Business / Qatar Business

Gulf Air opens new sales office in Hyderabad 29 Dec 2015 - 02:10 am

Officials at the opening of the office in Hyderabad. Doha: Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, recently opened a...

Arab power, water forum in February 29 Dec 2015 - 02:08 am

Officials announcing details about the conference. Baher Amin DOHA: Qatar Society of Engineers (QSE) in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy and Industry...

Industrials, telecom lift Qatari stocks 28 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

DOHA: Qatari stocks edged higher yesterday driven by industrials and telecom stocks. The benchmark index gained 44.08 points or 0.43 percent to finish...

Forbes Lux in Qatar 28 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Sanjiv Arora, Ambassador of India to Qatar, along with Sajed Jassim Sulaiman, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Video Home and Electronics; C V Rappai,...

S&P assigns ‘A-’ rating for Al Koot Insurance 28 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

S&P assigns ‘A-’ rating for Al Koot Insurance DOHA: The Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has assigned a rating of ‘A-’ (stable) to Al...

Qatar’s trade surplus touches QR10.9bn 28 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

DOHA: The value of Qatar’s total export of goods, including exports of goods of domestic origin and re-exports, stood at QR21.3bn in November,...

Key downstream projects in pipeline: Opec 28 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

By Satish Kanady DOHA: The Middle East’s petroleum industry has lined up a number of significant projects in the downstream sector. Of these,...

QIIB, CIH in joint venture to set up Moroccan bank 27 Dec 2015 - 01:32 am

A view of QIIB headquarters in Doha. DOHA: Qatar’s leading Islamic bank QIIB has signed a joint venture (JV) agreement with CIH Bank...

Qatar Rail, Qatar Cool in deal for cooling metro Red Line stations 27 Dec 2015 - 01:29 am

Saad Ahmed Al Muhannadi, CEO of Qatar Rail, and Yasser Salah Al Jaidah, CEO of Qatar Cool at the signing ceremony in Doha...

Local food prices may rise slightly in 2016, 2017 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

DOHA: The transmission of global food prices, which are expected to fall slightly in 2016 before recovering in 2017, into the Qatari economy...

Gulf Air records positive results in Q3 2015 survey 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

: Gulf Air, Bahrain’s national carrier, yesterday released the results of its quarterly Customer Satisfaction Survey results for Q3 2015. Customer comments for...

Qatar Central Securities Depository launches SMS service 26 Dec 2015 - 10:56 am

Doha: Qatar Central Securities Depository (QCSD) announced the launch of SMS Service and Daily E-Statement as of Sunday, December 27. Through these services,...

Qatar stock index gains 345.80 points past week 25 Dec 2015 - 01:39 am

DOHA: Qatar Exchange index gained 345.80 points, or 3.49 percent, during the past week when the bourse closed yesterday at 10,258.72 points. Trading...

Qatar International Islamic Bank, CIH to set up bank in Morocco 24 Dec 2015 - 12:36 pm

DUBAI: Qatar International Islamic Bank (QIIB) said it had signed an agreement with Moroccan lender Credit Immobilier et Hotelier S.A. (CIH Bank) to...

N-KOM, Angelicoussis Group in landmark deal 24 Dec 2015 - 01:33 am

Nakilat Managing Director Abdullah Al Sulaiti (left) and Angelicoussis Group of Companies CEO John Angelicoussis. DOHA: Nakilat - Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM)...

Ooredoo Qatar, Nokia Networks boost data speed up to 375 Mbps 24 Dec 2015 - 01:27 am

DOHA: Ooredoo Qatar and Nokia Networks yesterday launched LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) three-band carrier aggregation technology on the Ooredoo Supernet. Nokia technology enables the operator...

Demand will reach 30.70m bpd in 2020: Opec 24 Dec 2015 - 01:26 am

LONDON: Global demand for Opec crude will reach 30.70 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2020, lower than 30.90 million bpd next year,...

Thumama substation begins operations 24 Dec 2015 - 12:27 am

Newly-built Al Thumama substation. DOHA: Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation (Kahramaa) yesterday announced to have successfully commissioned its multi-million dollar ‘Al Thumama...