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The ongoing US government shutdown has done little to rattle investor sentiment so far. Wall Street shrugged off the impasse, with the S&P 500 closing at a fresh record high overnight while DOW and NASDAQ also advanced. In Asia, risk appetite carried through as Hong Kong surged on its return from holiday and Japan’s Nikkei […]

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