Global FX DATA:

• • • ASIAN MARKET
      
      Asian markets were mixed on Monday as the markets took in stride a US government shutdown at the weekend that could end as early as Monday as the Senate moved to schedule a vote at noon to fund the government for three weeks and for time to pass complex legislation on immigration.
       
    • GOLD
      

      Gold prices rose slightly in Asia on Monday with the market awaiting word on a possible deal for a Senate vote to end the US government shutdown that has weighed on the dollar and raised interest in greenback-denominated commodities such as the yellow metal.

    • OIL
      
      Oil prices climbed on Monday, pushed higher by comments from Saudi Arabia that cooperation between oil producers who are currently withholding supplies would continue beyond 2018.
       
    • MAYANMAR
      
      Tensions mounted on Sunday at refugee camps in Bangladesh holding hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims over an operation to send them back to Myanmar, from where they have fled following a military crackdown.
       
    • TOKYO
      
      Tokyo braced for heavy snowfall on Monday, prompting Japan’s national broadcaster to urge the city’s workaholic citizens to head home early, and some train operators to cancel services.Financial markets in the United States and Asian stocks took a knock early on Monday after the U.S. government was forced to shut down amid a dispute between President Donald Trump and Democrats over immigration.
       
    • CRYPTOCURRENCY
      
      Worries about a crackdown by global regulators on cryptocurrency trading could slow the pace of bitcoin’s rise but should not threaten its existence, At the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami, investors and executives interviewed by Reuters were unfazed by government moves to further regulate cryptocurrencies, which have sent prices into a tailspin.
       
    • THAILAND
      
       A motorcycle bomb exploded in a market in Thailand’s southern Yala province on Monday, killing three people and wounding 18.The mostly Muslim provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala in Thailand’s far south are home to a long-running insurgency by ethnic Malay Muslims fighting for autonomy in which more than 6,000 people have been killed since 2004.

    • VIETNAM
      
      A court in Vietnam sentenced a former politburo member to 13 years in prison on Thursday for violating state regulations amid a widespread corruption crackdown.Dinh La Thang, a former chairman of state oil and gas group PetroVietnam, is the most senior politician to be charged in decades.

    • KABUL
      
      Gunmen in army uniforms who stormed Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel late on Saturday and battled Afghan Special Forces through the night killed more than 30 people and wounded many more, although the final toll of dead and wounded may still be higher.
       

    • JAPAN
      
      Japanese retail investors are pulling out of a popular bear market fund as a rally in the benchmark Nikkei index to 26-year highs prompts many market participants to ditch their contrarian strategies.

    • US 
      
      A U.S. government shutdown will enter its third day on Monday as Senate negotiators failed to reach a deal late on Sunday on Democrats’ demand for legislation protecting “Dreamers,” young people brought to the country illegally as children.
       

    • INDIA
      
      India will cut rates on some products and services under the new Goods and Services Tax (GST), the finance minister said , in a bid to encourage greater compliance as revenues have dipped since the landmark reform was announced in July.