* After their surprise easing in January, the MAS does nothing in their scheduled semi-annual meeting
* Abe adviser Hamada: “I don’t think it’s a bad thing to send a signal that selling of the yen is coming closer to its limit bit by bit”
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Read more* Fed Lacker: “the case for raising rates will remain strong at the June meeting”; regarding weak data: “temporary factors like unseasonable weather”
* Fed Kocherlakota: “raising interest rates is going to…drive [the economy] the wrong way”
* BOJ Kuroda: “Japan’s economy is expected to continue recovering moderately as a trend”
* Bundesbank Tells German .
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Read more* The US Treasury semi-annual report urged euro area governments and Tokyo not to rely solely on monetary policy to lift growth
* China’s repo rate drops for a 6th week,
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Read more* FOMC Minutes: “several” thought June the right time for lift-off, “others” better to wait longer, “some” want to wait until 2016
* Fedmulls selling short term bonds to trim repo use after any rate
* Moody’s warns Brexit is a bigger threat to UK rating
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Read more* Shell to buy BG group for £46bn, one of the biggest oil and gas deals in the last 20 years
* UK BRC Shop Price Index -2.1% (largest decline since inception on Dec 2006) vs previous -1.7%
* Japanese outflows: buy the most Italian securities ever;
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