A wrap-ette of the late Europe/US holiday session
Here's the headlines since Mike's wrap, and what's been happening in markets (give you a clue, not a lot)
God damnit France & Italy, you let the team down
There is no political agreement on signing off Greek reform review yet says EU's Dijsselbloem
Here's what passes as a Greek deal result these days
UK's Clark says Britain wants mutually beneficial access to EU markets
February 2017 Eurozone consumer confidence flash -6.2 vs -4.90 exp
ECB QE count: Bought €17.185bn vs €16.907bn prior
France's Sapin says we may get a Greek deal today
Brexit's Davis believes UK can maintain same relationship with EU on justice and home affairs after Brexit
If you could ask us two trading questions, what would they be?
Having trouble sleeping ? Well here's the perfect remedy, the House of Lords debating Brexit
ESM receives €2bn repayment from Greece
The euro exchange rate is too weak for Germany says Schaeuble
UK could be a business safe haven next to a floundering EU
Boy, am I glad I did the Q&A post! And, thank you all for your questions, please feel free to keep them coming, and to fire any off to Eamonn when he gets in. Mike also said he'd be happy to take questions from 5.01am in the cold and dark UK morning tomorrow ;-)
So anyway, the Q&A post saved me from having to write 20 posts on Greece and another 20 from the 187 peers who will be waffling about Brexit for the next two days. Silver linings and all that ;-)
FX has been dull as dishwater today. It may just be the yanks off today but I've had a heavy weekend too, and if I'm a yard stick for most in the UK, we'll chalk today up as an extension of the weekend courtesy of our cousins across the pond ;-)
Here's what happened in FX since Mike's wrap;
EURUSD 1.0605-1.0633
USDJPY 113.05-113.16
GBPUSD 1.2450-1.2479
AUDUSD 0.7665-0.7688
USDCAD 1.3120-1.3087
EURJPY 120.00-120.20
GBPJPY 140.85-141.13
USDCHF 1.0044-1.0014
EURGBP 0.8510-0.8524
Of course, tomorrow starts when Eamonn gets in, which will still be yesterday for us as far as he's concerned. He'll have the ANZ Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence, followed by the minutes from the last RBA meeting, and the Japanese manufacturing PMI.
