Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Premier Financial Brokerage, an Abu Dhabi-based company, plans to suspend trading operations for six months from Nov. 1, the company said in a newspaper announcement.

Premier Financial officials were not immediately available for comment when called today.

--Editor: Chris Peterson

To contact the reporter on this story: Zahra Hankir in Dubai at zhankir@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Claudia Maedler at cmaedler@bloomberg.net -0- Oct/05/2011 04:02 GMT