There are some hopes that a series of Chinese economic data due early next week will give investors relief, traditionally Chinese shares perform relatively well around the time of lunar new year and Shanghai shares also appear to be supported around the 3,000 mark even as they briefly fell below that level yesterday.

Hirokazu Kabeya

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Following strong U.S. payrolls data last week, we are in a sweet spot where the U.S. economy seems to be doing okay while the chances of a near-term Fed rate hikes are still relatively small, earnings in the U.S., Europe and Japan are not bad. So we may be seeing something of a 'Goldilocks' market globally.

Hirokazu Kabeya

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Coming less than a week after the incident in Paris, it would be a natural reaction, even though consensus seems to be growing earlier that the impact of the terror attack would be limited, markets are likely to be going back and forth for now.

Hirokazu Kabeya

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