The ongoing issues are the strength of the economy and whether or not the pace of the recovery is in fact slowing down. One of the important things this week will be to see the extent of the damage.

The only disappointing part is that my holiday at home has been cut short by a couple of weeks due to some schedule changes that require me back in India earlier in January than I was hoping for.

The only real debate for UK rates now is timing and whether the MPC will pre-empt market expectations for a February cut with an earlier move.

The only reasons to vote will be yes or no on ANWR, not Medicare or anything else, so maybe the House will have the votes for it, as compared with a vote for a mixture.

The only role we can play is to continue to very actively work to persuade the Japanese government to face these very difficult issues they have to deal with,