Renminbi moves up the league table ...

Reuters reports that, according to figures from SWIFT (the global transaction services organization), China's yuan overtook the Swiss franc to become the seventh most-used world payments currency in January.
With a market share of 1.39 percent, the yuan remained one of the top 10 most-used currencies for payments worldwide for the third consecutive month, after ranking eighth in December.
The yuan is now only ranked behind the U.S. dollar, euro, sterling, yen, Canadian dollar and Australian dollar, according to SWIFT.

London FTSE market ...

Big disturbances to 'normal' supply/demand factors at present, as the cash and shares resulting from Vodafone's stake of its Verizon Wireless stake are assimilated. Also, there's a FTSE and MSCI rebalance on Monday ...

NY Coffee - COT figures at Feb 4th

Note that Commercials have moved to a 12-month high on their nett shorts ...