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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.

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