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Starboard Value LP is putting new pressure on Yahoo Inc., calling on the company to halt the spinoff of its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

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Reuters with outlooks from Goldman Sachs:
– Says forecasts S&P GSCI total returns of -8 pct in 3 months, -4 pct in 6 months and -1 pct in 12 months
– Says in 2016, a slowdown in associated US  natural gas production along with strong, broad-based demand growth will provide enough of a catalyst for prices to increase to $2.85/mmbtu on average

All Industry Activity Index for September: -0.2%
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+0.2% expected and -0.1% prior
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Earlier from Japan today:

China vowed to “bring to justice” those responsible for executing one of its citizens after IS said it had killed a Chinese captive.

Forex news for Asia trading Thursday 19 November 2015
USD weakness following the publication of the October FOMC meeting Minutes carried on in Asia today. Currencies were broadly higher against the USD, with positioning cited as a key driver (i.e. stop losses on long US dollar positions).

Hans Redeker, Morgan Stanley’s head of global currency strategy, interview at the Morgan Stanley Asia Pacific Summit in Singapore.
Link is here
its been a long day … relax with a video (but not too much relaxing, K?)

The Bank of Japan left monetary policy unchanged
USD/JPY has continued to move a little lower (yen crosses are lower also, but broad USD selling is continuing, which is lending some support to the yen crosses)