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Asia isn’t about to bounce,” said Frederic Neumann, co-head of Asia Economics Research at HSBC in Hong Kong on Monday in a note to clients. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is likely to revise downwards its estimates for global economic growth due to slower growth in emerging economies, IMF head Christine Lagarde said in a newspaper interview.

U.S. airline JetBlue will add a second charter flight from New York’s John F. Kennedy airport to Havana, expanding charter service ahead of an expected opening of commercial air travel between the two countries, the company said on Monday. The new round-trip, non-stop flight will operate every Tuesday starting Dec. 1 in partnership with Cuba Travel Services, a travel provider licensed by the U.S. government to arrange flights to Cuba. The two companies currently operate one of two other JFK-to-Havana charter flights.

U.S. cable company Comcast Corp said on Monday it has agreed to buy a 51 percent stake in Osaka-based theme park operator USJ Co for $1.5 billion. Comcast said in a statement Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Seoul-based …

Stocks in Singapore, a commodities-trading hub, have come under fire amid signals of China’s stalling economy and weak business climate, which have hurt commodities prices
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Suppose you were approached by a person at a bar who said you have lovely jewelry and a cute outfit and it’d be nice to get to know you better. Good as such words might make you feel, they wouldn’t…

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Final release now out but not Tier 1
– coincident index final 113.1 vs 112.2 prev
USDJPY and Nikkei going nowhere fast at 120.32 and 17,676 after earlier falls

Squawk Box Live in Europe will have full reaction of the local elections that took place in the Spanish region of Catalonia Sunday.