Qatar: Latest 20 news stories
- Qatar’s Commercialbank issues $110m in shares to QIA
- Qatari Diar invites bids for Doha tower
- Qatar shipping firms plan merger to reduce costs
- Kuwait-Bahrain joint venture to develop Lusail project
- Doha pushes ahead with plan for two petrochemicals plants
- Real estate contagion spreads in the Gulf
- Kuwait shuts bourse as retail investors panic
- Wintershall wins Qatar gas exploration deal
- UBS and MerchantBridge launch $500m private equity fund
- PMC awarded for Qatar-Bahrain causeway
- Commercial Bank of Qatar agrees $380m refinancing
- GCC growth to outperform leading industrialised countries in 2009
- Qatar and UAE state-backed funds struggle to gain support for loan deals
- Qatari Diar studies Cyprus property project
- Target wins Abu Dhabi and Qatar deals
- Qatargas awards gas deal to Emerson Process Management
- Two consultants win New Doha Port work
- Ingim launches regional equities fund
- Barclays deal highlights strong position of Gulf investors
- Rethinking regional investment banking
Special Report: Qatar - Restructuring the financial sector
Euro-US stock exchange operator NYSE Euronext has taken a bold position in the Gulf states' stock exchange rivalry, after choosing to invest $250m for a 25 per cent holding in Doha Securities Market (DSM).
Special Report: Why Qatar could extend its gas moratorium
Despite the moratorium on new exploration activity, which effectively locks international firms out of Qatar's giant North field, there is still plenty happening in the state's energy sector. Four new offshore exploration rounds are being launched and the oil majors are jostling to gain new acreage.
Special report: Qatar - Doha struggles with rising inflation
With growth of about 14 per cent a year, Qatar is one of the world's fastest growing economies. It has the highest per capita GDP in the Middle East.
Commentary
- Gulf Gas consumers must pay more
- Doha right to go slow on regulator
- Infrastructure in the GCC is a top priority
- GCC states lack common financial goal
- Lehman exposure must be made public
- Monetary union and GCC Railway: Gulf states should swallow pride
- Code of conduct is no threat to Gulf funds
- Foreigners can raise standards in financial sector
- Rising dollar is no panacea for GCC inflation
- Regulator should clean up markets in Qatar
Tenders
- Qatar: Offshore/onshore operation machinery
- Qatar: Mosques and imam houses
- Qatar: Road development
- Qatar: Road works (3)
- Qatar: Graveyard, accommodation and roads
- Qatar: Road works
- Qatar: Power reinforcement works
- Qatar: Road improvement works (1)
- Qatar: Substation maintenance
- Qatar: Electricity distribution works
