The Traderszone Network

An Islamic State commander described as the group’s de facto minister of war may have been killed in Syria, several U.S. officials said.

Investors largely remained on the sidelines given a lack of fresh trading cues before hearing from the ECB’s policy meeting scheduled for Thursday
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Squawk Box Live in Europe is tracking market moves as Asia stocks fall from 2-month highs and crude oil prices retreat.

Here’s your data calendar for today 9 March
Greetings from a dark and stormy South of England.
A quiet day data wise but we do have UK ind and mftg production this morning then the BOC rate decision later to keep in focus.

Sill in negative territory but clawing back some earlier losses
– currently a tad lower again at 16693.44
– -90.01
– -0.53%
– USDJPY 112.65 tightly bound still

Bloomberg carry a report saying its likely the PBOC is “using stealth measures to intervene in the foreign-exchange market and shore up its currency reserves”

QDII is ‘qualified domestic institutional investor’. These have approval to raise funds in China & to use them to invest offshore
–  Quotas are administered by the PBOC’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE)
No further details on what the revisions may be.