Japan Eco Watchers Survey: Current increase to 53.2 in Feb from 49.5

China trade balance has been most important risk event during current Asia-Pacific session, showing a $15.3B increase, when market consensus was expecting actually a deficit of $-7.75B according to Reuters. This surplus came on the back of doubled than expected exports, and shrinking imports at lowest levels since early 2012, falling -15.2% year on year, which hurts Australian and Japanese exports.