Futures: Foreign currency futures are forward transactions with standard contract sizes and maturity dates — for example, 500,000 British pounds for next November at an agreed rate.

The currency trading (foreign exchange, Forex, FX) market is the biggest and fastest growing market on earth. Its daily turnover is more than 2.5 trillion dollars.

Tankan Survey - an economic survey of Japanese business issued by the central Bank of Japan, which it then uses to formulate monetary policy.