Global FX TESTING DATA:

• • • Asian markets
      
      

      Asian shares dipped after North Korea fired another missile over Japan into the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating Pyongyang’s defiance in the face of intensifying sanctions.

       
    • GOLD
      
      

      Gold inched up as North Korea’s latest missile launch over Japan triggered safe-haven buying, but gains were limited as strong U.S. inflation data raised the spectre of another interest rate hike.

    • OIL
      
      Oil prices were lower on thin trading on Friday but on course for weekly gains, the third in a row in the case of Brent, as the clean-up after hurricanes in the United States gathered pace and the outlook for demand took on a firmer tone.
       
    • SOUTH KOREA
      
      South Korean President Moon Jae-in said North Korea’s latest launch of a missile over Japan will only result in further diplomatic and economic isolation for the North, and officials said Moon had also warned of possible new threats.“President Moon ordered officials to closely analyse and prepare for new possible North Korean threats like EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) and biochemical attacks,” Moon’s spokesman Park Su-hyun told a briefing.
       
    • CHINA
      
      A pick-up in China’s inflation during August was due mainly to short-term pressures and the headline consumer price index and producer price index levels will remain within a reasonable range.
       
    • NORTH KOREA
      
      North Korea fired a missile that flew over Japan’s northern Hokkaido far out into the Pacific Ocean on Friday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, further ratcheting up tensions after Pyongyang’s recent test of its most powerful nuclear bomb.
       
    • JAPAN
      
      Japanese manufacturers’ confidence worsened for the first time in four months in September from the previous month’s decade-high level and was expected to fall further, weighed by global uncertainty, a Reuters poll showed.
      
      TAIWAN
      
      A Taiwan district court sentenced a mainland Chinese student to 14 months imprisonment for breaching national security laws.The sentencing of Zhou Hongxu follows months of strained relations over the detention of a Taiwanese national in China.
       
    • BRAZIL
      
      Brazilian President Michel Temer was charged with obstruction of justice and racketeering, according to a statement posted on the prosecutor general’s office website, threatening to delay the government’s economic reform agenda in Congress.