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Investors' focus at the end of the week would shift towards Asia, where the Japanese Bureau of Statistics was set to publish consumer price data for October.
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Investors' focus over the coming week will be on the Chancellor's Autumn statement, on Tuesday, with the most recent economic data showing that he had approximately £90bn of leeway to tweak fiscal policy.