Business / Qatar Business

ExxonMobil’s Tamayoz gives training for Qatari partners 15 Apr 2014 - 01:35 am

Participants at the Tamayoz training programme. DOHA: ExxonMobil Qatar’s Tamayoz training programme provided development opportunities to dozens of participants from joint venture partners...

Qatar Exchange down 0.66pc on profit booking 15 Apr 2014 - 01:26 am

Doha: Investors in Qatar, Dubai and Abu Dhabi booked profits for a second day yesterday as global markets remained gloomy and tension grew...

QE, S Korea discuss cooperation 15 Apr 2014 - 01:24 am

Doha: Rashid bin Ali Al Mansoori , the CEO of Qatar Exchange, met here yesterday with H E Keejong Chung, Ambassador of the...

CI reaffirms QIB’s A FSR with stable outlook 15 Apr 2014 - 01:23 am

DOHA: Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) has been reaffirmed by international credit ratings agency, Capital Intelligence (CI), with a Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of...

Disruptive capital flow a worry: Qatar 14 Apr 2014 - 01:05 am

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde (right) with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim at the IMF and World Bank Joint Development Committee meeting...

Muntajat promotes petrochem industry at GPCA PlastiCon 14 Apr 2014 - 12:58 am

Muntajat delegation at GPCA Plasticon and Plastivision. DOHA: Qatar Chemical and Petrochemical Marketing and Distribution Company (Muntajat) represented Qatar’s downstream industry at the...

RasGas unit posts safety milestone 14 Apr 2014 - 12:57 am

The Shorebase team. Doha: The Offshore Support team (Shorebase) of the Offshore Asset Department of RasGas Company Ltd recently celebrated the completion of...

Markets slip, Qatar index down 1.39pc 14 Apr 2014 - 12:53 am

Doha: Qatar Exchange ended in the red area when trading closed yesterday at 12,225.19 points, down 172.02 points, or 1.39 percent, from the...

Real estate transactions hit QR4.2bn in March 14 Apr 2014 - 12:53 am

Doha: Real estate transactions in Qatar reached QR4.2bn in March with Doha municipality registered the highest transaction value by recording QR1.5bn covering an...

QDB, Qatar Shell to empower SMEs 14 Apr 2014 - 12:52 am

DOHA: Qatar Shell through its partnership with Qatar Petroleum in Pearl GTL, and in collaboration with Qatar Development Bank (QDB), will reveal seven...

QNB offers flat rate of 1.8pc on Toyota, Lexus 14 Apr 2014 - 12:52 am

DOHA: QNB is currently running an exclusive offer with 1.8 percent flat rate on Toyota and Lexus models distributed by Abdullah Abdulghani, Al-Tadamon...

CBQ foreign ownership limit upped to 25pc 14 Apr 2014 - 12:52 am

DOHA: The ownership of foreign investors in Commercial Bank of Qatar (CBQ) has been limited to 25 percent of the total shares of...

Weekly Commodity Update: Commodities power ahead as stock markets weaken 14 Apr 2014 - 12:33 am

By Ole Hansen (Head of Commodity Strategy, Saxo Bank) Commodities rose for a third successive week, thereby going against the stock market downtrend....

IPEC, Prime Trade win Kahramaa tender 13 Apr 2014 - 12:27 am

At the training seminar of the company. Doha: IPEC Ltd, a high technology UK-based company along with Prime Trade, which specialises in electrical...

GCC market cap rises 2.1 percent in March 13 Apr 2014 - 12:21 am

DOHA: The combined market capitalisation of GCC bourses increased 2.1 percent month-on-month to $1,048.2bn in March 2014. With a share of $179.8bn, or...

QIB unveils new smartphone app for online banking security 13 Apr 2014 - 12:20 am

DOHA: Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) has introduced new security measures which make customers’ use of Internet and mobile banking even more secure against...

Qatalum surpasses key targets 13 Apr 2014 - 12:17 am

Doha: Qatalum surpassed a number of targets set out in the Qatalum Improvement Programme — the programme which aims to improve the cash...

World economy on bumpy road to recovery: QNB 13 Apr 2014 - 12:12 am

Doha: The world economy continues to move slowly out of the recovery room from the great recession of 2008-09, with still a number...