The People’s Bank of China announced today that it is to set up a Securities, Funds and Insurance companies Swap Facility (SFISF), initially of 500 billion yuan. Its purpose is to build "healthy and stable development of the capital market." Those security, funds and insurance companies eligible can pledge assets such as bonds, stock ETFs, and CSI300 stocks. They'll receive liquidity from the PBOC to boost their capacity to access funds, increase equity holdings. Yesterday afternoon we had the announcement of China's Ministry of Finance briefing, scheduled for 10 am Beijing time (0200 GMT, 2200 US Eastern time) on Saturday, October 12, which is to provide insights into fiscal policy and economic development ... or " intensifying countercyclical adjustments to its fiscal policy" according to documents.The combination of two helped stocks in China and Hong Kong stabilize today.

From Japan were data for ‘wholesale’ inflation, the PPI (also referred to as the Corporate Goods Price Index) for September. This rose from August, and came in better than expected. USD/JPY has not had a large range today, and is little changed on the session.

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly spoke, projecting one or two further FOMC rate cuts this year. There are more of her remarks in the bullet point above.

Major FX rates traded in a subdued fashion ahead of the US CPI data due Thursday morning (8.30 am) US time.

As a heads up, at 0735 GMT (0335 US Eastern time … i.e. soon) Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Ryozo Himino will be speaking.

Reserve Bank of Australia's Assistant Governor Economic Hunter will speak at 0745 GMT, 0345 US Eastern time.

I don’t have topics for these speeches.

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