G10 currency pairs have operated in narrow....>

FOREX: G10 currency pairs have operated in narrow ranges in early Asia-Pac

dealing, as dust settled after an impulse provided in late NY hours by the WSJ

story re: touted U.S. plans to roll back tariffs on China, which was

subsequently denied by the U.S. Tsy. 

- China's 2017 GDP growth with revised down to 6.8% from 6.9%. China's 2018 GDP

release is due Monday, with talk of China implementing a target range of

6.0-6.5%, target currently stands at around 6.5% 

- JPY initially climbed to the top of the G10 pile, but its strength faded away,

as both headine & core Japanese CPI slowed in Dec, moving further from the BoJ's

2% target, while Japanese stocks posted gains (the Nikkei 225 is ~0.9% higher). 

- GBP has underperformed in the aftermath of yesterday's rally on the back of

revived hopes that a hard/no-deal Brexit is an increasingly distant perspective.

In early Asia-Pac hours, the Times reported that the DUP party is open to

keeping the UK in a customs union with the EU. 

- Focus today falls on Japanese & U.S. industrial outputs, Canadian CPI & UK

retail sales. Elsewhere, ECB's Visco, Fed's Williams & Fed's Harker will speak.