 | Qatari stock investors can
access 35 global markets
QATARI stock market investors
can access around 35 stock markets
across the world using the
same account through a new
service named Mubasher
DUTrade launched by Mubasher
Financial Services (MFS) recently.
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| | Japan´s LNG, oil demand
likely to remain strong |
 JAPAN´s decision to restart
two nuclear reactors idled
for safety checks after the
Fukushima catastrophe
won´t cut the country´s spiraling
fossil-fuel import bill
unless more atomic units are
brought back on line, traders
and analysts said.
Japan´s fuel purchases
soared as reactors were shut
down and put through safety
checks after the meltdowns
at Fukushima in March 2011,
dragging the world´s thirdbiggest
economy into its first
trade deficit in more than
three decades.
The reactors at the Ohi
plant operated by Kansai
Electric Power Co each have
a capacity of 1,180
megawatts and restarting
them would reduce LNG
usage by about 180,000
tonnes per month, according
to Reuters calculations.
If the reactors ... | | | G20 leaders to meet in
shadow of Europe crisis |  WHEN the world´s most powerful
leaders meet in Mexico
next week, there will be no
repeat of the global unity that
helped quell the outbreak of
the financial crisis.
Instead, at this year´s
Group of 20 summit new tensions
between European
leaders over the deepening
eurozone crisis are likely to
add to long-standing differences
between rich and developing
economies.
Only host Mexico has
talked about the chance of
major progress on tackling
problems besetting the world
economy, unlike the sense of
urgency of recent years.
With the focus squarely on
Europe´s crisis, many G20
officials are pessimistic about
the chances of progress on
issues such as preventing the
kind of banking problems
that triggered the ... | | | Lockheed wins $490 mn
deal to buy F-35 parts |  LOCKHEED Martin Corp
has won a US contract worth
$490 million to start buying
parts, material and components
for a seventh batch of
35 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
planes, the Pentagon
announced on Friday.
Lockheed, the Pentagon´s
largest supplier, welcomed
the agreement and said it
would help ensure that the
$396 billion F-35 programme,
which has been
restructured three times in
recent years, continued to
meet its production schedules.
"This is an important milestone
in paving the way for
the acquisition of these aircraft,"
said Lockheed spokeswoman
Laurie Quincy.
News of the order came as
Lockheed continued to hire
temporary workers to maintain
F-35 production at its
plant in Fort Worth, Texas,
where ... | |
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