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Wednesday, April 16

16th Apr - Weak China, Yellen's dovish speech





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EUROPE
U.K. Rate Guidance. RIPWSJ
U.K. forward guidance has effectively died. Another sharp drop in U.K. unemployment looks like the final nail in the coffin for the Bank of England’s plan to explicitly link the jobless rate to its interest-rate plans.

Europe is still nurturing deflation and dysfunctionGeorge Magnus

Talking Down the Euro Gets a Little HarderWSJ

EU28 current account surplus 39.4 bn euro – Eurostat
Euro area annual inflation down to 0.5% - Eurostat

UNITED STATES
Yellen Suggests That Fed Will Push to Shore Up Market for Short-Term Debt – WSJ
Yellen: The recovery could be nearly complete within two years – WaPo
Yellen Pegs Europe’s Economic Struggles to Weak Banks – WSJ
Yellen’s speech – FT
Yellen: Three Big Questions for the FOMC – Calculated Risk

Fed’s Lockhart Sees First Rate Hike in Second Half of 2015 – WSJ
Fed’s Fisher Reiterates Support for Winding Down of Bond-Buying Stimulus – WSJ

Industrial Production increased 0.7% in March – Calculated Risk

ASIA
China GDP: A Massaging of the Figures? – WSJ
Growth slowed further but industrial production suggests stabilization – Danske Bank
Do China’s Q1 GDP numbers gloss reality? – FT

More Rounds of BOJ Easing May Be Needed WSJ
Nakahara, a former BoJ policy board member and an adviser to Prime Minister, says the bank may need to consider successive rounds of quantitative easing.

OTHER
EM Bond Snapshot: April 2014Danske Bank

Commodities Update - Nickel rally not over yetDanske Bank

FINNISH
Alhaiset korot ja virheinvestoinnitRoger Wessman
Ei alhaisia korkoja voi syyttää siitä, jos korkeamman tuoton toivossa lainataan rahaa maksukyvyttömälle asunnonostajalle. Se on nollakorkojen aikanakin vain tyhmää.

Tätähän haluttiin?Henri Myllyniemi / US
Kaupan ala, kuten sisämarkkinat kokonaisuudessaan, on tarkoitus vetää vessasta alas sisäisen devalvaation myötä.