Surge in Qatar’s listed govt bond value - The Peninsula Qatar:
The value of Qatar’s listed government bonds saw a staggering growth of 94.21 percent to QR12.57bn in 2017, from QR6.4bn in the previous year. Listed T-bills value increased by 32.26 percent to QR12.75bn from QR9.64 in 2016, Qatar Financial Markets Authority (QFMA) has revealed.
In its annual report released yesterday, the market regulatory body noted the value of traded government bonds also increased by 17.05 percent year-on-year, from QR3bn to QR3.55bn.
The year 2017 saw the share of total equity ownership of Qatari investors, individual and institutional, slipping to 91.09 percent from 91.47 percent on year-on-year. The share of equity ownership percent of foreign investors rose to 8.91 percent from 8.5 percent. While foreign individual investors’ equity ownership rose to 2.19 percent from 2.10 percent, institutional investors’ share increased to 6.72 percent from 6.43 percent.
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