Bloomberg Denmark’s biggest bank said profit slipped 1 percent in the second quarter, missing analyst estimates, as income all but stagnated. Danske Bank A/S reported net income of 4.26 billion kroner (US$631 million), missing the 4.32 billion-krone average estimate of analysts. Net interest income was broadly unchanged at 5.49 billion kroner, according to the Copenhagen-based lender. The bank said ...

  BLOOMBERG An increasing number of officials at the Bank of Japan are concerned about the sustainability of the current framework for massive monetary stimulus, according to people familiar with the discussions. Some current and former BOJ officials, including dissenting board member Takahide Kiuchi, have for some time publicly said that the central bank’s unprecedented scale of bond purchases and ...

  Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank left its benchmark interest rate on hold after four reductions this year, while signaling there’s room for more easing to bolster growth in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. Governor Agus Martowardojo and his board kept the reference rate at 6.5 percent on Thursday, as forecast by 10 of 26 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. The rest had ...