South Korea's Vice Fin Min is back on the newswires with warnings authorities there are monitoring market volatility

  • also monitoring moves in long-term interest rates.

He is not singling out FX traders this time, he often has scornful comments on 'herd-like' behaviour for us. :-(

On the economy:

  • sluggish jobs data may continue through to February
  • will soon reveal measures to revitalise consumption