World stocks hit a 12-day low on Monday, depressed by recent weak U.S. economic data and failing to find support from the G20 summit, while the yen attracted fresh flows to hit an eight-month high against the dollar.

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Like Cherry Blossoms in Spring… Believe it or not, we aren’t all philistines here at Taipan. Some of us are culture-loving poets with sensitive souls… like our very own options guru Adam Lass, for example. After a new round of falsehoods from Washington, Adam felt the need to express himself with a haiku.

‘The U.S had 0.6% growth in the last quarter and 1% population growth. In my book, that’s a recession. Now Japan is running at about three-and-a-half percent at the moment and they’ve got no population growth so that is a real three-and-a-half percent. So overall, the Japanese are really pretty solid.’— Martin Hutchinson, editor of The Money Map Report