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PBOC injects 230bn yuan via 7-day reverse repos
OMO = open market operations
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Last week saw a net drain of 80bn yuan (455bn drain prior week)

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Retiring early usually means smaller checks from Social Security. But there are ways to boost those benefits — even if you retire early.

Submitted by JP Koning via Moneyness blog,

Negative interests rates are the shiny new thing that everyone wants to talk about. I hate to ruin a good plot line, but they’re actually kind of boring; just conventional monetary policy except in negative rate space. Same old tool, different sign.

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New Zealand  – Treasury Monthly Economic Indicators out now
In very brief:
– Economic growth picked up over the second half of 2015
– The unemployment rate fell to its lowest in six years, although is not expected to be sustained
The report does not usually have an immediate FX impact to much of an extent at all.

Japanese PM Abe:

Australia – Q4 Inventories  -0.4% q/q
– expected +0.1%, previous was 0.0%, revised from 0.1%
Company profits  -2.8% q/q (in case you need me to tell you … that is a sharp fall … profits in the mining sector were hit hard by falling commodity prices)

Asia markets opened higher Monday, with Japan extending gains. But analysts expect rocky trading this week amid a deluge of economic data.