<p style="text-align:left;" size="1" _root="[object Object]" __ownerid="undefined" __hash="undefined" __altered="false"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="color:#333333">UAE's Emirates NBD reported net profits of $1.1 billion, marking a 45% y-o-y decline. The slump came after the country’s biggest bank set aside the same figure in provisions to cover an expected surge in bad loans as a result of the global coronavirus outbreak. </span></span></p>