More comments now out on Bloomberg 17 May

  • still far from price target
  • no particular requests from Abe on mon pol

So much for the "no talk on mon pol" that Reuters reported and Eamonn posted here a short while ago.

Either way it's the usual hot air/jawboning we come to expect from Kuroda/Abe/et al and all this their regular meeting in any case .

USDJPY suitably unfazed but finding support into 112.40

" Keep smiling. It might convince them we know what we're talking about"