Month: April 2018

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  Comments crossing on Japan / China talks

  China and Japan are holding their first high-level economic talks in 8 years in Tokyo today Some comments crossing: Japan Foreign Minister Kono: - need[...]
  2018-04-16 07:25:09

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  Heads up for the Comey interview on US TV, 10 pm ET (0200 GMT)

  Adam had thoughts on what to watch for here: Heads up: Comey interview on ABC is at 10 pm ET (0200 GMT) Taylor Swift had[...]
  2018-04-16 07:25:09

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  China State assets regulator says will complete excess coal capacity cut

  Reuters with headlines from China's state assets regulator Says centrally-owned SOEs' Q1 profits up 20.9 pct at 377.06 bln yuan Says will complete excess coal[...]
  2018-04-16 07:25:09

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  Comey interview on you-know-who: a serial liar who treated women like “meat”

  The New York Times says this from a transcript of the interview: Link to the NYT piece More: OK, so nothing new then? :-D  Earlier[...]
  2018-04-16 07:25:09

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  Former Japanese PM Koizumi says current PM Abe may quit in June

  on a piece on Japanese weekly magazine Aera's online site Reuters report Quote from former Japan PM Koizumi More: - Abe is being dogged by[...]
  2018-04-16 07:25:09

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  Japan politics - Abe Cabinet support rate drops to 37%

  A poll conducted by a Japanese media group, Kyodo News poll shows: - Public support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet has dropped 5.4 points to[...]
  2018-04-16 07:25:09

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  Trump wants back in on the TPP - WSJ says come back next year (at the earliest)

  The Wall Street Journal with a piece on what seems to be a push from the White House to re-join negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership When[...]
  2018-04-16 07:25:09

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  Trade recommendation (Barclays): Long GBP/NZD (entry, target and stop-loss levels)

  This comes via Barclays, off to an early start to the week We recommend going long GBPNZD Barclays citing reasoning: --- What does ForexLive think?[...]
  2018-04-16 07:25:09

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  US markets - early-week opening indications (equities, oil both higher)

  I posted early forex rates here a good few hours ago: and then an update: Other markets finally getting their *** into gear and opening[...]
  2018-04-16 07:25:09

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  NZ data - March Services PMI expands at its quickest in more than year

  New Zealand Performance of Services index for March, comes in at 58.8 - prior was 55.3 (revised from 55.0)   At 58.8 its at its[...]
  2018-04-16 07:25:09

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