The Traderszone Network

“Underwhelming” may have been the most appropriate word to sum up the commercials that ran during Super Bowl 50 on Sunday.
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Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kuroda and Deputy Governor Iwata were in the Japanese parliament 
Comments crossed earlier, so just noting them
– Kuroda said BOJ staff did not speak to the media before the alleged leak.
You may recall BOJ announcement day (January 29) when the first headline hit about the BOJ talking about negative rates at their meeting, That headline came well before the announcement, there was a leak somewhere.

Crude oil futures were mixed in early Asian trade on Monday after a meeting between OPEC producers Saudi Arabia and Venezuela to discuss coordination on prices ended with few signs there would be steps taken to boost prices. Brent crude futures, (LCOc1) the global benchmark was down 9 cents at $33.97 at 0039 GMT.

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A Barclays piece on USD/JPY (from Friday)
– Says the downside may be limited due to the potential for more Bank of Japan easing & jawboning
– Barclays note the jawboning when it dipped in the middle of January

Markets in Australia and Japan retraced some early losses Monday as most major Asian markets remain closed for the Lunar New Year holidays.

Authored by Steve Keen, originally posted at Forbes.com,

The great tragedy of the global economic malaise is that it is caused by a shortage of something that is essentially costless to produce: money.

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DTCC option info for today.
Mike will have the list of option expiries at the 10am NY cut a little later
But, just noting the AUD/USD:
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0.7000 A$701mn
– 0.7025 A$357m