Boeing calls on Middle East investors to fund deals

Boeing called on cash-rich Middle East banks and investors to help plug any potential financing shortfall of its aircraft as European banks reel from the region's sovereign debt crisis - Zawya Dow Jones is reporting.

"The current European sovereign debt crisis, and its expected impacts on European banks, gives new impetus to aircraft investment opportunities for Middle East investors," Boeing said in a statement following its annual aircraft finance conference in the region.

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