VOL. XLII

No. 02

11-January-1999

QATAR

S&P Assigns Qatar BBB+ Local Currency Rating And Affirms ForeignCurrency Ratings

Ratings agency Standard & Poors (S&P) announced on 5January that it had assigned a long-term local currency rating of BBB+ and a short-termlocal currency rating of A-2 to Qatar. S&P also affirmed Qatars BBB long-termforeign currency sovereign credit rating and its A-3 short-term foreign currency rating.According to an S&P statement, these decisions reflect...