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Biggest % gainers: AUD/JPY up 2.28%, NZD/JPY up 1.59%, AUD/USD, CAD/JPY, EUR/JPY, CHF/JPY, AUD/CAD on yen weakness & commodity dollar strength after that bullish AUD employment report.

Biggest % losers: GBP/AUD down 1.62%, EUR/AUD down 1% on AUD strength.

Gold $1,200
Oil $75.25

GBP BOE holds rates steady at 0.50%.
GBP Asset Purchase Facility kept at 200B as expected.

EUR ECB holds rates steady at 1.00%.
ECB Press Conference at 8:30am EST today. (Trichet comments attached).

USD Unemployment Claims better than expected at 454k vs. 461k expected and 475k last time.

GBP Halifax HPI m/m worse at -0.6% vs +0.6% expected. Last ...

Biggest % gainers: EUR/AUD up 1.33%, EUR/TRY, EUR/USD up 1.25%, EUR/NZD up 1.17% on EUR strength.

Biggest % losers: AUD/JPY down 0.93%, USD/CHF, USD/JPY, NZD/JPY, AUD/CAD, CAD/JPY on USD weakness & JPY strength.

USD/JPY hits fresh 2010 lows (not 52 week low). The pair is at 87.74 right now.

ADP was lower yesterday....Weekly Unemployment Claims were lower today...hmmmm, wonder what that says about NFP on Friday? Get ready for a bumpy economic road ahead!

The European Central Bank announced that it lent banks 111.2 billion euros for six days in order to help them cope with the expiry of its landmark 12-month loans today.

DailyFX - ECB Lends $136.5 Billion for Six ...

Biggest % gainers: AUD/JPY up 1%, NZD/JPY, AUD/CAD, AUD/USD, NZD/USD on AUD & NZD strength.

Biggest % losers: GBP/AUD down 0.60%, EUR/AUD, EUR/NZD on AUD and NZD strength.

The U.S.S. Washington is headed to South Korea to join the S. Korean forces in a show of strength against the North Koreans. Watch how this unfolds because China (formerly) has always pledged to protect North Korea and of course, Obama has already pledged support for South Korea. The U.S.S. Washington should be there as soon as next week and will be doing some military exercises with the South Koreans.

Gold $1,217
Oil $73.30 http://www.dailyfx.com/forex/fundame..._Ahead_of.html ...

Biggest % gainers: This is where the momentum is at this morning...AUD/JPY up 2.91%, NZD/JPY up 2.51%, AUD/USD up 2.25%, CAD/JPY up 2.09%, NZD/USD up 1.89% on huge USD & JPY weakness and commodity dollar strength.

Biggest % losers: EUR/AUD down 1.59%, GBP/AUD, USD/CAD on commodity dollar strength.

Gold $1,207
Oil $73.12

Google is operating a trading room in order to better manage their huge cash position and it looks like they could be trading fx too: http://preview.bloomberg.com/news/20...e-trading.html

GBP CBI Realized Sales worse at -18 vs. 13 expected and 13 last time.

USD Preliminary GDP q/q worse at 3.0% vs. ...