Bloomberg As peers in the US and Europe take a dovish turn, Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda signalled he’s unfazed as bond yields in his own country get caught up in the global shift lower. “There is no need to be extremely and strictly mindful about a concrete range for the rate” on Japan’s benchmark 10-year bond yield, …

Bloomberg Norway’s central bank is on a lonely march towards higher interest rates, torn between an oil industry running at full speed on its home turf and slowing growth abroad. Governor Oystein Olsen’s commitment to tightening has surprised markets with a more hawkish outlook three meetings in a row. He raised the key rate for a third time in less …

Bloomberg Bank of Montreal (BMO) Chief Executive Officer Darryl White said last September that he’d like a third of his bank’s earnings to come from the US in three to five years. It was a matter of months before the goal was reached. Now he expects things to settle down a bit. “I wouldn’t have put a three-to-five-year target out …