Doha / Reuters Qatari banks Masraf Al Rayan and Doha Bank plan to launch the Gulf state’s first exchange-traded funds (ETFs) by the end of 2016, a move that should boost capital flows into the local stock market, a bourse official said. The launch of ETFs – portfolios of stocks that track an index – could boost a market …

  Bloomberg Some of Europe’s largest utilities are choosing to finance renewable energy projects alone instead of involving banks, leading to an unexpected gain in cash flowing into the industry that’s struggling to cope with subsidy cuts. Investment in clean energy in Europe, rose 2 percent to $41.2 billion in the first nine months of this year compared with the …

  Bloomberg UK government proposals to make companies list their foreign workers would harm the economy because they are “anti-business and dangerously naive,” more than 100 leaders of small and medium-sized businesses said in a letter to the Daily Telegraph newspaper. “The ability to hire both British and non-British people has historically helped business grow by bringing in varied skills …