Little to write home as news wires remained...>

FOREX: Little to write home as news wires remained fairly quiet, allowed the FX

space to consolidate ahead of a week-long holiday which gets underway in China

on October 1. JPY outperformed its G10 peers at the margin, as local equity

benchmarks sank because of a large number of the country's firms going

ex-dividend today. A slight miss in Tokyo core CPI was virtually ignored.

- NZD was the worst G10 performer, unwinding some of its yesterday's rally. A

deterioration in local consumer confidence to a four-year low, indicated by the

most recent ANZ survey, initiated the heavy tone as it defied yesterday's upbeat

comments from RBNZ Governor Orr. A trader source told BBG that option-related

selling pressure limited NZD/USD's recovery.

- A complex of familiar uncertainties allowed USD/KRW to push above its 50-DMA.

- Chinese BoP (f), U.S. U. of Mich. survey, personal income/spending and durable

goods orders, French CPI (p), Swedish retail sales and Norwegian unemployment

take focus today. Comments are awaited from BoE's Saunders, Riksbank's Floden,

ECB's de Guindos, Knot, Lane and de Cos, as well as Fed's Quarles and Harker.