FX: Option expiries for today's 1400GMT cut,
* Euro-dollar; $1.2500(large), $1.2550, $1.2625, $1.2630, $1.2650, $1.2700
* Dollar-yen; Y79.00, Y79.25, Y79.30, Y80.00
* Euro-sterling; stg0.8000
* Aussie; $0.9860, $0.9865, $0.9875, $0.9900, $0.9950
* Dollar-Canada; C$1.0230
EURIBOR FUTURES: Market opens steady to higher, curve steeper. Whites, Jun12 futures 0.5 higher at 99.36, Sep12 0.5bps higher at 99.45, Dec12 0.5bps higher at 99.45 and Mar13 0.5bps higher at 99.45. Reds (Jun13-Mar14) seen steady to 0.5bps higher, and Greens (Jun14-Mar15) seen steady to 0.5bps higher as well.
FRENCH PRESS: A few days after Christine Lagarde has urged Greeks to start paying taxes, it transpires that she herself enjoys tax benefits, Le Momde reports. A revelatory internet tax site shows that the director of the IMF benefits from a specific fiscal status which means all her revenues from the IMF are not subject to tax.
