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Qatar · Aug 10, 2026 · 3 min read
The stock of inward foreign direct investment in Qatar reached one hundred and seventy two point two billion riyals at the end…
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Qatar · Aug 6, 2026 · 3 min read
Qatar's total international reserves and foreign currency liquidity stood at 262.114 billion riyals at the end of June 2026, up 1.24 percent…
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Qatar · Aug 3, 2026 · 4 min read
Qatar’s General Tax Authority opened registration on 2 August for the global and domestic minimum tax, giving multinational groups three months from…
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Macro · Jul 23, 2026 · 8 min read
First Abu Dhabi Bank and Qatar National Bank have both reported for the first six months of 2026, and the results present…
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Macro · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
The value of real-estate sales in Qatar was about 1.69 billion riyals across 541 deals in June 2026, according to the monthly…
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Global · Jul 20, 2026 · 5 min read
Spain are world champions. They beat Argentina 1-0 after extra time, through a Ferran Torres goal, in Sunday's 2026 World Cup final…
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Global · Jul 18, 2026 · 3 min read
The International Monetary Fund expects several Gulf economies, including Kuwait, to contract in 2026 as the disruption to shipping through the Strait…
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Markets · Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
QNB Group, the Qatari lender locked in a long-running contest with First Abu Dhabi Bank to be the Middle East's biggest bank,…
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Macro · Jul 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Qatar's total international reserves and foreign-currency liquidity rose to 262.1 billion riyals, about 71.7 billion dollars, at the end of June, up…
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Energy & Commodities · Jul 6, 2026 · 4 min read
Qatar has moved to channel its abundant gas into a new wave of downstream industry, with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry…
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Kuwait · Jul 5, 2026 · 6 min read
The Gulf's non-oil economies ended June on sharply different tracks, according to the latest S&P Global purchasing managers' surveys released on 5…
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Energy & Commodities · Jun 29, 2026 · 3 min read
QatarEnergy's flagship US gas venture has moved a step closer to higher output after the Golden Pass LNG terminal in Texas received…
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The stock of inward foreign direct investment in Qatar reached one hundred and seventy two point two billion riyals at the end of the first quarter of 2026, up three point three percent on the fourth quarter of 2025, the National Planning Council said on 9 August in a survey compiled with Qatar Central Bank….
Qatar’s total international reserves and foreign currency liquidity stood at 262.114 billion riyals at the end of June 2026, up 1.24 percent from 258.898 billion riyals a year earlier. Official international reserves rose 1.48 percent, or 2.963 billion riyals, to 202.629 billion riyals. The composition moved considerably more than the total. Component of official reserves,…
Qatar’s General Tax Authority opened registration on 2 August for the global and domestic minimum tax, giving multinational groups three months from the activation of the service on the Dhareeba platform to complete their initial registration. The rules themselves have been in force since fiscal years beginning on or after 1 January 2025, which makes…
First Abu Dhabi Bank and Qatar National Bank have both reported for the first six months of 2026, and the results present a more nuanced picture than a simple ranking of the two largest banks by assets in the Middle East and North Africa. At the end of June Qatar National Bank was the larger…
The value of real-estate sales in Qatar was about 1.69 billion riyals across 541 deals in June 2026, according to the monthly bulletin of the Real Estate Registration Department at the Ministry of Justice, carried by the Qatar News Agency. Sale activity broadened during the month, with the number of transactions rising from 425 in…
Spain are world champions. They beat Argentina 1-0 after extra time, through a Ferran Torres goal, in Sunday’s 2026 World Cup final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, to win their second world title, according to CNBC. Yet the match that crowned Spain was also the centrepiece of a much larger commercial operation, one that…
The International Monetary Fund expects several Gulf economies, including Kuwait, to contract in 2026 as the disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz weighs on oil output and export routes, before a sharp recovery in 2027, according to its July World Economic Outlook Update. The Fund cut projected growth for the wider Middle East…
QNB Group, the Qatari lender locked in a long-running contest with First Abu Dhabi Bank to be the Middle East’s biggest bank, posted a 3.2% rise in first-half profit while remaining the smaller of the two by assets. Net income climbed to 8.67 billion riyals ($2.4 billion) in the six months through June, the Doha-based…
Qatar’s total international reserves and foreign-currency liquidity rose to 262.1 billion riyals, about 71.7 billion dollars, at the end of June, up 1.24 percent from a year earlier, the Qatar Central Bank reported. The modest headline rise masked a marked shift in the composition of the reserves, as a build-up in gold and deposits with…
Qatar has moved to channel its abundant gas into a new wave of downstream industry, with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and QatarEnergy signing terms of reference on 5 July for a joint mechanism to allocate hydrocarbon-derived resources to industrial investment and to develop a new medium-industries zone in Mesaieed Industrial City. The step…