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You are right it is not a shocker and obviously was priced in the markets. Also the Yen was unchanged on the news. Even if we have to wait europe and US market opening (and that is tomorrow as today it is holiday in US) to see any real impact on markets.

Japn 4th quarter data came out at -3.3% (slightly worse then market expected of 3.1%). link:

you should tell the Japanese as well to be saver in deflation as seems they start spending more when their deflation started 20 years ago and they are not much of a saving country anymore (considering also the public debt). Here is a chart of Korea saving rate in red and Japan saving rate in blue.

Sorry Shadow, you are right, I am a bit rough and grumpy, I've been doing very well with my investment, It's probably got to do a bit with family problems... Anyway, I spend a lot of time studying the markets and economys and thinking about possible scenarios and I get a bit emotional when I...

Last week GDP growth of germany was -2.1% in the 4th quarter alone link GDP growth for Europe -1.5% 4th quarter alone link then you had US that in the advance GDP growth was at -3.8% at the end of the year (annualised), the gdp annualised at end of 3rd quarter was -0.5% On monday the Japan 4th...