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High inflation caused the native currency, the rial, to plummet in value.
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Now many of those houses have stopped doing rial business as well.
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But aided by the weak rial, exports of low-end cars have continued.
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Those numbers suggested Tehran might have enough reserves to defend the rial comfortably.
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If you don't know the mate- rial, the notes won't help.
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It posted a budget deficit of 1.545 billion Omani rial ($4 billion) in January to September.
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National Bank of Oman gained 1.3 percent after making a quarterly net profit of 10.2 million Omani rials, according to Reuters calculations.