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’Creative ways to avoid exposure to LNG cost blowouts
Despite the prospects of entering a golden age for natural gas, investors are looking decidedly less excited about LNG.
Australia is set to take over Qatar as the biggest exporter of LNG within the next decade or so.
Libyan crude, liberated?
On Monday, Qatar gave diplomatic recognition to Libya’s rebels.
On Saturday — Qatar Petroleum had agreed to market Libyan oil controlled by the rebels to international buyers.
Now there’s this via Reuters,
Hedging the Sauds
How to hedge the Saudi monarchy?
We’ve asked it before on FT Alphaville, given how unrest would throw the oil market into extreme volatility. We’re sceptical you could even try, but we’re sure there’s more to it than the ‘all bets are off’ line we often hear about the prospect of Saudi protests.
Porsche plans to add €5bn to capital base
Porsche plans to increase its capital base by at least €5bn in a move to bolster its sagging balance sheet ahead of a planned, though controversial, integration of carmaking operations with its German rival Volkswagen,
Dancing the Gas “Troika”
Talk of a natural-gas alliance is officially back.
Following high-level talks in Tehran, Iran, Qatar and Russia are to forge a so-called “Gas Troika”.
This sort of chatter has been around before,
Qatar considers dropping dollar peg
Qatar is reviewing its currency policy and could revalue or drop the dollar peg as the booming Gulf state struggles to tame inflation while the US reduces interest rates to head off a recession. Qatari
A memo: guide to the Middle East
From the editors,
FAO: All newsreaders, bizcasters and researchers
Re: Apple Dubai
It has come to our attention that there have recently been several holes in our coverage of the Middle Eastern financial situation.
Sainsbury shares slump after talks end
Sainsbury’s shares were left reeling as the Qatar-backed fund Delta Two walked away from its £10.6bn indicative bid for the company, unwilling to stump up a further £500m of equity to clinch the deal.
Credit and pensions prove unpalatable diet for Qataris
How embarrassing. After months of negotiation – over price, over gearing, over pensions – the Qatar-backed £10.6bn bid for Sainsbury got so close to shopping success, only to collapse before reaching the checkout.
Qatari group poised to walk away from Sainsbury
The Qatar Investment Authority was on Sunday last night on the brink of abandoning its £10.6bn bid for J Sainsbury, reports the Times. Sources in Qatar said it was “highly unlikely” that the QIA would press ahead with its bid,
Sainsbury takeover enters critical week
The future of J Sainsbury will be decided in the next 10 days as the Qatar Investment Authority decides whether to plug a £500m shortfall in its takeover bid for the UK supermarket. There is pride at stake,
Whose feet are dragging in the Sainsbury oil-for-food deal?
The Sainsbury buyout creeps on. But now there is an end-game.
The Takeover Panel on Friday slapped a deadline of 5pm, November 8, on the Qatar-backed Delta Two fund to make a firm intention to table an offer,
One hitch in that Qatar-Dubai stake swap
There is much noise being generated about a potential deal between the Gulf emirates of Qatar and Dubai that would see Qatar swap its 10 per cent stake in OMX for part of Dubai’s 28 per cent stake in the LSE.
Sheikhs take stakes update: Qatar says OMX bid ‘serious’
Qatar has given its clearest indication yet that it hopes to dash Borse Dubai’ OMX takeover bid. On Wednesday, the Prime Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani said on US TV that a Qatari takeover bid for OMX was being thought about “seriously”.
Qatar in talks with EADS to buy 10% stake
The Gulf state of Qatar on Monday affirmed its interest in taking a stake of up to 10 per cent in EADS, the European defence and aerospace group which has been pummelled by problems at its Airbus unit,
Very private equity
Qatar, it seems, is perched atop an infinite supply of happy gas, says Lex. On Monday reports linking Qatar’s government investment funds to a possible buy-out of J Sainsbury as well as a strategic stake in EADS,