There won’t be an update until Friday, 15 February 2013.
Today, there is a lot of opinion and analysis on North Korea’s third nuclear test; even China has joined in with the rest of the world in condemning the tests.
The G7 have issued a statement telling the world they have not and will not target exchange rates as instruments to meet national fiscal targets, because they realize the negative impact it could have on economic stability. Assorted comments from across the globe loosely translated to a “well done on monetary policy, Japan,” sending the yen even lower, as Japanese official Haruhiko Kuroda, who could be in the running for the governor post at the Bank of Japan, said there could be more easing in 2013.
From a rather upset ZeroHedge:
In other words, let the FX wars continue and may the biggest balance sheet win, all the while everyone pretends nothing is happening.
Barclays has presented its restructuring plan “Project Transform” (seriously) this morning, cutting 3,700 jobs and £1.7bn in annual costs in a final effort to lift the bank out of crisis. read article
In the US, Twitter and American Express have launched a new service allowing Amex holders to buy products by sending a tweet. TechCrunch explains:
Payments are made by tweeting a purchase hashtag, and retweeting the confirmation tweet from Amex within 15 minutes of receiving it. The product will be shipped to the account billing address synced with Twitter, and payment taken from your synced Amex account.
Hello 21st century.
Elsewhere, Colgate-Palmolive will lose $120m (post-tax) as a direct result of Venezuela’s currency devaluation and the French company EDF Energy has knocked on the UK Treasury‘s door to guarantee [part of] the payment of three planned nuclear power stations across Britain, reviving a debate about the country’s future energy supply.
So long.
