Business

Starwood enters Romania market 03 Sep 2015 - 12:00 am

Doha: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc announced its market entry in Romania with the opening of the Sheraton Bucharest Hotel, centrally located...

Asia doing pretty well despite China: IMF chief 03 Sep 2015 - 12:00 am

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde speaking during the Asia Finance Conference in Jakarta yesterday. Jakarta: International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said yesterday...

QCB Governor cautions against aftershocks 03 Sep 2015 - 12:00 am

QCB Governor H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Saud Al Thani (fourth left) with other central bank governors of GCC in Doha yesterday. DOHA:...

Qatar fertilizer industry grows 143% 02 Sep 2015 - 04:33 pm

DUBAI: Qatar’s fertilizer market has nearly tripled in the last ten years, resulting in a manufacturing portfolio that places it as the GCC’s...

Markets on edge as policymakers flex muscles 02 Sep 2015 - 01:40 pm

A man shelters under an umbrella as he walks past the London Stock Exchange in London, Britain August 24, 2015. LONDON: Fresh government...

Australia keeps rates at record low 2pc 02 Sep 2015 - 12:00 am

A composite image of an Airbus A330 of Aeroflot (top) and a Boeing 747 of Transaero at the resort island of Phuket, southern...

Canada falls into recession 02 Sep 2015 - 12:00 am

Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at Laurel Steel in Burlington, Ontario, yesterday. Ottawa: Canada fell into recession in the first half of...

AfDB chief to focus on powering Africa 02 Sep 2015 - 12:00 am

The new president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Akinwumi Adesina (right) of Nigeria speaks next to Zambia’s Minister of Finance Alexander Chikwanda...

China contracts, eurozone and US slow 02 Sep 2015 - 12:00 am

Employees work on an assembly line producing Mercedes-Benz cars at a factory of Beijing Benz Automotive Co in Beijing. Activity in China’s manufacturing...

Be vigilant on China as global economic growth weakening: IMF 02 Sep 2015 - 12:00 am

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde (left) gestures to Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo during a press conference at the presidential palace in Jakarta yesterday. ...

QDB launches Al-Fikra for start-ups 02 Sep 2015 - 12:00 am

Officials attending a press briefing to announce the programme. Salim Matramkot DOHA: Qatar Development Bank (QDB) yesterday announced the launch of the fourth...

Global woes hit Qatar stocks for second month 02 Sep 2015 - 12:00 am

By Satish Kanady DOHA: Weighed by oil slump and China worries, Qatari stocks ended in red for the second consecutive month in August....

Qatari bourse closes 1.28pc lower; market cap declines by QR5.16bn 01 Sep 2015 - 04:42 pm

DOHA: Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) index dropped 148.47 points, or 1.28 percent, on Tuesday when it closed at 11,415.09 points. The market capitalization...

Japan factory output down in July 01 Sep 2015 - 12:00 am

Flames shoot out of a chimney at a petrochemical plant in Kawasaki near Tokyo yesterday. Tokyo: Japan’s factory output contracted a worse-than-expected 0.6...

India’s economy grows by 7pc in first quarter 01 Sep 2015 - 12:00 am

Labourers work at the construction site of a residential complex in Kolkata yesterday. New Delhi: India’s economy grew by a slower than expected...

Eni open to selling stake in Zohr gas field 01 Sep 2015 - 12:00 am

The Eni logo at a building. MILAN: Italy’s Eni is open to selling a stake in its “supergiant” Zohr gas field discovery off...

Qapco hosts Total officials at MIC plants 01 Sep 2015 - 12:00 am

Officials pose for a group picture. Doha: Qapco recently hosted Xavier Bontemps, Total’s Senior Vice-President of Polymers Business Unit, and Philippe Montagne, Vice-President...