is also a major ally of ASEAN, while maintaining a very strong relationship with China.
Kuwait is a constitutional sovereign state with a semi-democratic political system. Kuwait has a World Bank high-income economy backed by the world’s sixth largest oil reserves. The Kuwaiti dinar is the highest valued currency in the world.