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5,478.29 +9.07 NZSX 50
7,387.95 +20.60 DJIA
18,437.24 -65.75 Nikkei
16,725.36 -12.13 NASDAQ
5,214.48 -17.85 FTSE
6,820.79 -17.26 S&P 500
2,173.78 -6.60 Hang Seng
23,016.11 +194.77 SPI 200 Fut
5,459.00 +0.00 STI
2,828.39 -1.04 SSEC
3,076.20 +6.17 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bonds
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NetChg AU 10 YR Bond
1.890 +0.000 US 10 YR Bond
1.570 +0.004 NZ 10 YR Bond
2.265 +0.000 US 30 YR Bond
2.233 +0.017 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Currencies
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1700GMT AUD US$
0.7503 0.7556 NZD US$
0.7211 0.7241 EUR US$
1.1137 1.1173 Yen US$
103.02 102.25 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Commodities Gold (Lon)
1,318.15
Silver (Lon)
18.60 Gold (NY)
1,323.01
Light Crude
46.45 TRJCRB Index
182.82 -1.61 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) dragged down U.S. stocks after EU antitrust regulators ordered the company to pay about $14.5 billion in back taxes to the Irish government, but a gain in financial stocks limited the impact.
At 12:23 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was down 47.6 points, or 0.26 percent, at 18,455.39.The S&P 500 .SPX was down 3.22 points, or 0.15 percent, at 2,177.16.The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC was down 7.80 points, or 0.15 percent, at 5,224.52.
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LONDON - European equities climbed to a two-week high on Tuesday, with financial stocks gaining ground on mounting expectations of a possible U.S. rate hike this year.
Banks helped the pan-European STOXX 600 .STOXX to close 0.5 percent higher, after rising earlier in the session to its highest level since mid-August.
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TOKYO - Japanese stocks ended marginally lower on Tuesday as the yen's extensive retreat stalled and as investors awaited U.S. job data later this week for more clues on a possible U.S. interest rate hike this year.
The Nikkei .N225 slipped 0.1 percent to 16,725.36 points, retreating from strong gains the previous day when it added 2.3 percent following hawkish-sounding comments from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The dollar rose to a three-week high against a basket of currencies, and a one-month high against the yen, on Tuesday as investors looked ahead to crucial jobs data this week for clues on when the Federal Reserve will next raise interest rates.
The dollar index, which measures the currency against a basket of six majors, rose as high as to 96.143 .DXY , its highest level since Aug. 9, before falling back to 96.062, up 0.50 percent on the day.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasury prices were little moved on Tuesday with investors holding their positions after comments from Federal Reserve Vice Chair Stanley Fischer that put a spotlight on Friday's non-farm payrolls report.
Benchmark 10-year Treasury notes US10YT=RR were little changed in price to yield 1.571 percent. Two-year Treasury notes US10YT=RR also hovered near their late Monday levels, yielding 0.805 percent.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold fell to a six-week low on Tuesday after Federal Reserve officials sounded a hawkish note on interest rates, boosting the dollar, while attention turned to U.S. payrolls data this week for further clues on the pace of rate hikes. Spot gold XAU= was down 0.8 percent at $1,312.71 an ounce by 2:49 p.m. EDT (1849 GMT), after falling as low as $1,311.65, the lowest since July 21.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper languished near a 10-week low on Tuesday for the seventh consecutive session as inventories rose and the market focused on U.S. non-farm payrolls data later this week for clues to the timing of U.S. interest rate rises.
Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange CMCU3 ended down 0.2 percent at $4,607 a tonne, from an earlier $4,600, its lowest since June 24. It has fallen more than 8 percent since the middle of July.
For a full report, double click on MET/L
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil prices fell Tuesday, with Brent losing nearly 2 percent, as the dollar rallied and glut worries grew amid forecasts for higher U.S. crude stockpiles and Iran's remark that it was on target to reach peak production
Brent crude futures LCOc1 settled down 89 cents, or 1.8 percent, at $48.37 per barrel.
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