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MARKET TALK: The major G10 FX pairs, T-Notes and e-minis all hold narrow ranges

in early Asia-Pac trade, with Asia's focus on the continued Sino-U.S. sabre

rattling.

- Flash PMI data from Australia & Japan headline the Asia-Pac economic docket.

It will probably be worth focusing on the new orders and labour market

components of the surveys, given the global fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.

- Elsewhere, a reminder that yesterday saw Xinhua note that China's "National

People's Congress (NPC), China's national legislature, will hold a press

conference on Thursday, one day ahead of the opening of its annual session. A

spokesperson of the third session of the 13th NPC will take questions from

Chinese and foreign reporters on the agenda of the session and work of the NPC,

according to the press center of the session. The press conference, scheduled

for 21:40 Beijing time (14:40 London) at the Great Hall of the People,