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Early weakness in Japan, Australia and New Zealand stocks faded Friday morning, but Asia-Pacific markets overall lacked direction following weakness in Europe and swings on Wall Street.
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Forex news for Asia trading Friday 20 October 2017
It was a quiet session to begin with. News out of Spain that on Friday morning might cause a bit of stir in early Europe. EUR barely budged though.

Third Quarter Summary

SYDNEY, Australia, Oct. 19, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Prima BioMed Ltd (ASX:PRR) (NASDAQ: PBMD) (“Prima”) announces that Dr. Frédéric Triebel, Prima’s Chief Scientific Officer & Medical Officer, will be giving an oral presentation on Prima’s ongoing TACTI-mel Phase 1 clinical trial in metastatic melanoma at the World Immunotherapy Congress 2017 in Basel, Switzerland at 5.50pm CEST on October 31, 2017.

Actor Sean Penn is lashing out at Netflix Inc. for its upcoming documentary series about Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman for implying that he tipped his location to the U.S.

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UBS economists comments on China economic growth and the CNY
– Sees Q3 GDP to slow to 6.6%
– 2017 GDP at 6.8%
– GDP to slow further in 2018
– Sees no change to interest rates in months ahead
(Headlines via Bloomberg)

Most of the municipalities meeting Jeff Bezos and company’s stated criteria for the home of a secondary headquarters, and some falling short, have expressed at least provisional interest in attracting the planned 50,000 jobs, their $100,000 typical salary and the $5 billion initial investment proffered.

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