Reuters Qatar’s central bank is offering 3 billion riyals ($825 million) of government bonds in its first domestic bond sale this year, suggesting liquidity conditions are easing in a banking system pressured by low oil and gas prices. A central bank official said results of the offer would be known on Tuesday. If it succeeds, it would be the …

  AFP Japan’s economy stagnated in the second quarter, data showed Monday, falling below expectations and rekindling worries about the government’s faltering bid to stoke a recovery. Growth in the world’s third largest economy was flat at 0.0 percent quarter-on-quarter, missing economists’ predictions for a 0.2 percent expansion in the April-June period as weak exports and a fall in business …

  Bloomberg Singaporeans are the most pessimistic about the economy in seven years as they’ve grown more gloomy about their quality of life, their income and job security. Mastercard’s consumer confidence index for the city-state plunged to 33.6 in the first half of 2016, down from 44.3 for the previous six months, the company said in a statement on Aug. …