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Squawk Box Live in Europe is tracking reaction after China’s exports fell 25.4 percent on-year in February, the fastest pace since May 2009.

The US$ is finding some early sellers as European trading gets underway.
Asian equity wobbles ( Nikkei and SCI both closed lower) have seen some yen demand return as traders look beyond Thursday’s ECB meeting and pre-empt the US Fed.

For International Women’s Day, CNBC looks at the female pioneers that the world should be paying attention to in 2016.

Kuwaiti oil min quoted on Reuters
– all major producers including Iran
No further detail but no great shocks here.
Brent currently $40.35 and WTI $37.49 holding recent gains but off session highs.

German industrial production report for Jan now out
– -0.3% prev revised up from -1.2%
– yy WDA +2.2% vs -1.6% exp vs -1.3% prev revised up from -2.2%
That’s a big improvement on expectations and previous which has seen the euro gain a few pips on EURUSD but not flying anywhere in a hurry.  Will be welcome news nonetheless.

The filing in a Brooklyn, N.Y., case was expected after Magistrate James Orenstein concluded that prosecutors lacked legal authority to compel Apple to help investigators bypass the passcode feature on a drug dealer’s iPhone.
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