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The World Health Organization said today that eating even unprocessed red meat “probably” causes cancer.

But as we reported in 2012, it may not be red meat – but FAKE meat – that’s killing us.

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A bit of a catch-up on this. From Reuters:
more PBOC easing on the way, anyone?
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Are you reddy?
No, not a typo.
A down day so far across the region. The PBOC eased in Friday … how long before we start hearing pleas for more?
– Shanghai down 1.82%
Across FX … (don’t worry about the colours in the boxes):

Oil prices fell on Tuesday, on course for a third week of losses as U.S. inventory data is expected to show another increase in crude stocks. The fall in U.S. crude pushed it below technical support levels, said Ric Spooner, chief market analyst at Sydney’s CMC Markets. U.S. commercial crude oil stockpiles likely rose for a fifth straight week, by an average of 3 million barrels to 479.6 million, in the week ended Oct. 23, a preliminary Reuters survey taken ahead of industry and official inventory data, showed on Monday.

The days of cheap and cheerful cars like the Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla may be numbered as technology firms Google (GOOGL.O) and Apple (AAPL.O) muscle into the auto industry, and change the way people own and drive cars. “If they don’t watch out, they risk becoming just suppliers to those (tech) companies,” Okuyama told Reuters in an interview at his industrial design studio in the Japanese capital ahead of this week’s Tokyo Motor Show.

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Traders were called on to exercise this agility and flexibility this week when the dollar index staged a strong rally to close the week at $0.973.

Here is a very handy little run-through of key comments from Federal Reserve speakers since the previous FOMC meeting
Its from
Bloomberg and ungated, the link is here
Whats of most interest to me is the Change in tone from a few officials … more are leaning dovish.