France 3Q Gross Domestic Product (QoQ) decreases to -0.1% vs 0.5%

The global attitude toward risk caught a big boost Wednesday by the super-dovish musings of Fed Chair-to-be, Janet Yellen. That bullish attitude toward risk carried over into Asia and got an additional boost by the current Fed Chair, Ben Bernanke, basically echoing Yellen’s dovishness with easy money talk of his own.