Asian currencies have born the brunt of rising concerns over the spread of COVID-19 beyond the Chinese mainland.

The markets have spun around again,with renewed optimism and not much lingering concern from Apple’s revenue warning yesterday.

Markets have returned to adopting a more cautious approach to the impact of COVID-19, after Apple said it didn’t expect to meet its forward guidance.

Nobody was expecting anything other than a bad GDP read from Japan but it was worse than bad.

Markets are cautiously hoping the worst of the coronavirus is over.

The markets slipped momentarily into risk-off as the number of COVID-19 infections jumped in volume, but concern slipped back a little as it became clear that the way cases were being measured had changed.

The NAB Commercial Property Index increased 5 points to an above average +8 in Q4.

The markets are continuing to discount the impact of the coronavirus.

Commodity prices have generally retreated in early February in response to the Coronavirus outbreak in China.