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EQUITIES
NEW YORK - Wall Street extended a seven-week rally on Friday after upbeat U.S. jobs and factory data hinted at stronger corporate earnings without increasing concerns of potential U.S. interest rate hikes.
The Labor Department's report showed solid gains in nonfarm payrolls in March while the unemployment rate rose to 5 percent from an eight-year low of 4.9 percent as more Americans entered the labor force.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI rose 0.61 percent to end at 17,792.75 points and the S&P 500 .SPX gained 0.63 percent to 2,072.78 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 0.92 percent to 4,914.54.
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LONDON - Britain's top equity index fell on Friday, dipping at the start of the second quarter of 2016 as weak oil prices weighed on the shares of major energy companies.
The blue-chip FTSE 100 index .FTSE closed down 0.5 percent at 6,146.05 points.
The FTSE and other European stock markets stayed in negative territory after U.S. jobs data was published.
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TOKYO - Japanese stocks tumbled to a 1-month low on Friday after the Bank of Japan's quarterly corporate survey showed business sentiment among large manufacturers sank to its lowest level in nearly three years, sapping risk appetite and weighing down stocks across the board.
The Nikkei share average .N225 shed 3.6 percent to end the day at 16,164.16, its lowest close since March 1. Japan's benchmark index ended the week 4.9 percent lower.
The broader Topix .TOPX fell 3.4 percent to end the day at 1,301.40 with each of its 33 subindexes in negative territory. The index ended the week 4.7 percent lower.
The JPX-Nikkei Index 400 .JPXNK400 declined 3.5 percent to 11,738.40.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The U.S. dollar was little changed against a basket of major currencies and hovered near more than five-month lows on Friday after traders grew less confident that stronger-than-expected U.S. economic data would alter the Federal Reserve's dovish course.
The dollar index .DXY , which measures the greenback against a basket of six major currencies, was last mostly flat at 94.615 and not far from a 5-1/2-month low of 94.319 struck on Thursday.
The dollar index was set to post its biggest weekly percentage decline since early February, of 1.6 percent. The euro meanwhile was poised for its biggest weekly gain against the dollar since the same date, of about 2 percent.x
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. short-dated Treasury yields rose on Friday from one-month lows in choppy trading as stronger-than-expected labor and factory data in March supported the view the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates later this year.
The U.S. benchmark 10-year Treasury note US10YT=RR was unchanged in price for a yield of 1.786 percent. The 10-year yield touched a one-month low of 1.762 percent earlier Friday and later reached a session high of 1.814 percent.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold fell more than 1 percent on Friday after U.S. March payrolls data beat expectations, allaying some fears about the U.S. economy and stoking speculation about the timing of likely interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve this year.
Spot gold XAU= was down 1 percent at $1,220.07 an ounce by 2:49 p.m. EDT, having earlier touched a low of $1,208.45, while U.S. gold futures GCv1 for June delivery settled down $12.1 an ounce at $1223.50.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Aluminium hit its highest in nearly three weeks on Friday after data showed China's factory sector grew for the first time in nine months, but other metals faltered after U.S. jobs data raised the prospect of further interest rates increases.
Three-month aluminium CMAL3 on the London Metal Exchange closed up 1.1 percent at $1,536 a tonne after touching an intraday peak of $1,547, its highest level since March 14.
LME copper CMCU3 , untraded in closing rings, was bid down 0.3 percent at $4,834 a tonne after sliding to $4,807, the lowest since March 3, extending a 0.5 percent loss from Thursday.
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil tumbled about 4 percent on Friday, after a Saudi prince reportedly said the kingdom will not freeze output without Iran and other major producers doing so, and data showed the global crude glut was likely to grow.
Brent crude for June delivery, the new front month contract for the global benchmark LCOc1 , settled down $1.68, or 4.1 percent, at $38.67 a barrel. It fell 3 percent for the week.
U.S. crude's front-month CLc1 settled down $1.55, or 4 percent, at $36.79. It lost 7 percent on the week, after gaining 4 percent in the first quarter and 14 percent in March.
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