沙特王子阿尔瓦利德•本•塔拉尔(Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal)昨日宣布，计划把价值22.4亿里亚尔（合5.97亿美元）的花旗集团(Citigroup)股份，“捐赠”给他的投资集团，以增强该集团的资产负债表。
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, the Saudi investor, revealed yesterday that he plans to shore-up the balance sheet of his investment vehicle by “donating” Sr2.24bn ($597m) of shares in Citigroup into it.
阿尔瓦利德王子表示，此举将帮助王国控股公司(Kingdom Holding)实现盈利，并能向股东派发股息。该公司2007年在沙特证交所上市了5%股份。
Prince Alwaleed said the initiative would help lead Kingdom Holding, which floated 5 per cent of its shares on the Saudi stock exchange in 2007, to profitability and enable it to distribute dividends to shareholders.
他在声明中表示：“这些措施将确保王国控股能够继续发展，帮助它抵御全球经济危机的负面影响。”
“These measures will ensure the continuous development of Kingdom Holding and help it withstand the negative repercussions of the global economic crisis,” he said in a statement.
阿尔瓦利德王子表示，王国控股将“继续执行过去30年的国内和国际战略投资计划”。
Prince Alwaleed said Kingdom would “continue its strategic local and international investment plans of the past 30 years”.
此外，王国控股表示，将召开一次特别大会，审核把公司股本从630亿里亚尔缩减为375亿里亚尔的事宜。该公司将合并股份，每17股将合为10股。
Kingdom added that an extraordinary general meeting would be called to approve a reduction of the company's share capital from SR63bn to SR37.5bn. The company's shares will be consolidated, with every 17 shares reduced to 10.
王国控股的股价在去年3月从13里亚尔猛跌至3.65里亚尔低点，在短暂反弹后就陷入停滞。该股昨日收于4.7里亚尔。
Kingdom's share price collapsed from SR13 a share to a nadir of SR3.65 in March last year and after a brief recovery it has stagnated. It ended yesterday at SR4.7.
该公司因所持花旗集团等股份贬值而受到冲击。根据该公司网站，截止2007年3月30日，王国控股持有逾92亿美元股票。
The company has been hit by a fall in the value of some of its holdings, including Citigroup. On its website, Kingdom said it held a stake worth more than $9.2bn as of March 30 2007.
但花旗股价已在信贷危机期间大幅下跌，过去两年累计下跌87.6%，从每股28.2美元跌至3.50美元。
However, Citigroup shares have fallen sharply amid the credit crisis, falling 87.6 per cent in the past two years to $3.50 from $28.2 a share.
Bakheet投资集团首席投资官希沙姆•阿布•杰米(Hisham Abu Jamee)表示，注入花旗股份和合并股份，将使该控股公司的每股账面价值从3.5里亚尔提高近一倍。
Hisham Abu Jamee, chief investment officer at Bakheet Investment Group, says the injection of Citi shares and share consolidation would almost double the holding company's book value per share from SR3.5.
虽然阿尔瓦利德王子的主要财富是王国控股公司，但他在一些区域及全球性公司也有可观的个人投资，还拥有大量地产和一架私人的A380超大型客机。
While Kingdom forms the lion's share of Prince Alwaleed's wealth, he also has sizable personal investments in regional and global companies, as well as a large real estate portfolio and a personal A380 “superjumbo”.