Profit booking pressure in the telecom and banking sectors on Thursday further dragged the Qatar Stock Exchange to make it settle below 9,800 levels.

Worsening trade tensions and exchange of tariffs could cause ‘significant economic cost’ to the global economy, an International Monetary Fund spokesman warned Thursday.

Buoyant exports will drive Qatar’s current account surplus to nearly 9% of the country’s GDP in 2018; an increase of around 5%, a new QNB report has shown.

The Qatar Stock Exchange is betting that more initial public offerings, especially by family-owned companies, will improve liquidity.

Qatar Airways Group chief executive Akbar al-Baker toured the Boeing factory in Everett, Washington on Tuesday with Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and chief executive officer Kevin McAllister.

Qatar Petroleum (QP) is supporting the Made in Qatar 2018 exhibition in Oman as a partner of the event’s energy sector, Qatar Chamber announced in a statement.

With credit continuing to flow, liquidity ample and asset quality and profitability robust, Qatar’s banking sector remains “resilient and healthy”, QNB said in its ‘Qatar Economic Insight – September’.

Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) has won two awards from the ‘New Age Banking & Finance Awards 2018’ as part of the seventh edition of the New Age Banking Summit Qatar, which was supported by Qatar Central Bank, and Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority (QFCRA).

QIIB has won the “Best Bank in Qatar Award in Liquidity” at the ‘New Age Banking Summit’, which was held in Doha on Tuesday.

The Qatar International Centre of Conciliation and Arbitration (Qicca) has organised a seminar on morals and qualities of the arbitrator at the Qatar Chamber headquarters.

Nakilat is participating in the Gastech 2018 Exhibition and Conference, which will conclude today in Barcelona, Spain.

Banks need to manage the change by redefining their business models in view of the industry’s transition from being old traditional branch business to highly advanced automated customer centric experience, according to Doha Bank group chief executive Dr R Seetharaman.