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FOREX: It has been a slow start to the session, with liquidity thinned by market

holidays across the region and many participants in Japan taking a couple of

days off, for the previously flagged calendar-related reasons. The FX space

continues to trade in a risk-off mode as U.S. equity index futs operate in the

red, with wider attention drawn to the latest earnings reports from Apple and

Amazon, as well as another round of U.S. Pres Trump's sabre-rattling vs. China.

- The Antipodeans have landed at the bottom of the G10 pile, pressured by softer

risk sentiment and weak domestic data. Australia's AiG M'fing PMI plunged to a

record low, with final CBA counterpart revised a touch lower. New Zealand's ANZ

Consumer Confidence also reached worst levels on record. Safe haven FX are bid,

with USD sitting atop the G10 scoreboard. 

- Australia reports Q1 PPI data at the top of the hour. Manufacturing PMI

tallies are due out of the U.S., Canada and the UK later in the day. Many

markets across the globe will be shuttered for May Day.