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The US announced sanctions on Cypriot and Russian businessmen who allegedly helped Syria evade international sanctions, the FT reports.

Forex news for Asia trading Thursday 26 November 2015
New Zealand trade balance data kicked off the session, with a lower than expected result for all 3 of the trade deficit, exports and imports results. The main market focus for the session, though, was the Q3 Australian capital expenditure data, which came in a huge headline miss and an on-expectation result for the important 4th estimate of 2015/16 investment.

Any benefits to Malaysia markets from troubled 1MDB’s asset sale may be limited to the currency, with analysts still downbeat on stocks.

Nearly 46.9 million Americans will travel over the long Thanksgiving weekend – the busiest U.S. travel holiday of the year.

In its latest propaganda video, ISIS lists countries that it says are part of a global coalition against it. Among them: Taiwan.

The dollar was back on a bullish footing o Thursday helped by upbeat U.S. data and monetary easing expectations that dragged down the euro.

Russia’s Sergey Lavrov is not one foreign minister known to mince his words. Just earlier today, 24 hours after a Russian plane was brought down by the country whose president three years ago said “a short-term border violation can never be a pretext for an attack”, had this to say: “We have serious doubts this was an unintended incident and believe this is a planned provocation” by Turkey.

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