Italy's Service Sector Contracts for First Time in 16 Months Amid Rising Costs and Weakening Demand 
Foreign Investors Pour $18.65 Billion into Japanese Stocks Amid Market Stabilization 
Gold Prices Dip Amid Middle East Uncertainty and Inflation Fears 
U.S.-China Trade Talks: Trump and Xi Set for Summit Amid Rare Earths Focus 
Japan Consumer Confidence Drops Sharply Amid Rising Fuel Costs and Middle East Tensions 
Goldman Sachs, ANZ Cut Oil Forecasts Amid U.S.-Iran Ceasefire Hopes 
U.S. Stock Futures Surge as Trump Postpones Iran Strikes, Ceasefire Hopes Rise 
Gold Surges Near 3-Week High as Trump-Iran Ceasefire Eases Geopolitical Tensions 
Gold Prices Fall Amid Rate Jitters; Copper Steady as China Stimulus Eyed 
U.S.-Iran Ceasefire: Fragile Truce Raises Hopes for Strait of Hormuz Peace Deal 
Lots of economic data and events scheduled for today and some with high volatility risks associated.
Data released so far:
- Australia: Private sector credit grew 0.7 percent in December, up 5.6 percent from a year ago.
- Japan: BoJ kept monetary policy unchanged with interest rate at -0.1 percent. Vehicle production rose 4.2 percent y/y. Construction orders rose 7.1 percent y/y. Housing starts rose by 3.9 percent y/y.
Upcoming:
- Japan: Kuroda press conference will begin at 6:30 GMT.
- France: Fourth quarter flash GDP number will be released at 6:30 GMT. Flash consumer price inflation numbers for January and producer price inflation numbers for December will be published at 7:45 GMT.
- Germany: Retail sales numbers for December will be published at 7:00 GMT. Unemployment report for January will be published at 8:55 GMT.
- Spain: Flash HICP inflation numbers will be released at 8:00 GMT. Current account balance for November will be published at 9:00 GMT.
- Italy: Unemployment report for December will be published at 9:00 GMT. Producer price inflation number for December will be published at 10:00 GMT.
- United Kingdom: Consumer credit report, mortgage approvals report and money supply statistics, all will be published for the month of December at 9:30 GMT.
- Eurozone: Fourth quarter flash GDP number will be published at 10:00 GMT., along with unemployment rate for January and consumer price inflation for January.
- Germany: Flash CPI and HICP for January will be released at 13:00 GMT.
- United States: Employment cost index for fourth quarter will be published at 13:30 GMT, followed by S&P Case/Shiller home price report at 14:00 GMT, Chicago PMI at 14:45 GMT, and consumer confidence at 15:00 GMT.
- Canada: Raw material price, industrial product price, and December GDP, all will be published at 13:30 GMT.
- New Zealand: Fourth quarter unemployment report will be released at 21:45 GMT.
- Australia: AiG manufacturing index will be released at 22:30 GMT.
