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All rights reserved.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:02:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>38</ttl><image><title>Zawya.com | Middle East Business News and Company Directory</title><width>144</width><height>76</height><link>http://www.zawya.com/equities/qa</link><url>http://www.zawya.com/images/newsletter_zawya_logo.gif</url></image><item><title>Qatari stock market remains bullish for 2nd consecutive day </title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091119070254</link><description>Trading at the Qatari stock market remained bullish for the second day in a row on Wednesday with the main idex putting on 138 points, settling upon the session closing at 7,127 points.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:19:02 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">KUNA (Kuwait News Agency) </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091119070254</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>Kuwait index at 33-week low, TASI slightly down</title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091119033409</link><description> Kuwaiti mobile telephone firm Zain&apos;s and logistics provider Agility took a beating on Wednesday and hammered the index to a 33-week low.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:05:00 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">Arab News </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091119033409</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>Qatar Cb says global bond offer a success </title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091119032242</link><description> The Commercial Bank of Qatar (&apos;Commercialbank&apos;) yesterday announced the successful closing of its inaugural global bond offering and its first subordinated public bond issuance. </description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:47:07 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">The Peninsula </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091119032242</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>Qatar Exchange&apos;s bull run continues </title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091119032413</link><description>The main index of the Qatar Exchange breached the psychologically critical level of 7,000 points to 7,127 again yesterday. </description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:46:39 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">The Peninsula </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091119032413</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>Fitch Affirms QIB&apos;s (A) Rating/Outlook Stable</title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091118124940</link><description>Fitch Ratings today announced Qatar Islamic Bank&apos;s (QIB) ratings as Long-term Issuer Default (IDR) &apos;A&apos; with Stable Outlook, Short-term IDR &apos;F1,&apos; Individual &apos;C,&apos; Support &apos;1&apos; and Support Rating Floor &apos;A.&apos; </description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:52:40 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">Press Release </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091118124940</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>Barwa, Diar make &apos;green&apos; moves</title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091118042052</link><description>Barwa Real Estate Company (Barwa) and Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company (Qatari Diar) have adopted an advanced sustainable development rating system -- the Qatar Sustainability Assessment System (QSAS) -- to implement green buildings principles in all of their future projects.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:38:01 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">The Peninsula </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091118042052</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>Qatari stock market closes Tuesday&apos;s session with hike </title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091117115545</link><description>Qatari bourse ended Tuesday trading with a hike of 95 points settling at 6,989 points. Trading involved 13.6 million stocks, valued at 355 million riyals.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:59:59 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">KUNA (Kuwait News Agency) </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091117115545</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>Vodafone targeting over 700,000 customers by 2012</title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091117032217</link><description>Vodafone Qatar hopes to make profits within two years. It was incorrectly reported in this newspaper yesterday that the company expected to make profits of QR20m in the next fiscal (2010-11).</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:17:21 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">The Peninsula </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091117032217</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>Barwa recovers $40m from South African firm</title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091117035345</link><description>Some 75 percent of a loan worth $40m the Barwa Real Estate Company gave to a South African firm has been recovered, company&apos;s chairman and CEO, Ghanem bin Saad Al Saad said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:04:41 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">The Peninsula </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091117035345</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>Qatari Diar, French Developers Sign Deal</title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091117031811</link><description>Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company, an international leader in sustainable development, announced yesterday the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Bouygues Construction SA and Bouygues Batiment International.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:55:20 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">The Peninsula </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091117031811</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>Vodafone Qatar expects QR20m profit next year </title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091116074209</link><description>Vodafone Qatar expects to start making profits of around QR20m in the next financial year 2010-2011, the company&apos;s chief executive officer said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:37:54 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">The Peninsula </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091116074209</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>Bouygues says it wins big contract in Qatar</title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidANA20091116T121003ZLQA84</link><description>French construction firm Bouygues Construction said on Monday it had won a 950-million-euro (1.4 billion-dollar) contract in the Gulf state of Qatar to build an office and shopping complex.</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">AFP </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ANA20091116T121003ZLQA84</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>GCC bourses see overvaluation of shares</title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091115044530</link><description>After reeling under pressure during fourth quarter of 2008 and first quarter of 2009, the GCC markets picked up in the third quarter and continuing the upward march. Despite rise in indices, the DFM, Kuwait and Bahrain bourses recorded drop in their market capitalisation.</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:28:03 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">Emirates Business 24/7 </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091115044530</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>S&amp;P hopeful Qatar will bail out Nakilat</title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091115050228</link><description>Credit ratings agency Standard &amp; Poor&apos;s (S&amp;P) said there is a high likelihood that Qatar would provide timely support to LNG shipping company Nakilat in the event of financial distress.</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:18:37 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">Emirates Business 24/7 </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091115050228</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>QNB to Commence Syrian Operations on November 15</title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091114093548</link><description>QNB announced that it will commence operations in Syria, tomorrow the 15th of November 2009, with the opening of the first branch of QNB-Syria in Damascus, located on Baghdad Street. </description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:55:21 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">Press Release </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091114093548</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>Kuwait: Performance of GCC markets &apos;end in red&apos; </title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091114084839</link><description>The performance of- GCC markets were depressed during Oct-09 as all GCC markets ended the month in red. 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Poor&apos;s Rating Services said today that it affirmed its &apos;A+&apos; long-term corporate credit rating on Qatar-based liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipping company Nakilat. </description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:39:01 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">Press Release </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091112142830</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>Simmons &amp; Simmons advises Commercial Bank of Qatar on its $1.6bn inaugural global bond offering</title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091112135457</link><description>Simmons &amp; Simmons has advised Commercial Bank of Qatar (Commercialbank) on their US$1.6bn inaugural global bond offering and its first public subordinated bond issuance. </description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:28:28 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">Press Release </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091112135457</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>Commercialbank sets bond prices </title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091112034108</link><description> Commercialbank, through CBQ Finance Limited, one of its wholly owned subsidiaries, priced $600m 10-year Subordinated Lower Tier 2 notes at 7.5 percent and $1bn 5-year Senior Notes at 5 percent. </description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:46:29 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">The Peninsula </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091112034108</guid><category>Subscription</category></item><item><title>Kuwait stocks biggest loser in Gulf; 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