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Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - Wall Street was lower on Tuesday as oil prices steadied but hovered near their 7-year low and weak Chinese trade data reignited fears of a global economic slowdown.
U.S. crude fell below $37 per barrel and Brent below $40 for the first time since early 2009, before paring some of those losses.
At 12:35 p.m. ET (1735 GMT) the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was down 173.17 points, or 0.98 percent, at 17,557.34, the S&P 500 .SPX was down 15.49 points, or 0.75 percent, at 2,061.58 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC was down 16.12 points, or 0.32 percent, at 5,085.70.
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LONDON - A slump in Anglo American AAL.L shares hit UK-listed miners on Tuesday, dragging Britain's main share index to a fourth consecutive day of losses.
Anglo American shares fell 12.3 percent to a record low after the company suspended dividends for the second half of this year.
The blue-chip FTSE 100 index .FTSE was down by 1.4 percent at 6,135.22 points at its close, with the FTSE 350 Mining index .FTNMX1770 losing over 7 percent, its biggest one-day fall since the end of September.
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TOKYO - Japanese stocks fell on Tuesday after sharp declines in oil and other commodity shares offset news that the economy had dodged a recession in the third quarter.
The Nikkei share average shed 1 percent to end the day at 19,492.60 points.
The broader Topix .TOPX fell 1 percent to 1,568.73, with all but two of its 33 subindexes in negative territory.
The JPX-Nikkei Index 400 .JPXNK400 slipped 1 percent to 14,123.39.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The Canadian dollar, Norwegian crown and currencies of other major oil exporters fell on Tuesday, hitting decade-plus lows versus the dollar as concerns about an oil supply glut and soft global demand sent crude prices to near seven-year lows.
Growth-oriented currencies such as the Australian dollar also remained on the defensive after Chinese trade data for November did little to soothe concerns about China's economic slowdown.
The euro gained 0.4 percent at $1.0878 EUR= , while the dollar fell 0.5 percent at 122.77 yen JPY= .
The dollar against a group of major currencies was down 0.2 percent at 98.437 .DXY .
On the flip side, the dollar touched C$1.3623 CAD=D4 , its strongest against its Canadian counterpart since mid-2004. It rose 1.5 percent versus the Norwegian crown NOK= , touching 8.8194 crowns, its highest since April 2002.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasury debt yields edged higher on Tuesday in choppy trading after falling the previous two sessions, but sentiment remained cautious with the continued drop in oil prices, suggesting inflation would remain subdued.
In late morning trading, U.S. benchmark 10-year Treasury notes US10YT=RR were down 4/32 on the day to yield 2.241 percent, up from Monday's 2.234 percent.
The 30-year bond US30YT=RR fell 15/32 in price to yield 2.974 percent, up from 2.962 percent on Monday.
U.S. 2-year Treasury notes US2YT=RR , meanwhile, were little changed in price, with a yield of 0.947 percent, up from 0.935 percent on Monday. On Thursday, two-year yields hit 0.994 percent, their highest since May 2010.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold rose on Tuesday as the dollar receded slightly and European shares fell, though expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise interest rates next week kept gains in check.
Spot gold XAU= rose 0.5 percent to $1,075.10 an ounce by 1443 GMT, having slid 1.5 percent in the previous session.
U.S. gold futures GCcv1 fell 0.1 percent to $1,074.50 an ounce.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper prices rose on Tuesday as the dollar slipped, but gains were capped by trade data from top consumer China, which fuelled worries about demand growth in the top consumer of the metal.
Benchmark three month copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange closed up 0.7 percent at $4,587 a tonne.
Three-month aluminium CMAL3 ended down 0.5 percent at $1,477 a tonne, zinc CMZN3 finished unchanged at $1,531, lead CMPB3 gained 0.6 percent to close at $1,697, tin dropped 1.4 percent to $14,400 and nickel CMNI3 shed 0.6 percent to
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil prices steadied on Tuesday but not before plumbing new lows seen during the 2009 financial crisis as an intensifying supply glut sparked fears the world will run out of storage for crude.
Brent and U.S. crude futures sunk beneath $40 a barrel, hitting February 2009 levels and extending Monday's 6 percent rout, before paring losses on what traders said was most likely short-covering.
Brent LCOc1 was down 25 cents at $40.48 a barrel by 12:00 p.m. EST (1700 GMT), after setting a session low at $39.81.
U.S. crude's West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures CLc1 were up 5 cents at $37.70, after sliding to $36.64 earlier.
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