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7,124.23 +7.31 DJIA
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17,024.76 +164.67 NASDAQ
5,230.90 -97.77 FTSE
7,070.88 -26.62 S&P 500
2,130.66 -33.00 Hang Seng
23,549.52 -302.30 SPI 200 Fut
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0.7053 0.7071 EUR US$
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103.32 103.90 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Commodities Gold (Lon)
1,253.45
Silver (Lon)
17.42 Gold (NY)
1,259.36
Light Crude
50.73 TRJCRB Index
189.08 -1.20 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks tumbled on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq on track for their worst day in one month, after Alcoa (NYSE:AA) kicked off the earnings season on a dour note.
At 12:32 p.m. ET (1632 GMT), the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI was down 164.6 points, or 0.9 percent, at 18,164.44.The S&P 500 .SPX was down 21.61 points, or 1 percent, at 2,142.05 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC was down 67.63 points, or 1.27 percent, at 5,261.05.
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LONDON - Britain's blue-chip equity index hit an all-time high on Tuesday while the mid-cap index outperformed European peers as sterling came under renewed pressure on currency markets, though a fall in commodity-related stocks weighed.
The FTSE 100 .FTSE index closed 0.4 percent lower at 7,070.88 points, having hit a record high of 7,129.83 points earlier in the session.
For a full report, double click on .L
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TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei share average rose to a five-week high on Tuesday, led by mining stocks after oil prices jumped the previous day and a weak yen lifted risk appetite.
The Nikkei rose 1.0 percent to 17,024.76, the highest closing level since Sept. 6.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The dollar hit an 11-week high on Tuesday as investors increased bets that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates in December following a round of generally solid U.S. economic data over the last few weeks.
In mid-morning trading, the dollar index - which measures the greenback against six major peers - jumped 0.5 percent to 97.450 .DXY , after hitting its highest since late July.
For a full report, double click on USD/
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasury yields rose on Tuesday with benchmark 10-year notes hitting their highest since June 3 as risk appetite returned to markets following Friday's largely in-line U.S. nonfarm payrolls report and Russia's announcement it would cut oil production in line with OPEC.
Benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury notes US10YT=RR were down 12/32 in price to yield 1.78 percent, the highest since June's anemic U.S. jobs report torpedoed investor bets on a rate hike by the Fed that month.
For a full report, double click on US/
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold prices fell on Tuesday as the dollar strengthened on increasing bets that the Federal Reserve will raise U.S. interest rates in December.
Spot gold XAU= had dropped 0.3 percent at $1,255.7 an ounce by 1:47 p.m. EDT (1747 GMT), while U.S. gold futures GCcv1 settled down 0.4 percent at $1,255.9 per ounce.
For a full report, double click on GOL/
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Aluminium prices hit two-month highs on Tuesday before retreating on profit-taking as the spotlight returned to oversupply and expectations of rising output in China.
Benchmark aluminium CMAL3 ended down 0.7 percent at $1,679 a tonne. The metal used in transport and packaging had earlier touched $1,693, it highest since Aug. 18.
For a full report, double click on MET/L
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil fell almost 2 percent on Tuesday, retreating from one-year highs, after mixed responses by Russian oil industry officials toward an OPEC call for all major crude producers to cut output.
Brent crude oil LCOc1 was down $1, or 1.9 percent, at $52.14 a barrel by 11:42 a.m. EDT (1541 GMT), off the one-year high of $53.73 hit on Monday.
For a full report, double click on O/R
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