A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook Nine of the G10 central banks are expected to cut interest rates next year. Not Japan. Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda’s open discussion of a difficult policy year ahead and of possible paths out of negative interest rates has jolted short sellers out of the yen, afraid that the long-awaited yen rally may have begun. The yen is up four weeks in a row for the first time since March. It steadied in Tokyo trade on Friday, perhaps since data showed the economy slowed more sharply than first thought in the third quarter, wh…