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* HSI financial sector sub-index is flat; property sector down 0.5 percent

* European stocks open lower * Deutsche Bank, Caixabank, Sabadell down after results * Apple posts record profit, Alphabet disappoints * Eyes on US payrolls data Feb 2 (Reuters) - Welcome to the...

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NEW YORK, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Blackstone Group LP President Tony James said on Thursday the future of the Thomson Reuters Financial and Risk business is in selling data, not in selling terminal desktop products to traders, bankers and investors.

TOKYO, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Japan's financial regulator conducted a spot inspection on Coincheck Inc on Friday to protect users, Finance Minister Taro Aso said, as authorities tried to pin down how hackers stole $530 million of digital money from the Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange.

TOKYO, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average fell on Friday morning led by weakness in most sectors, with banking stocks down on worries domestic yields would be kept low after the central bank conducted a special bond purchase operation.

SHANGHAI, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Chinese stocks fell in early trade on Friday, with small-cap firms struggling and trading suspended in a slew of companies, amid concerns about a pending wave of margin calls and as some announced share purchase schemes to bolster fading confidence.

WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it issued an order on Thursday filing and settling charges against Deutsche Bank Securities Inc, a unit of Deutsche Bank AG, for attempted manipulation of the ISDAFIX benchmark and requiring the firm to pay a $70 million civil...