Global FX DATA:

• • • ASIAN MARKET
      
      Asian shares gained on Monday, taking a cue from Wall Street after Congress and President Trump managed to reach an agreement to fund the government for three more weeks.
       
    • GOLD
      

      Gold prices rose slightly in Asia 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 rose on Tuesday, lifted by healthy economic growth as well as the ongoing supply restraint by a group of exporters around OPEC and Russia.
       
    • CHINA
      
      China's state-backed Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC) will take its electric vehicle unit public by injecting it into another listed subsidiary, boosting its financial muscle as the battle for the country's hotly contested green car market heats up.
       
    • TOKYO
      
      One man was killed and at least 11 people injured, some critically, when rocks from an erupting volcano rained down on skiers at a mountain resort in central Japan on Tuesday and an avalanche soon after the eruption engulfed about a dozen skiers.
       
    • 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.
       
    • RUSSIA
      
      Mercedes-Benz Rus, the Russian dealer of the famous automobile brand produced by Daimler AG, will recall 6,639 cars sold in Russia, Russia’s technical safety watchdog Rosstandart said on Tuesday.

    • PHILLIPINE
      
      A central Philippine province suspended work on Tuesday in public and private offices in at least three towns as a heavy fall of ash hit urban areas, amid the continued eruption of the country’s most active volcano.

    • QATAR
      
      Qatar has sent out a request for proposals to banks to arrange an international bond issue, which would be Qatar's first appearance in the international debt markets since the beginning of a diplomatic crisis in the Gulf last year.
       

    • JAPAN
      
      Japan’s central bank kept monetary settings unchanged on Tuesday and offered a more upbeat view on inflation expectations than three months ago, signalling its conviction a strengthening recovery will gradually push price growth to its 2 percent target.

    • US 
      
      The U.S. economy is likely to grow in 2018 at its fastest pace in three years, fueled by the biggest tax overhaul since the 1980s, a majority of economists said in a Reuters poll that also showed they expected the boost to be short-lived.

    • INDIA
      
      India’s oil ministry is pushing for a cut in excise duty on petrol and diesel in the upcoming 2018/19 budget to cushion the impact of rising oil prices on its vast consumer base, two oil ministry officials told Reuters on Monday.