Asiacell net profit up 31pc in 2012Iraqi mobile operator Asiacell, majority-owned by Qatari telecom group Ooredoo, posted a 31-per cent rise in annual profit in its first results as a listed company, helped by an increase in customers and revenues. More… |
Asiacell shares double bourse market capThe market capitalisation of the Baghdad bourse doubled in February to reach $9.2 billion, boosted by Asiacell share trading, which started in early February. As the first major flotation since a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam H More… |
Qtel tightens Asiacell grip after IPOQatar Telecom used Iraqi unit Asiacell's $1.27 billion share sale, Iraq's largest ever flotation, to raise its stake to 64 percent in a vote of confidence in a country recovering from year More… |
Iraq's Asiacell shares surge on debutShares in Iraqi mobile telephone operator Asiacell jumped the maximum 10 percent in their Baghdad bourse debut on Monday after investors in the company raised $1.24 billion in Iraq's largest-e More… |
Iraq's $1.35bn Asiacell share offer sold outA $1.35 billion sale of shares in Iraqi mobile telephone firm Asiacell, the country's first major public offer of equity since the US-led invasion in 2003, was fully subscribed, the stock exch More… |
Iraq bourse braces for milestone $1.3 billion IPO(The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are her own.) Iraq's bourse is bracing for a milestone $1.3 billion initial public offering. The share offer by the country's number-two mobile opera More… |
Qtel to raise stake in Asiacell's Iraq share offerQatar Telecom (Qtel) will raise its 53.9 percent stake in subsidiary Asiacell as part of the Iraqi firm's $1.35 billion share sale, the largest ever stock listing on the Baghdad bourse, an exchange official said on Thursday. Q More… |
Iraq's Asiacell share offer to be a sell-outIraqi mobile operator Asiacell's $1.35 billion share sale will be fully subscribed, bookrunner Rabee Securities said, though a top bourse official and some local investors were more cautious about the country's largest ever stock listing More… |
Asiacell launches offer of 25pc share capitalAsiacell Communications, a leading provider of mobile telecom services in Iraq with 9.9 million subscribers, has opened for subscription 67.5 billion shares, representing 25 per cent of the company’s share capital. The offer More… |
Iraq's Asiacell to raise $1.35bn in IPOIraq's Asiacell, a unit of Qatar Telecom, said it planned to raise at least $1.35 billion by floating 25 percent of its share capital on the Baghdad stock market, in what would be the country's largest initial public of More… |








