Good morning, afternoon, or evening depending on where you are on the globe, and welcome to the beginning of the new, improved FX week.

At this time, with only the New Zealand market open, market liquidity is super thin compared to most other times of the trading week, so please be extra careful out there.

Here’s the early price guide so we can see what those Kiwis are up to:

monday 18 August 2014

Again, the usual caveats apply – it is relatively illiquid and prices can move sharply on not very much at all.

Bank of England governor Carney was reported in the weekend press in the UK:

UPDATED: BoE Carney – Says he would not wait for real wages to turn positive before raising interest rates

BOE’s Carney says UK is more than “halfway to recovery”