I'll be doing a Wrap later, but right now that seems a long way in the distance

So if you are just waking up, here's a bit of a 'whats been going on up 'til now' Wrap

Monday (so far):

  • GBP/USD lower - toward 1.3400
  • More comments from Japan - Aso, Nakaso
  • China Securities Journal: 2016 real GDP may slow to 6.6%
  • Japan PM Abe: Some uncertainty remains in markets
  • BOJ Governor Kuroda and Deputy Nakaso power walking to Diet
  • NZ May Trade Balance: 358m (+182m expected)
  • NZ trade balance for May due at 2245GMT
  • BOJ's Kuroda, Japan PM Abe to meet at 2300GMT
  • IMF head Lagarde - Markets had vastly underestimated Brexit
  • New Zealand Q2 Employment Confidence index 101.5 (Q1 was 104.8)
  • More detail on UK's Osborne scheduled announcement
  • UK Financial Times front page: Political turmoil and isolation
  • Trade ideas thread to open the new FX week, Monday 27 June 2016
  • Boris Johnson says changes to relationship with EU will not come in any rush
  • UK Chancellor Osborne scheduled to make announcement prior to mkt open
  • UK opposition leader reiterates he will not resign
  • GBP lower again
  • Spain election results - Conservatives win 136 seats, but short of majority
  • Monday morning FX - 27 June 2016 - foreign exchange prices, early indications

Weekend:

  • Fluctuations in economic activity: There is only one cause says John Hearn
  • It's not just the UK government in turmoil after Brexit
  • Scotland's Sturgeon fires up the heat by threatening to veto Brexit
  • After the UK Brexit it's now time for Spain to vote, again
  • China: Shadow banking probe, and cuts to Taiwan communication
  • EU ministers urge the UK to Brexit at full speed
  • UK's European Commissioner Hill to resign
  • There's life in the UK after Brexit Jim, but not as we knew it

Price updates as of now:

too slow .... Cable under 1.34 now ...