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STOCKS: N. Korea has it seems instilled fear into the markets with most of Wall

Street indices ending lower along with European stocks. The Asian markets

haven't escaped although showing signs of stabilising as gains in gold and yen

steadied too... The Nikkei 225 is currently down 20.29pts at 20337.29 as it sits

in the lunch break. Investors earlier retreated to safe havens in fixed income

markets after the N. Korea foreign minister said it could fire even if the U.S

were not in local airspace as comments from Trump suggesting the U.S would take

out N. Korean leadership were considered by N. Korea as 'an act of war.'

- As predicted by sources early on in the session, 'the sector of the Aussie

market that looks set to perform is energy, with both Brent and US crude gaining

over 2.5%.' The ASX is up last at around 5685.301. Similarly one of the only

sectors up within in the Nikkei is energy, as company Inpex extends gains

benefitting from oil rallies and the Hang Seng index lies relatively flat but

again energy best performing.

- USDJPY dipped to 111.5 after meeting minutes were released by BOJ but now at

111.61 after hitting 112.53 during yesterdays Asia-Pac session.