It's a holiday in Japan, but Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand are all in
But maybe it's a holiday in North Korea too? Whatever it is they aren't flinging around missiles today and 'risk' is liking it. AUD, NZD, even CAD and EUR are all higher, AUD and NZD the outperformers though.
Yen had declined early (USD/JPY higher) and its been stable around 111.20 for the past few hours.
I've been posting all the news etc as its come out (expcept for the weekend, which I recapped earlier on) .... actually, to save you looking anything up here's a mini-wrap of the headlines over the weekend and Monday so far:
- Big day coming up: BoE's Carney speaking the highlight but also BoC & IMF speakers
- China data for August: All China new homes prices up 8.3% y/y
- PBOC sets USD/CNY central rate at 6.5419 (vs. yesterday at 6.5423)
- Option expiries for Monday 18 September 2017
- Singapore data - exports surge (again)
- Japanese government bond futures open for trade
- 4 reasons to be very wary of the CFTC currency positioning data
- China press: GDP growth may slow a little in Q4, projects 6.8% in 2017 as a whole
- UK data - Rightmove house prices in September -1.2% m/m (prior -0.9%)
- Barclays preview of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting this week
- New Zealand data - services PMI for August 57.3 (prior 56.0)
- Goldman Sachs preview of the Bank of Japan meeting this week
- W/E: BIS says don't ignore Bitcoin - it could pose a financial system stability threat
- Asian market holidays today (Japan closed)
- ECB's chief economist Praet says substantial monetary stimulus is still needed
- W/E: More from the BIS, puzzling over inflation
- W/E: BIS says global debt may be understated by $13 trillion
- W/e: Greece should not put off agreed bailout reforms says ECB official
- W/e - Boris Johnson seen as undercutting Prime Minister Theresa May on Brexit
- NHC says - Maria becomes a hurricane
- Trade ideas thread - Monday 18 September 2017
- Economic data due from Asia today
- US Sec State to meet with Russian foreign min at 0100GMT
- Japan press: "Abe set to call October election"
- Monday opening FX rates - foreign exchange prices, early indications
Weekend:
- Who leads the race to be the next Federal Reserve Chairman?
- US UN Ambassador Haley: UN has exhausted options on North Korea
- A big underlying assumption of quantitative easing is wrong
- Politics on the agenda: Eight events to watch Monday
- Politics as a young man's game: 31-year-old is favourite for Italy's Five-Star Movement
- Saudi Arabia is becoming even more of a police state
- New Zealand - big week coming up & an election that's too close to call
- Morgan Stanley on asymmetric
From that lot there is not too much 'big news' to shift currencies, but out 'em all togher and here we are!
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