In the meantime, Reuters reports that police cleared a few remaining Occupy Hong Kong protesters from an open-air plaza beneath HSBC's Asian headquarters on Tuesday, nearly a year after the anti-capitalists pitched their tents in the heart of Hong Kong's financial district.
Finally, the news agency also reports that U.S. futures regulators urged a delay in cash payouts to bankrupt Peregrine Financial Group's former customers, after finding false bookkeeping that cast doubts on a plan to return a portion of funds frozen since the brokerage's mid-July collapse.
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