Here's my summary of the key news overnight in 90 seconds at 9 am, including news there was plenty of policymaker talking over the weekend.
At the G20 Summit is Sydney, they agreed monetary policy should remain accommodative for now in most advanced economies and pledged a coordinated push to boost growth by more than US$2 trillion over the next five years. That's an additional 2% growth.
It has been a key event for finance ministers and central bankers to push their agendas. The governor of the Bank of England has told the world's biggest banks to stop whinging about proposed new capital requirements, saying they've had it too easy for too long. He was taking aim at Goldman Sachs who warned the tougher standards might back fire - which has its own irony because Carney himself is a former Goldman Sachs banker.
The Aussies committed themselves to workplace and productivity reforms, raising flash point policy changes again.
And Bill English has said in Sydney that a potential official interest rate rise in New Zealand carries with it a currency risk and the Kiwi dollar is already over-valued.
Separately, Moody's has raised Spain's sovereign credit rating by one notch, citing progress in reforms to put the economy on a more sustainable track. Spain has made faster-than-expected progress in rebalancing the economy away from real-estate 'investment' and towards exports, they said.
Equity markets ended a strong but unspectacular week on Friday; ditto oil and gold, although the price of gold in NZ dollars is now touching NZ$1,600/oz for the first time since October last year.
The NZ dollar ended the week pretty much where it started and starts today at 82.7 USc, 92.1 AUc and the TWI is at 77.7.
If you want to catch up with all the changes on Friday, we have an update here.
The easiest place to stay up with today's event risk is by following our Economic Calendar here »
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