DUBAI / Reuters Qatar’s central bank said on Thursday it had sold 1.4 billion riyals ($385 million) of Treasury bills at a monthly auction this week, with yields rising from December’s auction. It sold 750 million riyals of three-month bills at a yield of 1.84 percent, 500 million riyals of six-month at 2.06 percent and 150 million riyals of …

  Bloomberg Watch out for the unexpected in commodities in 2017. Barclays Plc said raw materials markets from energy to metals face the high likelihood of disruptions, giving a laundry list of possible threats including a default by Venezuela, riots in Chile and a trade war with China. “The new politics of populism and protectionist trade policies have the potential …

  Bloomberg The world is getting more hazardous for skeptical analysts, the banks that employ them and investors who rely on their published research. Even by the rough-and-tumble standards of emerging markets, Indonesia’s punishment of JPMorgan Chase & Co. this week for a bearish analysis of the nation’s stock market stands out. The country’s finance ministry cut business ties with …