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Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc (CMG.N), known for its indulgent burritos, is battling a “Chubby Chipotle” ad campaign from the food industry group whose “Nanny” ads helped sink New York City’s ban on super-sized sugary drinks. The Center for Consumer Freedom’s full-page advertisement in Thursday’s New York Post depicts a smiling, shirtless, overweight young man flexing one arm and resting the other on his ample tummy.

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Super hawk Jeffrey Lacker of the Richmond Fed speaks at around 12.10 GMT
When you’re a central banker making a speech titled “The case against further delay”, it’s pretty obvious that you’ve nailed your colours to the mast

TVs are about to get brighter, have better colours and look more realistic, executives at Samsung and LG told CNBC.

Forex options due to expire later today
EURUSD
– 1.0900 (839m),1.0950, 1.0970, 1.0980
– 1.1000 (2.51bn), 1.1050, 1.1075
– 1.1100 (2.17bn), 1.1125, 1.1130 (522m), 1.1150 (886m), 1.1185/90/95
USDJPY

Squawk Box Live in Europe will have all the updates from the Ambrosetti Economic Forum in Italy and the G-20 summit in Ankara, Turkey.

Here were are at non-farm Friday and here’s the data due today
Very good morning to you all. I see that I sit down to a blow out in Japan and Asia in general
Perhaps not a good sign for the European open later

Forex news for Asia trading Friday 4 September 2015
China was closed for a holiday today, will reopen on Monday. But, whoever decides these things has a strange sense of humour, scheduling the Hong Kong PMI for today. It came in looking like death warmed up (not by much), at 44.4. Check with your Chinese friends about how auspicious that number is.