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Occidental Sees $200m Q1 Hit Due To Qatar Maintenance

First-quarter sales volumes will be down by around 40,000 bpd partly due to production issues in the MENA region.

Qatar’s CBQ To Buy 71% Of Turkey’s Alternatifbank

The value of the transaction is seen at around $460 million.

Qatar Not Considering Bid For Marks & Spencer – Source

Reports claimed Qatar Investment Authority was seeking a consortium for an £8 billion takeover of the British retail store.

Qatar To Increase FIFA 2022 Spending In 2013

Government spending related to the World Cup will hit almost $115 billion between now and 2022, says new study.

Qatar Seeks Partners for $12.1bn Marks & Spencer bid

Qatar Investment Authority has reportedly approached several large private equity houses to jointly bid for British retailer Marks & Spencer.

Qatar’s Ooredoo In Loan Talks For Maroc Tel Bid

The Qatari firm is in talks with around 9-10 banks about committed financing for a bid.

Societe Generale’s Egypt Arm Net Income Up 3%

Last month Egypt’s financial regulator approved an offer by Qatar National Bank for NSGB.

Qatar Makes First New Gas Find In Over 40 Years

The discovery was made at the 4-North offshore block near Qatar’s massive North Field.

GCC Tourists Spend Dhs2,440 Per Head In The UK

Visitors from Qatar and Kuwait were found to be the biggest spenders.

Qatar Picks Sarkozy To Lead Wealth Fund

France’s ex-President would take a non-executive role to help direct where to invest $650 million.

Qatar Says $1bn Islamic Bank To Be Set Up “Soon”

Qatar signed an MoU with Islamic Development Bank and the Dallah Albaraka Group last year to establish a new international Islamic bank.

Qatar Says No More Aid To Egypt For Now

Qatar has been a key source of foreign aid to Egypt since its 2011 revolution giving $5 billion.

REVEALED: Top 10 Salaries In Qatar

The 2013 Gulf Business Salary Survey reveals the highest paying jobs in the country.

UAE Leads MENA In Global Travel & Tourism Report

The country ranked 28th overall in the World Economic Forum’s Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2013.

Qatar To Sell 4bn Riyals Of Three And Five Year Bonds

The Gulf state’s central bank will offer local banks 3 billion riyals worth of bonds and 1 billion riyals worth of Shariah-compliant notes.

Shared 2022 World Cup Is ‘Crazy’ – UAE Soccer Chief

UEFA president Platini has suggested Qatar shares the 2022 World Cup throughout the Middle East and moves it outside of Summer.

Yohan Blake To Run At Doha’s Diamond League Meeting

The world’s second fastest man will compete at the meeting on May 10 in Qatar – the first of 14 Diamond League fixtures.

Dreamliner Grounding Impacts Qatar Airways’ New Routes

Chicago schedules amended to three-a-week and Chengdu is put on hold

Qatari Telecom Firm Ooredoo Posts 14.6% Rise In Q4 Profit

Profit was boosted by higher revenue in Qatar, Indonesia and Iraq.

Gulf Investors To Bid $2.3bn For Arsenal FC

Qatar and UAE-backed investors are expected to make what will be the largest ever bid for a football club.

Qatar Finds Vast Building Plans Need More Than Money

Two years after Qatar won the right to host the World Cup, little work on many of the big projects has actually started.

Lionel Messi Named Global Brand Ambassador For Ooredoo

The soccer star will be supporting various programmes to increase life chances of young people in MENA and South-East Asia.

Qatar Hires UBS For Possible $3bn VTB Deal

Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund plans to invest in the Russian state-owned bank.

Qatar Telecom Rebrands As Ooredoo

All operations in which Qtel owns a controlling interest will rebranded under the new name.

QNB Bid For 100% Of Soc Gen Approved

Qatar National Bank had planned to buy 77 per cent of National Societe Generale Bank last year.

Industries Qatar Q4 Net Misses Forecasts

The Gulf’s second-largest chemical producer made a net profit of 1.8 billion riyals ($494.4 million) for the fourth quarter.

Qatar Holding To Seek Credit Ratings This Year

The Qatar sovereign has ratings of Aa2 from Moody’s and AA from S&P, and was in the bond market last summer with a $4 billion sukuk issue.

Qatar Gives $100m In Humanitarian Aid To Syria

Donor countries meeting in Kuwait last month pledged more than $1.5 billion to aid Syrians affected by the civil war.

Qatar Airways Becomes First ME Airline To Fly To Cambodia

Alongside funnelling east-west business traffic via Doha, the new route will appeal to leisure travelers.

Qatar’s Doha Bank To Launch $426m Rights Issue

The issue will be split equally between a local offering and global depositary receipts (GDRs) in London.