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-----------------------(07:18 / 2118 GMT)----------------------- Stock Markets
5,112.14 +90.51 NZSX 50
5,585.43 -7.93 DJIA
16,272.01 -12.69 Nikkei
17,722.42 +334.27 NASDAQ
4,627.08 +6.92 FTSE
6,072.47 +10.86 S&P 500
1,923.82 +3.79 Hang Seng
20,846.30 +289.70 SPI 200 Fut
5,062.00 -18.00 TRJCRB Index
192.51 -1.25
Bonds
AU 10 YR Bond
2.606 -0.008 US 10 YR Bond
2.042 -0.018 NZ 10 YR Bond
3.320 +0.000 US 30 YR Bond
2.853 -0.025
Currencies (Prev at 7pm NZST)
AUD US$
0.7027 0.7063 NZD US$
0.6391 0.6406 EUR US$
1.1188 1.1141 Yen US$
119.90 120.12
Commodities
Gold (Lon)
1119.00
Silver (Lon)
14.46
Gold (NY)
1114.60
Light Crude
45.02
---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed slightly higher on Thursday in a choppy start to the fourth quarter as investors waited for the monthly U.S. jobs report and the start of earnings season.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 12.69 points, or 0.08 percent, to 16,272.01, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 3.79 points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,923.82 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 6.92 points, or 0.15 percent, to 4,627.08.
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LONDON - UK shares outperformed their European counterparts on Thursday as mining and oil and gas companies rose, although weakness on Wall Street trimmed the gains. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index .FTSE closed just 10.86 points higher, up 0.2 percent at 6,072.47 points, having been up by more than 1 percent for most of the session.
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TOKYO - Japanese stocks rose on Thursday, taking comfort from surveys showing contractions in China's manufacturing activity may have bottomed out and on pockets of strength among Japanese firms despite the crunch felt by weak external demand.
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SYDNEY - Australian shares are set to open lower on Friday with investors likely to take profits after two solid days of gains and following an uninspiring session from Wall Street.
Local share price index futures YAPcm1 fell 0.4 percent or 18.0 points, a 50.14 point discount to the underlying S&PASX200 index. The benchmark rose 1.8 percent to 5,112.1 in the previous session.
Australia's August retail sales data and U.S. nonfarm payrolls data will be released later today.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The dollar drifted lower on Thursday as traders puzzled over data sending contrary messages about the U.S. economy and prospects for a 2015 interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve.
The dollar index .DXY dipped after the ISM report and was last off 0.35 percent, just above its low of the day, and within a tight trading range likely to continue until Friday's employment data are published.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasury debt prices pared gains on Thursday with benchmark yields falling to their lowest in over five weeks as a further deceleration in U.S. manufacturing stoked investor worries in advance of Friday's U.S. payrolls report.
The 30-year bond US30YT=RR was up 18/32 in price with a yield of 2.849 percent, down 3 basis points on the day. The 30-year yield touched 2.819 percent, the lowest in more than five weeks.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Palladium rose to its highest level in nearly three months on Thursday on reports of strong car sales from major automakers.
Gold prices were little changed ahead of the U.S. nonfarm payrolls data for September due out on Friday.
Spot gold XAU= was down less than 0.1 percent at $1,114.06 an ounce, after dropping to $1,110.75, its lowest level since Sept. 16. U.S. December gold futures GCv1 settled down $1.50 an ounce at $1,113.70.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper slipped on Thursday as optimism faded about stronger demand prospects in top consumer China, but some analysts expect prices to soon test the two-week highs seen earlier as lower supply leads to a more balanced market. Benchmark copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange ended down 1.2 percent at $5,097 a tonne from an earlier $5,230, the highest since Sept. 22.
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil prices fell as much as 1 percent on Thursday as the government's storm monitor altered forecasts for the path of the latest U.S. hurricane, snuffing out an early rally that was prompted by fears of storm damage U.S. East Coast oil installations.
Brent LCOc1 , the global benchmark for oil, was down 55 cents, or 1.1 percent, at $47.82 a barrel by 12:22 p.m. EDT (1622 GMT) after hitting a one-week high at $49.84. U.S. crude CLc1 was down 15 cents, or 0.3 percent, at $44.94. At its session high, it had been up more than $2 or 4 percent.
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