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AU 10 YR Bond
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3.320 +0.010 US 30 YR Bond
2.897 +0.036 Currencies (Prev at 7pm NZST)
AUD US$
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0.6530 0.6587 EUR US$
1.0886 1.0956 Yen US$
124.35 123.98 Commodities
Gold (Lon)
1090.65
Silver (Lon)
14.52
Gold (NY)
1085.75
Light Crude
45.76
---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - Wall Street extended losses on Tuesday as investors worried about a rise in interest rates while Apple's shares hit their lowest in over six months.
At 2:16 pm the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was down or 0.51 percent at 17,508.5 and the S&P 500 .SPX was down or 0.43 percent at 2,089.09. The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 0.41 percent to 5,094.48.
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LONDON - Top UK shares ended Tuesday on a flat note, with the market pegged back by a mixed bag of corporate earnings and a $30-billion bid from drugmaker Shire SHP.L to buy rival Baxalta BXLT.N .
The FTSE 100 .FTSE lost 2.05 points on the day, closing at 6,686.57 points. The index's skew towards mining and energy stocks have exposed it to fears over China's growth prospects and commodity price falls.
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TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei share average edged down on Tuesday on weakness in manufacturing activity in China and the United States, prompting investors to rotate out of cyclicals to defensive stocks such as drugmakers.
The benchmark average .N225 fell as much as 0.5 percent and closed at 20,520.36, down 0.1 percent. The broader Topix .TOPX was flat at 1,659.83.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The dollar climbed to session highs against the yen and euro on Tuesday after the Wall Street Journal published online an interview with Atlanta Federal Reserve President Dennis Lockhart who said the Fed is "close" to being ready to hike rates.
The greenback was last up 0.1 percent at 124.13 yen JPY= , while the euro hit a session low against the dollar at $1.0922 EUR= .
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasuries prices slipped on Tuesday after greater price stability in Chinese shares and oil reduced safe-haven bids, while uncertainty ahead of Friday's U.S. monthly jobs report limited trading activity.
Benchmark 10-year Treasury notes US10YT=RR were last down 7/32 in price to yield 2.18 percent, from a yield of 2.15 percent late Monday. U.S. 30-year bonds US30YT=RR were last down 8/32 in price to yield 2.87 percent, from a yield of 2.86 percent late Monday.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
LONDON - Gold rose on Tuesday as the dollar weakened after soft U.S. economic data, while platinum and palladium hit multi-year lows on oversupply and sluggish autocatalyst demand.
Spot gold XAU= was up 0.5 percent at $1,091.06 an ounce by 1328 GMT, but still not far above the $1,077 it hit on July 24, its weakest level since February 2010.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper prices bounced on Tuesday in response to a weaker dollar and a rally in Chinese equities, but significant gains are unlikely until markets shift their focus back to fundamentals from macro-economics.
Benchmark copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange ended up at $5,235 a tonne, from $5,220 at the close on Monday, when the metal used in power and construction fell to a six-year low at $5,142.
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OIL
NEW YORK - Global crude prices advanced from multi-month lows on Tuesday, helped by a stock market rally in No. 2 oil consumer China, but abundant supply and a weak demand outlook make crude's rebound unlikely to hold, traders and analysts said.
At the close, Brent LCOc1 was up 47 cents, or 1 percent, at $49.99 a barrel. It hit a six-month low on Monday, coming within cents of its 2015 bottom of $49.19.
U.S. crude CLc1 settled up 57 cents, or 1.3 percent, at $45.74. It plumbed a four-month bottom of $45.17 the previous session, about $3 from the year low.
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