Global FX TESTING DATA:

• • • Asian markets
      
      

      Asian stocks wobbled but still marked a 10-year high, cheered by record highs on Wall Street, while shares of Apple Inc’s suppliers dipped following the release of the latest iPhone.

       
    • GOLD
      
      

      Gold prices held steady as the dollar remained firm, with safe-haven demand for the metal buoyed after U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest comments on tensions over North Korea.

    • OIL
      
      Oil prices were mixed early, but largely held on to gains in the previous session after OPEC said it expected higher demand for its crude next year.
       
    • CHINA
      
      China is facing heightened threats from foreign infiltration via religion and from the spread of extremism, a top official for religious affairs said on Tuesday, after strict new rules were passed to manage religious practice in the country.President Xi Jinping has emphasized the need to guard against foreign infiltration through religion and to prevent the spread of “extremist” ideology, while also being tolerant of traditional faiths that he sees as a salve to social ills.
       
    • JAPAN/INDIA
      
      Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will lay the foundation stone for India’s first bullet train in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state Gujarat this week, in a tightening of ties just days after New Delhi ended a dangerous military confrontation with China.The move by Abe, who starts a two-day visit to India on Wednesday, highlights an early lead for Japan in a sector where the Chinese have also been trying to secure a foothold, but without much success.
       
    • AUSTRALIA
      
      Australia’s prudential regulator said on Wednesday that money-laundering accusations leveled at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia do not challenge the bank’s viability.The country’s biggest lender was sued by financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC  over 53,700 suspected breaches of money-laundering laws.The case is the biggest of its kind in Australian corporate history, potentially exposing the bank to billions of dollars in fines.“It’s had negligible impact in terms of loss of customers, loss of deposits, or any other impact that would make a material difference to the viability of the bank.”
      
      LONDON
      
      Two U.S. astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday, about six hours after their Soyuz spacecraft blasted off from Kazakhstan, a NASA TV broadcast showed.The crew successfully performed a fast-track transit to the station, which orbits about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth, to begin a five-month mission. Failure would have forced the spacecraft to take a two-day route for another attempt at docking.
      
      MEXICO
      
      Destruction wrought by Mexico’s massive earthquake has put a spotlight on the quasi-matriarchal indigenous traditions of the worst affected town, with women and third-gender ‘muxes’ playing a leading role in the aftermath of the disaster.Located in Mexico’s narrow isthmus region, Juchitan bore the brunt of the 8.1 magnitude earthquake that flattened thousands of buildings in the humid market town in a matter of seconds and took at least 98 lives nationwide.