Global FX TESTING DATA:

• • • Asian markets
      
      

      Asian shares hit decade highs on Monday and the dollar held firm early in a week in which the U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to wrestle with its bloated balance sheet as part of a long reversal of super-cheap money worldwide.

       
    • GOLD
      
      

      Gold prices fell in Asia on Monday as investors moved away from risk trades on North Korea tensions, but copper staged gains as housing data from China showed countinued gains for prices albeit at a slower pace that the previous month.

    • OIL
      
      Oil markets were firm and remained near multi-month highs reached late last week as the number of U.S. rigs drilling for new production fell and refineries continued to start up after getting knocked out by Hurricane Harvey.
       
    • NORTH KOREA
      
      North Korea’s nuclear threat looms large this week over the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in New York, where diplomats are eager to hear U.S. President Donald Trump address the 193-member body for the first time.
       
    • UK
      
      British households are feeling the tightest squeeze on their finances in three years and the Bank of England’s signal that it is getting close to raising interest rates is likely to make things worse, a survey showed on Monday.
       
    • UN
      
      When President Donald Trump takes the world stage at the United Nations for the first time this week, he will share the spotlight with his envoy Nikki Haley, who has emerged as the surprising public face of U.S. foreign policy.
       
    • MAYANMAR
      
      Thousands of Rohingya Muslims in violence-racked northwest Myanmar are pleading with authorities for safe passage from two remote villages that are cut off by hostile Buddhists and running short of food.
      
      GERMANY
      
      Germany’s Free Democrats (FDP) would want the finance ministry in exchange for joining Chancellor Angela Merkel in the country’s next coalition government, a member of the party’s executive said.
       
    • PAKISTAN
      
      The wife of ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday captured his parliamentary seat with a reduced majority in a by-election seen as a test of support for the Sharif dynasty ahead of the 2018 general election.