Qatar’s Ambassador to US rings NYSE closing bell

Qatar’s Ambassador to the US, rang the closing bell on the first day of trading in 2011 at New York Stock Exchange on Monday. It was attended by Nassir Abdul Aziz al-Nasser, Qatar’s Ambassador to the UN, Tariq al-Ansari, Counsellor to the Permanent Mission of Qatar to the UN, Saif al-Mansoori, deputy CEO of Qatar Exchange (QE) and Hussain al-Abdulla, QE’s director of sales and marketing. The ringing of the bell at the beginning and closing of each trading day in NYSE is a common and traditional practice and one of the highly publicised events