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3 Numbers to Watch: BoJ governor, EZ current account, ECOFIN
Friday’s calendar has little to offer in terms of macro numbers and after the Federal Reserve’s ‘taper-bomb’ and China’s version of the Lehman-moment, it makes sense to look at more pressing issues: namely, what are the Europeans up to, and will the Japan's ‘Abenomics’ really work. Japan BoJ Governor Kuroda (06:35 GMT): The central bank governor will be speaking at the annual meeting of the National Association of Shinkin Banks held in Tokyo. The Bank of Japan’s aggressive quantitative easing programme and inflation targeting have been questioned lately — it seems that markets would have ... (full story)