Forex Trade Talk 11:00 GMT 15 February 2012

 Trade Talk: What's Moving Markets continuous on Forex Forum Key Items  GB- Jobs, EZ- GDP, US- Empire PMI, Industrial Production/Capacity Utilization, NAHB, Weekly Crude.  The German ZEW Survey of investment managers was much stronger than forecast. Word was the strength came from optimism based on the current expansive ECB policies.  Markets are still digesting the surprise Moodys downgrades of Spain, Portugal and Italy with a negative outlook.  It also placed AAA-rated France, U.K. and  Austria on a negative outlook. The Bank of Japan also surprised the markets by increasing its monetary ease *additional liquidity) and setting a target for Japanese CPI of 1.0%.It appears that global monetary ease is being coordinated between the major central banks. It appeared Tuesday that another Greek deadline was not going to be met as EU Finance Ministers were sending signals that they would not vote on approving an aid package for Greece. It may be that the package will not be addressed until the March 1 EU Leaders Summit. EU leaders want to hold Greece accountable after aid has been approved.  End of fiscal year Japanese life insurance investment adjustment activity coming into focus? Covert intervention by the BOJ has been confirmed, and more was threatened on Friday. Check the Forex Forum over the day for an updated and ongoing discussion of current trading themes in the MARKET CHATTER continuous discussion thread.Forex pairs vs 2-yr note spreads Some traders focus intently on the Japan vs. U.S. 2-yr note spread (only the U.S. 2-yr moves much).  COMMODITIES and Commodity Currencies

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