Asian stock markets closed sluggishly.
Many markets are closed for holidays, including Shanghai and Shenzhen where the Chinese New Year is celebrated.
Investors' attention is focused on the next moves of the central banks, in particular the Bank of Japan with the expectations of maintaining monetary policy unchanged, as the deputy governor Shinichi Uchida has hinted.
Tokyo moved little (+0.09%).
On the currency market, the yen is losing ground against the dollar, at 149.30 and against the euro at 160.90. Negotiations are still ongoing in Hong Kong (-0.8%) while Mumbai rises (+0.1%).
Poor day of macroeconomic indicators.
Coming from Germany is the second reading of January inflation and industrial production from Italy.
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