Good morning. Why Japan is nothing like Greece (yet). More cool charts to be found at the link below

?????????????????? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/weekly-chartopia

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News from this morning: a strong downward revision of Japanese GDP growth???

http://www.forexlive.com/blog/2012/09/10/update-japan-q2-gdp-revised-down-to-0-7-from-1-4/

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???and earlier this weekend the news that Chinese inflation has rebounded somewhat, although in line with expectations

?????????????????? http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/09/us-china-economy-inflation-idUSBRE88800G20120909

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Now on to this week; another important one??? Elections, German judges and more???

?????????????????? http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/09/us-eurozone-idUSBRE88805520120909

?????????????????? http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/09/schedule-for-week-of-sept-9th.html

?????????????????? http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/09/09/week-ahead-september-10-14/

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Last week???s big rally in the European bond markets (except for Germany)

?????????????????? http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/09/weekly-eurozone-watch-comfortably-numb/

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Intriguing split picture. I wonder if they did a lot of photoshopping on this, though???

?????????????????? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/caption-contest-drakel

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US surprise index (outcome compared to consensus forecast) has turned positive again, despite the disappointing jobs data

?????????????????? http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/09/economic-surprise-index-has-turned-positive.html ??????????????????????

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Soros speaks about the euro in the FT. ??????Lead or leave euro???, Soros tells Germany???

?????????????????? http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7d4a9490-fa71-11e1-93da-00144feabdc0.html

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Interesting: what various assets have done since the first Draghi speech on July the 25^th

?????????????????? http://www.businessinsider.com/markets-performance-post-july-26-draghi-speech-2012-9

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And finally an interesting read on hindsight bias.

?????????????????? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120906123324.htm

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