Business

Terry Jones shares insights with aspiring entrepreneurs 25 Apr 2017 - 10:14 pm

Qatar Business Incubation Center (QBIC) in collaboration with the US Embassy in Qatar and the DIC, hosted an insightful Speaker Series session by...

Industries Qatar reports QR928m net profit 25 Apr 2017 - 10:14 pm

Industries Qatar (IQ) has reported a net profit of QR928m for the first quarter of the current financial year ended March 31, 2017...

British Royal honour for LULU Group 25 Apr 2017 - 10:14 pm

Y International (UK) Ltd., part of Abu Dhabi based, Lulu Group International has won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2017, the...

Gulf Air appoints Voyager as GSA in Georgia 25 Apr 2017 - 10:10 pm

Gulf Air, the Kingdom of Bahrain’s national carrier, has appointed Voyager Ltd as its General Sales Agent (GSA) in Georgia to represent the...

Qatar Petroleum hosts farewell reception for former senior official 25 Apr 2017 - 10:10 pm

Qatar Petroleum (QP) hosted a farewell reception yesterday in honour of Nabeel Mohammed Al Buenain, who was recently appointed as the CEO of...

QIPF organises workshop on public finance 25 Apr 2017 - 09:59 pm

The Qatar Institute for Public Finance (QIPF), in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance (MoF), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...

US new-home sales rise to highest since July 25 Apr 2017 - 09:59 pm

London: Purchases of new US homes unexpectedly increased in March to an eight-month high, indicating housing demand remained strong at the start of...

Masraf Al Rayan records QR510m net profit 25 Apr 2017 - 01:40 pm

Masraf Al Rayan has delivered a net profit of QR510m for the three months ended March 2017. The bank’s assets grew by 8.2...

Milaha reports net profit of QR263m 25 Apr 2017 - 01:36 pm

Qatar Navigation (Milaha) reported a net profit of QR236m for the first quarter of 2017, down from QR352m reported a year earlier. Operating...

Investcorp adds $160m into US real estate 25 Apr 2017 - 01:28 pm

Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, announced yesterday that its US-based real estate arm has invested in an industrial...

QIB launches first 'Live Teller' in Qatar 25 Apr 2017 - 12:59 pm

Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) has launched its first Interactive Teller Machine (ITM), titled “Live Teller” at its newly relocated Al Gharafa Branch in...

Xpress Money holds training to blue-collar workers 25 Apr 2017 - 12:57 pm

Xpress Money has reached out to over 125,000 blue collar workers across the GCC providing them with focused financial literacy training over the...

VAT could lead to 2% rise in Qatar's revenue 25 Apr 2017 - 10:41 am

Qatar, along with other GCC countries, expects that the introduction of Value Added Tax (VAT) would help grow the revenues of the respective...

Asian markets build on gains as eyes turn to Trump 25 Apr 2017 - 10:39 am

Hong Kong: Asian markets extended gains Tuesday while the euro held up following Emmanuel Macron's first-round presidential election victory in France, with investors...

Stocks, euro surge as France's Macron favoured for presidential win 24 Apr 2017 - 06:57 pm

London: Europe's stock markets and the euro surged Monday, breathing a sigh of relief after moderate candidate Emmanuel Macron won the first round...

Oil slips, as investors fret about rising US drilling 24 Apr 2017 - 06:02 pm

LONDON: Oil prices dipped on Monday, reversing earlier gains as concerns about a pick up in U.S. drilling activity trumped expectations that OPEC...

Qatar stock index drops 43.57 points 24 Apr 2017 - 02:17 pm

Doha: Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) index dropped 43.57 points (0.43 percent) when the bourse closed trading at 10,153.76 points Monday. The volume of...