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Ukrainian security forces exchanged fire with pro-Russian armed forces, and market risk aversion warmed up.

Last Saturday, in Slavyansk, Ukraine, a group of pro-Russian militants rushed into the police station with guns, occupied the police headquarters and the security department building in the city, and raised the Russian flag at the police headquarters. This group of armed men did not make clear demands, but some armed men told the media that they tried to protect this place from ultra-nationalists in western Ukraine and the new regime in Kiev.

Ukrainian Interior Minister Avacov announced on Sunday (April 13) that Ukrainian security forces launched operations in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk that day and exchanged fire with pro-Russian militants. During the operation, an official of Ukrainian security forces was killed, five others were injured and pro-Russian armed forces also suffered casualties.

Avacov also warned local residents to stay away from the city center, stay at home and stay away from windows. However, Reuters reported that local residents apparently ignored this warning and street activities went on as usual. A local media reported that in addition to occupying the police headquarters and city hall in Kramators, armed men also set up roadblocks near a local military airport.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General of NATO, said on Sunday, "We have seen separatists who support Russia engage in violent activities aimed at destabilizing the sovereign state of Ukraine." Rasmussen expressed "extreme concern" about the further escalation of the situation in eastern Ukraine. He called on Russia to take measures to ease the crisis and withdraw its troops, including special forces, from areas bordering eastern Ukraine.

On Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov talked with US Secretary of State John Kerry about the situation in eastern Ukraine. Kerry expressed concern about Russia's "incitement" to the turbulent situation in eastern Ukraine, while Lavrov said that the situation in eastern Ukraine shows that the Ukrainian government has no ability to take responsibility for the country's destiny. If Ukraine uses force against the Russian people in the east, it will damage the prospects of cooperation, including the four-party meeting.

The United Nations [Weibo] Security Council will hold emergency closed-door consultations on the situation in Ukraine on Sunday night (April 13). On the afternoon of April 13, the Office of the United Nations Spokesman forwarded the urgent notice of the rotating presidency of the Security Council this month, saying that the President of the Security Council had called the members of the Council to hold informal consultations of the whole at 20: 00 EST to discuss the situation in Ukraine.

Drakis released the clearest easing signal: If the euro strengthens again, I will do so.

On Saturday (April 12), President Delacquis of the European Central Bank (ECB) said that if the exchange rate of the euro rises further, the ECB will be required to further loosen monetary policy in order to keep the overall policy as loose as possible.

During attending the meetings of the International Monetary Fund [Weibo ](IMF[ Weibo]) and the World Bank [Weibo], Della made the above statement based on a press conference, saying that the euro appreciated sharply in 20 13, which largely led to the weakening of the inflation rate in the euro zone.

According to the published data, the annualized initial value of the consumer price index (CPI) in the euro zone in March (that is, the inflation rate) has dropped to 0.5%, further deviating from the ECB's inflation target of slightly lower than 2%, which means that the deflation risk facing the euro zone is increasing, and the final annual value of CPI in March will be announced on Wednesday (April 16); Drakis believes that a strong euro will depress the inflation rate by 0.4-0.5 percentage points.

Delakis reiterated that the euro exchange rate is not the policy goal of the European Central Bank, but it is very important to maintain price stability and economic growth; The facts of the past few months show that the euro is playing an increasingly important role in the price stability of the euro zone.

Previously, the European Central Bank did not announce the further relaxation of monetary policy when it issued the interest rate resolution on April 3, but Drakis said at the press conference after the interest rate resolution that unconventional measures such as quantitative easing (QE) policy are in line with the scope of the ECB's duties.

Over the past year, the euro has greatly appreciated by 6%( 1.3850, -0.0009, -0.06%) against the US dollar, and closed at 1.3883 last Friday (April1). Drakis and other ECB officials have recently made the strongest comments on a strong euro.

Benoit Coeure, the Executive Committee of the European Central Bank, said last Friday that although the European Central Bank has not set an exchange rate target, the euro exchange rate has affected the inflation rate in the euro zone, and the European Central Bank has the responsibility to maintain price stability. The more the euro appreciates, the more it needs to loosen monetary policy.

The euro led the decline, focusing on US retail sales data during the day.

Due to the increasingly tense relationship between Drakis and Russia and the dovish remarks of Russians, the euro led the decline in the intraday foreign exchange market, which is currently located near 1.3840, while the safe-haven currencies, the US dollar and the Japanese yen, rose. Investors can continue to pay attention to the performance of the stock market, bond market and other related markets on Monday, which may also have a certain impact on the foreign exchange market.

Judging from the economic data, if the US retail sales in March announced on Monday are expected to increase due to strong automobile sales, it will show that US consumer demand has recovered from the cold winter. At present, foreign media surveys predict that the monthly retail sales rate in the United States will increase by 0.8% in March, far better than the previous value.