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Your economic data/event calendar for today 9 Sept
G’day one and all.
Draghi has spoken and the euro has maintained its bid tones that we saw leading into the ECB meeting. Now we wait to see whether that sentiment continues or anything now comes along before the week-end to knock it off its perch.

Statement just out via KCNA following further missile testing 9 Sept
– nuclear test was in response to threats and sanctions by hostile elements inc the US
US assistant sec of state Russel says:

Japan  July tertiary industry index 9 Sept 2016

        
–     +0.7% prev from +0.8%
The Tertiary Industry Index measures the change in the total value of services purchased by businesses. It is a leading indicator of economic health.

Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda had lunch with Japanese PM Abe today
Deep fried pensioner was apparently on the menu, but I digress.
Kuroda now speaking with the press:

Yonhap (via Reuters)
– South Korea and Japan to seek UN Security Council meeting on the North Korean nuclear test
Any bets it’ll be to consider further sanctions?

Forex news for Asia trading Friday 9 September 2016
North Korea has apparently conducted another nuclear test (it seems beyond doubt, but maybe it was only fat boy Kim Jong Un falling out of bed), with reports that a M5+ ‘seismic activity’ in the country was a test. South Korean authorities say that the emitted energy was double that of the North’s nuclear test back in January. South Korea’s President Park said North Korea’s leader showed “maniacal recklessness”. Nothing like trying to calm the situation, eh?

Kuroda and PM Abe have lunch together every 6 months
Kuroda to speak with the press after today’s lunch
Did he Instagram what he ate? Anyone?