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162.67 +0.14 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - Wall Street was lower on Thursday, snapping a three-day rally, after a slump in Wal-Mart (N:WMT) weighed on retail stocks and oil prices retreated.
Wal-Mart WMT.N slumped 4 percent to $63.46 after the retailer reported a lower quarterly profit and gave a lackluster sales outlook. Limiting the losses was IBM (N:IBM) IBM.N , which rose 5.4 percent to $132.91 after Morgan Stanley (N:MS) upgraded the stock to "overweight" saying the transformation to a cloud-focused business was not priced in.
At 12:37 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was down 8.18 points, or 0.05 percent, at 16,445.65. The S&P 500 .SPX was down 2.9 points, or 0.15 percent, at 1,923.92 and the Nasdaq Composite index .IXIC was down 18.22 points, or 0.4 percent, at 4,515.84.
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LONDON - Britain's top share index end a four-day winning streak with a fall on Thursday, led lower by major mining stocks and hit by growing concern over the potential impact of Britain's exit from the European Union.
In a note sent to media on Thursday, major bond investor PIMCO, whose flagship fund alone manages $90 billion in assets, said it saw a 40 percent chance of "Brexit" at a referendum potentially later this year
The FTSE 100 index .FTSE was down 1 percent at 5,971.95 points at its close, in line with the broader European market. Mining stocks, which had rebounded, were among the worst performers.
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TOKYO - Japanese stocks rebounded on Thursday after better-than-expected U.S. economic data and rising oil prices helped burnish global investor sentiment for riskier assets.
The Nikkei share average .N225 rose 2.3 percent to 16,196.80, its highest close in a week and a half, shrugging off fresh domestic data showing exports declined the most since October 2009, instead taking cues from recovering oil prices and overnight signs of strength in the United States and Europe.
The broader Topix .TOPX index gained 2.3 percent to close at 1,311.20 with all but three of its 33 sub-indexes in positive territory. The JPX-Nikkei Index 400 .JPXNK400 climbed 2.3 percent to 11,850.64.
For a full report, double click on .T
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The dollar rose against most currencies on Thursday, bolstered by an increase in risk appetite amid a continued recovery in oil prices that has spurred a rally in some global stock markets.
In mid-morning trading, the dollar index rose 0.2 percent to 97.024 .DXY , led by the greenback's gains against the euro. Europe's common currency was last down 0.4 percent at $1.1079 EUR= . The greenback, however, fell against the safe-haven yen, down 0.3 percent at 113.78 yen JPY= .
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasury prices rose on Thursday, with benchmark yields retreating from 1-1/2 week highs, as the rally in Wall Street stocks leveled off, reviving some demand for low-yielding government bonds.
Benchmark 10-year Treasury notes US10YT=RR last traded up 10/32 in price for a yield of 1.779 percent, down over 3 basis points from late on Wednesday. The 30-year bond US30YT=RR was last 29/32 higher in price, yielding 2.639 percent, down nearly 5 basis points from Wednesday's close.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold eased on Thursday as a run higher in equities tempered upward momentum in the precious metal, though uncertainty over the direction of U.S. monetary policy helped to keep prices above $1,200 an ounce.
Spot gold XAU= was down 0.1 percent at $1,207.71 an ounce at 1438 GMT, while U.S. gold futures GCv1 for April delivery fell 0.3 percent to $1,208.30.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper prices fell on Thursday as markets fretted over demand in China, though expectations of further monetary stimulus in the country and firmer oil and equities helped to limit losses.
Benchmark copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange was untraded at the close, but bid down 0.3 percent to $4,575 a tonne.
Three-month aluminium CMAL3 traded down 0.1 percent at $1,517 a tonne, zinc CMZN3 gained 3 percent to $1,697 and lead CMPB3 fell 0.6 percent to $1,725.
For a full report, double click on MET/L
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil prices surrendered much of Thursday's early gains after a build in U.S. crude inventories despite higher refinery runs stole attention from a global oil producer pact that had sharply boosted the market in recent days.
Brent LCOc1 , the global benchmark for crude, was up 20 cents at $34.70 a barrel by 12:37 p.m. EST, having risen more than $1.20 earlier. It had gained a total of more than $4 between Friday and Wednesday.
U.S. crude CLc1 was up 32 cents at $30.98 a barrel, after an earlier peak at $31.98.
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