VOL. XLIV

No. 12

19-March-2001

QATAR

S&P Raises Qatars Foreign Currency Issuer Credit And Senior Unsecured Debt Rating To BBB+

Standard & Poors (S&P) ratings agency announced on 9 March that it had raised its long-term foreign currency issuer credit and senior unsecured debt ratings for Qatar to BBB+ from BBB, and its long-term local currency issuer credit rating to A- from BBB+. S&P also raised its long-term foreign currency issuer credit rating on Qatar Petroleum (QP), formerly...