Global FX TESTING DATA:

• • • Asian markets
      
      

      Asian stocks faltered on Tuesday as Chinese economic data disappointed and investors pondered whether a marked flattening in the U.S. yield curve might ultimately be a harbinger of a slowdown there.

    • GOLD
      
      
      Gold prices were little changed early on Tuesday, with the dollar supported by higher U.S. Treasury yields and Asian stocks down amid uncertainty over tax reforms in the United States.
       
    • OIL
      
      Oil prices fell on Tuesday as the cautious sentiment of the past week prevailed, despite ongoing OPEC-led production cuts and Middle East tensions.

    • US
      
      A U.S. appeals court in California on Monday let President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban go partially into effect, ruling the government can bar entry of people from six Muslim-majority countries with no connections to the United States.

    • AUSTRALIA
      
      The United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday urged Australia to accept New Zealand’s offer to resettle 150 refugees from an abandoned Australian-run detention centre in Papua New Guinea, as about 450 men remain barricaded inside without food or water.
       
    • CHINA
      
      China’s industrial output cooled last month, while fixed asset investment and retail sales grew slower than expected, suggesting the economy may be loosing some steam as the government cracks down on debt risks and pollution.
      
      INDIA
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      Uber’s chief of policy for India and South Asia has quit, two sources familiar with the matter said on Monday, in the latest high-level departure at the online taxi company.Shweta Rajpal Kohli, a former Indian journalist who joined Uber last year, would join cloud-based software maker Salesforce.com Inc next month, the sources told Reuters.
      
       
    • MAYANMAR
      
       Myanmar’s army released a report on Monday denying all allegations of rape and killings by security forces, having days earlier replaced the general in charge of the operation that drove more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh.
       
    • IRAQ/IRAN
      
      Thousands of homeless Iranians huddled against the cold late on Monday, a day after at least 450 people were killed in Iran’s deadliest earthquake in more than a decade.Rescue teams kept up search operations for dozens trapped beneath the rubble of collapsed houses in towns and villages in the mountainous area of the western province of Kermanshah that borders Iraq.