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  • Phillip Chan, Director at Shenyin Wanguo Securities says the recovery in China is heading in the right direction.

  • HONG KONG, Feb 4- Hong Kong shares rose on Monday to linger near 21- month highs, as investors gave further chase to the rally in the Chinese banking sector at the start of the last full week of trading before the Lunar New Year holiday. The China Enterprises Index of the top Chinese listings in Hong Kong rose 0.2 percent.

  • A secret legal review on the use of America's growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike if the United States detects credible evidence of a major digital attack looming from abroad, according to officials involved in the review. The New York Times reports.

  • MELBOURNE, Feb 4- Australia's Aquila Resources Ltd has put a A $7.4 billion iron ore project on ice at least through June due to funding difficulties, as soaring costs and volatile commodity prices take a toll on new mine developments.

  • *Spot gold neutral in $1,657.54- $1,681.70/ oz- technicals. Investors remain fairly optimistic in the U.S. recovery, which makes gold less attractive, even though recent data is rather a mixed bag, "said Chen Min, an analyst at Jinrui Futures in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen."

  • SINGAPORE, Feb 4- Brent crude steadied above $116 per barrel on Monday, holding near a more than four-month high, as data from top consumers United States and China reinforced a view that the global economy was headed for a modest uptick this year.

  • Mikio Kumada, Executive Director & Global Strategist at LGT Capital Partners tells CNBC's Cash Flow which global markets he thinks are hot right now.

  • *Sony jumps, still undervalued- analyst. TOKYO, Feb 4- Japan's Nikkei share average climbed to a fresh 33- month peak on Monday morning as a softer yen led exporters higher, and hints of a recovery for troubled consumer electronics companies saw Panasonic Corp storm up 16.9 percent in heavy trade.

  • Thomas Murphy, Managing Partner at Family Office Research & Management tells CNBC's CashFlow which sectors are worth looking into.

  • TOKYO, Feb 4- Japan's Nikkei share average climbed to a fresh 33- month high in early Monday trade, with consumer electronics in the spotlight on the back of a recovery in the third quarter, and a softer yen keeping exporters ahead of the market.

  • Emerson Yip, Greater China Investment Manager at JP Morgan Asset Management says that there will be differentiated performances in the markets as companies start reporting full year results for 2012.

  • SINGAPORE, Feb 4- Gold ticked lower for a second session in three on Monday as a string of data pointing to a U.S. economy on the mend gave investors less reason to buy assets deemed as safe-haven. *Spot gold slipped $1.43 to $1,665.11 an ounce by 0056 GMT.

  • HONG KONG, Feb 4- Hong Kong shares are set to start the week stronger on Monday, helped by a 2.5 percent jump in Ping An Insurance after China approved the sale of HSBC's remaining stake in the mainland's second-largest insurer. The Hang Seng Index was set to open up 0.6 percent at 23,866.8.

  • HONG KONG, Feb 4- Hong Kong shares could start the week higher on Monday, tracking Wall Street gains last Friday after positive U.S. jobs data that solidified expectation of growth.

  • SINGAPORE, Feb 4- U.S. crude futures steadied above $97 per barrel in early Asian trade on Monday after data from China and the United States last week reinforced expectations that economic growth in the world's two biggest energy consumers may be better this year than last.

  • TOKYO, Feb 4- Asian shares edged higher on Monday, buoyed by U.S. data which maintained expectations for a mild recovery and continued loose Federal Reserve monetary policy to support it, bolstered by solid manufacturing data from Europe and China.

  • European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany.

    Central banking is in a state of flux as policymakers from Tokyo to Washington ditch prevailing orthodoxies to try to grab a bigger share of a slow-growing global economic pie.

  • TOKYO, Feb 4- Japan's Nikkei share average was expected to climb on Monday after robust data pointed to a U.S. economic recovery on track, lifting U.S. stocks to five-year highs and helping the dollar extend gains against the yen.

  • Jian Chang, China Economist, Barclays says China's manufacturing and non-manufacturing PMIs show that domestic demand is strong. She cautions though that the imminent Lunar New Year may distort future data reads.

  • Foxconn, the contract manufacturer whose biggest customer is Apple, is preparing genuinely representative labor union elections in its factories in China for the first time, a powerful sign of the changes in the workshop of the world demanded by an increasingly restive workforce. The Financial Times reports.