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Finally, after muchos trials and tribulations my CHFNOK and CHFSEK come good.

You can't... I have tried to buy some pa, but no luck.

I am here... You're right, the above makes very little sense, but it's OK, no point arguing about it.

It is limited solely by the "will" of the various stakeholders.

It's a bird, it's a plane... No, it's the SNB EURCHF floor.

No, it doesn't, but there's no point arguing about it...

He's got an axe to grind, so I would treat what he says with a large pinch of salt.

Huh?

Don't look at the futures, look at cash bonds. There's no 30y JGB futures, but there are 30y JGBs. You should be able to find the data here: US: http://www.federalreserve.gov/Releases/h15/data.htm Japan: http://www.mof.go.jp/english/jgbs/reference/interest_rate/index.htm

Indeed, you should stop, dude... It's a pointless exercise.

Oh no...

FRED is your friend. http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/

The "zero bound" has all sorts of implications for monetary policy. As to your second question, I am the wrong person to ask.

Well, what "other investments" might those be? As to what people have done, see for yourself:

There are no direct implications, other than what it means for central bank capabilities.

These are both non-deliverable, if I am not mistaken. I don't believe that many retail brokers offer TWD & MYR NDFs. Some Asian banks (e.g. Singaporean ones) might, though.

I hope you managed to get some on, Cyrix...

Or maybe it's because Americans don't travel much abroad, on the whole. So foreign currency is a bit of an exotic product which is traded with a large "markup".

No, not really, but then the Swiss have shown us that it's possible...

Or, given the SNB is on the bid for shorter dates at -1%, not... Might be worth waiting. Three CHF panel banks submitted negative rates today (across different maturities).