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			<title>Qatar pockets $1 billion from Barclays bail out</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Qatar Holding clears profit from last year's investment in beleagured Barclays.]]></description>
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			<title>Songbird ups stake in London’s Canary Wharf</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Qatar Holding-backed property group paying £112.5m for additional 8.45%.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar paid €80 per VW ordinary share - report</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Deal to give Gulf state a 17% voting stake in Europe's largest carmaker.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar mulls Poland shipyard buy after deal fails</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 2: Poles under pressure to sell yards to stave off thousands of job losses.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar's Hassad Food has appetite for firms, not farmland</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Chairman says food security via farmland purchase is not the correct strategy.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar Holdings in talks on $6-7bn loan </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bankers say loan being raised 'for general corporate purposes' may be used for possible Porsche stake.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar's Barclays move makes paper profits of $1.12bn</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Gulf state's rescue investment at height of crisis reaps potentially huge dividends.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar only looking at Porsche's VW shares</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[German carmaker had hoped Qatar Investment Authority would buy a stake in Porche's holding company.]]></description>
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			<title>Prince Charles under fire from architects</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UK’s Prince of Wales uses contacts with Qatar’s royal family to scupper building project in London.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar's $2.6bn Energy City sees tenants in 2010</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Infrastructure 70% complete, 25 to 50% of construction contracts awarded by end-2009.]]></description>
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			<title>VW supports Qatar buying stake</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 2: Auto maker says stake would accelerate process to form an integrated group with 10 brands.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar should consider dropping dollar peg - adviser</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Advice based on fears that dollar may decline due to fiscal expansion in US.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Industry experts see state-backed companies slowing their rate of investments.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar investors eye world famous shipyard - report</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Gulf state reportedly keen on Polish shipyard which sparked 1970s solidarity strikes.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar eyes investments in car makers - PM</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister says Gulf state is to hold talks over possible automotive moves.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar ready to pump cash into ailing firms</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[LNG exporter's gov't may aid financial cos & other firms outside the banking sector by directly injecting cash.]]></description>
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			<title>Doha Bank profits surge 20% in Q1</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[But earnings growth set to slow with full year profits forecast to come in 10% higher than previous year.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar's SWF delays investments for six months</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Qatar Investment Authority says it will target food, energy, water later in 2009.]]></description>
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			<title>Electric Qatar</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[From pearl diving to natural gas, Qatar has built itself on the back of its natural resources. ]]></description>
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			<title>The big switch</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Gulf states are reinvesting their petrodollars into green energy in a bid to become dominant energy suppliers.]]></description>
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			<title>Prognosis good for Qatari insurance</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Standard & Poor's remains guardedly optimistic about the prospects for the Qatari insurance sector.]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf funds eye Polish fertiliser makers - official</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sell-off chief says Kuwait and Qatar investment authorities looking to invest.]]></description>
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			<title>Energy to spare</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Qatar's immense gas reserves mean that the Gulf country is uniquely placed to ride the global economic turmoil.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatari Diar eyes full control of Chelsea Barracks project</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[State-owned property firm moves in on $1bn 12.8-acre landmark London development.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar, UK to set up $400mn clean energy fund</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Deal announced during British prime minister's stopover in Qatar as part of Gulf tour.]]></description>
			<category>Energy | News</category>
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			<title>Any port in a financial storm </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Until recently the whipping boys of US politicians, sovereign wealth funds are being invited to the party once again.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar downplays impact of credit crunch</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[PM says gov't will boost investments at home, will not pull out of global holdings. ]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar ups Credit Suisse stake to 8.9%</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Swiss bank details stakes of Qatar and Saudi conglomerate Olayan in stock exchange disclosure.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar's wealth fund to buy capital of listed banks</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Investment authority to purchase up to 20% of listed banks to boost confidence.]]></description>
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