Notes today:

• Gold is trying to wake up -  it’s up 2% to $1708 

• Reserve Bank of Australia chief Philip Lowe repeats that interest rates are unlikely to rise until at least 2024 as inflation is a long way from goal.

• Hackers breach thousands of security cameras, exposing tesla, jails, hospitals..

• The Baltic Exchange's rose for the sixth straight session - up 2.6% to 1,901. 
• The Capesize index, rose 6.8% to 1,950.
• The Supramax index rose 36 points to 1,969.
• The Panamax is down a bit to 2,238.
• Asian shipping container shortage - continues.

• Business confidence in India is at at decade high of 74.2  up from 70.2

• The number of China-Europe freight trains hit 1,165 in January, up 66 % YoY. 
• Some 9.97 million pieces of anti-epidemic supplies, weighing 80,000 tonnes, have been sent to European countries including Germany, Poland and Belgium by the trains since the epidemic outbreak.