Bloomberg Southeast Asia’s best-performing currency is giving Indonesia’s central bank the opportunity to continue increasing foreign reserves from a four-year high, a senior official said. “If we see the chance to build our reserves, then surely we will take advantage of it,” Doddy Zulverdi, Bank Indonesia’s executive director for monetary management, said in an interview at his Jakarta office ...

  DUBAI / DOHA / Reuters Qatar’s central bank is offering 3 billion riyals ($825 million) of government bonds in its third domestic bond sale this year, according to a circular seen by Reuters. Bids for the latest offer were due on Monday, with allocations to be made the following day, according to the offer document. The offer is made ...

  Kuwait City / AFP National Bank of Kuwait, the emirate’s largest lender, said on Monday its third quarter net profit rose 6.5 percent mainly thanks to growing public spending despite low oil revenues. The bank posted a net profit of 68.7 million dinars ($227.5 million) for July to September this year compared to 64.5 million dinars ($213.6 million) for ...