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One week ago, yields on the Japanese 10Y JGB tumbled when the BOJ relented, and succumbed to market demands to expand its debt monetization, when it increased the size of its daily bond purchase operation, or POMO in NY Fed parlance, in the 5-10 year zone from JPY410BN to JPY450BN, which sent yields tumbling as market participants assumed the BOJ would chase every uptick in yields with progressively greater bond purchases. The day before, on January 25, the BOJ upset market expectations as it held off on the purchase of JGBs with maturities of more 1-3 three years and 3-5 years.

After staging a remarkable recovery in its stock price since last summer's record lows, nearly doubling from its September price, Deutsche Bank shares tumbled this morning after the bank reported a net loss of €1.89 billion for the fourth quarter, which while better than the €2.12 billion loss one year ago, was a big miss to the consensus expected shortfall of €1.32 billion.

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“The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust ...”

Satoshi Nakamoto (Unknown person or persons who designed bitcoin and created its original reference implementation, Bitcoin Core)

With Wall Street consensus expecting the Turkish central bank to hike its benchmark repo rate by 50bps (in two cases by as much as 75 bps and five analysts were expecting as much as a 100 bps increase) in hopes of arresting the recent record collapse in the Turkish Lira, this morning the central bank again proved it has become a political appendage of Erdogan, who has repeatedly stated he is against any rate hikes, when the central bank kept its overnight benchmark repo rate unchanged at 8%, even as it raised its less relevant overnight lending rate by the expected 75 basis points.

Overnight the PBOC injected another CNY95 billion into its banking system bringing the total weekly injection to a record CNY1.13 trillion.