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With the government losing faith in the central bank’s capabilities, it seems perhaps they should not be throwing stones from their glass house. In a shockingly unsurprising snafu on Monday, trains ground to a halt, a mobile network became jammed, and thousands of citizens began to panic as Japan’s meteorological agency sent an alarm that a massive earthquake was about to strike the capital Kanto Region, home to more than 40 million people… before admitting the false alarm: “it’s an error on our part, we sincerely apologize.”

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Your daily thread to exchange trading ideas and discussion 2 August 2016
The markets are waiting on news from Japan so what are you looking for ? ( apart from ways of trying to stay awake!)

The global communications, PR and marketing head role at the social trading network will be taken over by Joe Hall

Japanese fin min will speak to reporters  2 Aug 2016
Further to my earlier post. Aso is meeting with BOJ gov Kuroda.
Meanwhile
USDJPY back to 102.20 after holding 102.00 again.

Softer tones for equities as we wait on the official openings 2 Aug
– DAX futures -0.3%
– CAC40 -0.3%
– FTSE -0.3%
Bund futures down 10 at 167.35