Depression in long-haul air travel will continue until the “biggest” markets in the world – Brazil, China and India – open up, said Qatar Airways Group chief executive HE Akbar al-Baker.

5G will offer fans a “rich and enhanced” sports experience at the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, said Ooredoo Group’s managing director, Aziz Aluthman Fakhroo, during a panel discussion with Ericsson's President and CEO, Borje Ekholm at the Qatar Economic Forum powered by Bloomberg on Tuesday.

Expecting a "good" fiscal and financial position owing to hardened oil prices, Qatar has rather adopted an "opportunistic" approach in tapping the global debt markets.

India's Bharti Enterprises Tuesday said Qatar, along with other investors, have given "good enough" capital for helping it go ahead with laying cutting edge communication infrastructure, including in the international arena.

Qatar, which has seen foreign direct inflows of $500mn in the last quarter of 2020, is looking at including more sectors under the public private partnership (PPP) mode, a move that will greatly help in enhancing the attractiveness of the country and trigger the growth, especially in the non-hydroca

The bosses of some of the world’s biggest oil companies said crude prices are likely to keep rising because a lack of investment will curtail future supply.

HE Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani, Qatar’s former Prime Minister and now one of Deutsche Bank’s largest shareholders, said it’s time for European banks to consolidate if they want to keep up with American and Chinese peers.

After more than a year stuck on video calls, company executives are ready to hit the skies and meet customers face to face again, fuelling airline industry optimism that business travel is poised to rebound despite the rise of Covid-era workarounds like Zoom.

Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala confirmed that trading activity will remain at lower levels than before unless the mechanisms of globalisation are reviews.

Volkswagen AG is undergoing the world’s largest industrial overhaul for the electric-vehicle age, plotting half a dozen battery plants just in Europe and retooling assembly lines around the globe.

Doha, which is expected to achieve herd immunity by September, would see its economy getting back to normal by the fourth quarter of 2021 and the fiscal stimulus to mitigate the Covid-19 risks had set the ball rolling, according to a top official of the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC).

What is the optimal price for Gulf oil? Or oil in the world as a whole? The answer cannot be reached easily, it is not just an opinion, a belief, or a guess.