Fundamentally speaking there were just a few big economic data scheduled for the past week. The only big economic data was coming from Asia and Australia, and from US we had the retail sales which in November were above expectations coming in at 0.7%, an increase of 0.1% from last reading of 0.6%. Also, this week the US Congress has reached an agreement on the US budget to avoid another government shutdown in January. As usual after this announcement, taper talks hit again the market as the spec…