VOL. XLVI

No 29

21-July-2003

QATAR

RATINGS

S&P Raises Qatars Long-Term Foreign And Local Currency Ratings To A+

Ratings agency Standard & Poors (S&P) on 15 July raised its long-term foreign currency sovereign credit and senior unsecured debt ratings on Qatar to A+ from A-. At the same time it raised its long-term local currency sovereign credit rating on the Gulf state to A+ from A. S&P affirmed its A-1 short-term local and foreign currency sovereign credit ratings for Qatar, and...