The Traderszone Network

Following China’s Central Economic Work Conference which concluded on Monday, and which mapped out China’s economic priorities for next year, global markets soared on speculation that China will, once again, unleash some form of stimulus, which in turn sent commodities surging over the past three days even though ironically any incremental injections, monetary or fiscal, will simply force domestic producers – already on the brink of bankruptcy – to produce more, export even more, and accelerate the global deflationary tide which earlier today forced the read more

Doing so should help boost average selling prices for the iPhone.

Hyatt Hotels Inc.said it was investigating a breach of its payment-processing systems, becoming the latest hotel operator to report a hit to its credit and debit-card processing systems.
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Bloomberg report on the views of JPMorgan’s Tohru Sasaki, Tokyo-based head of Japan markets research
– Sees USD/JPY to 110 in 2016
– Sees the equilibrium at “below 100” but says this doesn’t see that as meaning it’s the end of the recovery in corporate profits

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People’s Bank of China injects 40 bn yuan through 7-day reverse repos
Re USD/CNY:

For now, Twitter is crushing it when it comes to this metric. But if management can’t reinvigorate user growth, this lead over Facebook may not be sustainable.

Japanese official CPI data is due on Friday 25 December 2015 in Tokyo. Bank of Japan inflation data due also.
(thats time Friday, )
Note: The Bank of Japan inflation measure is also due, a few hours later than this official data (see below)