Aside from the Japanese verbal diarrhoea-ists out right now, there’s a plethora of central bank talkers and others speaking today. Here’s the rundown.

  • Right now EU foreign ministers are having a meeting over all things Ukraine
  • 09.00 gmt Bank of Portugal’s Carlos Costa speaks on Banco Espirito Santo
  • 09.00 gmt ECB’s Yves Mersch speaks at a risk management conference in Frankfurt
  • 09.30 gmt BOE’s Any Haldane jawbones at the Royal Society of Medicine conference
  • 13.30 gmt ECB’s Peter Praet speaks at Credit Suisse’s European Macro conference in London
  • 14.00 gmt ECB’s Mario Draghi gives his quarterly testimony to EU parliament
  • 14.45 gmt ECB’s Benoit Coeure speaks at European-Chinese banking day in Frankfurt
  • 15.00 gmt Fed’s Charles Evans is at an agricultural conference but not expected to touch on mon pol

It’s Euro finance week in Europe so we can expect a load of waffle out of there all week. Magic.