Italy 3-y Bond Auction increase to 2.3% from 1.85%

Feb 13, 2013

Forex Flash: Fed backs off allegations of currency war – Deutsche Bank

Following the G7's well-publicized statement yesterday calling for "fiscal and monetary policies that…will not target exchange rates", there were a number of subsequent conflicting statements. An unnamed official was quoted as saying that the G7's statement "signaled concern about excess moves in the yen. The G7 is concerned about unilateral guidance on the yen".

Forex Flash: Obama highlights US focus for year ahead– BTMU

Derek Halpenny, European Head of Global Market Research at the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ notes that President Obama´s State of the Union speech last night set out the US´s focus for the year ahead.