| * Asian markets await Fed meeting outcome * Rupee tumbles on RBI's 'apologetic' tone * China injects funds into money markets, quelling fears * Genel increases Kurdistan gas estimate * Hussain elected president of Pakistan * Indonesia youth flock to Japanese lessons Markets: mixed Asian markets await Fed meeting outcome Asian markets were mixed with Japanese shares down ahead of multiple earnings reports and Chinese stocks up after the central bank moved to add liquidity to the interbank market to avert a repeat of last month's cash crunch. http://on.ft.com/18LVhWx Rupee tumbles on RBI's 'apologetic' tone India's rupee tumbled below the psychologically important threshold of Rs60 to the US dollar on Tuesday, after its central bank indicated that recent monetary tightening was a temporary measure to curb volatility. http://on.ft.com/1caeAg1 China injects funds into money markets, quelling fears China's central bank has injected money into the financial system for the first time in nearly half a year, seeking to stave off a repeat of the cash crunch that blighted the economy in June. http://on.ft.com/12ZBnTg Genel increases Kurdistan gas estimate Genel Energy, the oil explorer run by former BP chief Tony Hayward, is set to significantly increase its estimate for the amount of gas it has found in Iraqi Kurdistan, highlighting the region's potential as a major gas producer. http://on.ft.com/13wBJ2S Hussain elected president of Pakistan Pakistani legislators elected a textile businessman who briefly served as the governor of southern Sindh province as the country's next president on Tuesday, the election commission chief said. http://on.ft.com/18LVLvI Indonesia youth flock to Japanese lessons Rikho Sinurat studied Japanese at his Indonesian high school because he was a fan of the best-selling Dragon Ball and One Piece manga comics, but he continued in university for a more prosaic reason. "I wanted to do French at university, but my parents told me there are many more Japanese companies in Indonesia so I switched to Japanese," says the 23-year-old, who now works in the Jakarta office of Pacific Metals, a Japanese nickel producer. http://on.ft.com/1e85zk4 Emerging Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index down -0.48% at 949.09 Americas DJIA down -0.01% at 15,521 S&P 500 up +0.04% at 1,686 Bovespa down -1.32% at 48,562 Asia Nikkei 225 down -0.44% at 13,809 Topix down -0.20% at 1,146 Hang Seng up +0.28% at 22,016 Shanghai Composite up +0.58% at 2,002 MSCI Asia ex-Japan down -0.52% at 517.80 CNX Nifty down -0.78% at 5,710 Currencies €/$ 1.33 (1.33) $/¥ 98.13 (98.03) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.08 at 106.83 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.24 at 103.32 100 Oz Gold (Comex) up +7.40 at 1,331 |