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6730.28 -24.95 DJIA
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15,821.52 +71.68 NASDAQ
4,850.69 +2.32 FTSE
6,204.41 +67.52 S&P 500
2,047.60 +5.69 Hang Seng
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0.6791 0.6785 EUR US$
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108.03 108.74 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Commodities Gold (Lon)
1,239.50
Silver (Lon)
15.34 Gold (NY)
1,240.01
Light Crude
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171.04 +4.20 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - A sharp rally in crude oil and energy shares lifted U.S. stocks on Friday, but indexes registered losses for the week.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI closed up 35 points, or 0.2 percent, to 17,576.96, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 5.69 points, or 0.28 percent, to 2,047.6 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 2.32 points, or 0.05 percent, to 4,850.69.
For the week, the Dow and S&P 500 lost 1.2 percent, while the Nasdaq fell 1.3 percent.
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LONDON - Britain's top share index posted another weekly rise on Friday, helped by buoyant commodity stocks and continuing a run that has seen it outperform European indexes.
The FTSE 100 .FTSE was up 67.52 points, or 1.1 percent, at 6,204.41 points at its close, up 1 percent for the week.
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TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei rose on Friday in volatile trade, reversing earlier weakness as the dollar firmed against the yen, lifting risk appetite, but a sharp drop in Fast Retailing shares limited gains on the benchmark.
The Nikkei share average .N225 gained 0.5 percent to 15,821.52, crawling back from its intraday low of 15,471.80. For the week, it dropped 2.1 percent.
The broader Topix .TOPX gained 1.2 percent to 1,287.69 and the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 .JPXNK400 added 1.2 percent to 11,622.30.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The yen retreated broadly on Friday after posting gains this week, weighed by warnings overnight from Japan's finance minister of possible intervention by the government to weaken the currency.
n late trading, the dollar fell 0.1 percent against the yen to 108.26 yen JPY= . The dollar was down 0.3 percent against a basket of currencies, trading at 94.231 .DXY . A Reuters poll of strategists showed on Thursday that the broader dollar rally that began in mid-2014 has nearly run its course and will only pick up slightly over the coming year.
The euro, meanwhile, rose 0.2 percent against the dollar to to $1.1398 EUR= .
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasury debt yields rose from six-week lows on Friday, backed by a surge in oil prices and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's comments on interest-rate hikes, but fell for the second consecutive week with 30-year bond yields falling for the fourth week in a row.
Benchmark 10-year Treasuries US10YT=RR fell 8/32 in price as their yields rose nearly 3 basis points to 1.716 percent. Those yields had fallen to their lowest since Feb. 24 on Thursday.
Prices on 30-year Treasuries US30YT=RR fell by 23/32 with yields rising 3 basis points to 2.549 percent.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold weakened on Friday as strength in equities prompted investors to cash in some of the previous day's gains, remaining on track for its biggest weekly rise in five weeks as the Federal Reserve remained cautious on U.S. interest rate increases.
Spot gold XAU= was down 0.1 percent at $1,239.70 an ounce by 2:27 p.m. EDT, while U.S. gold futures GCv1 for June delivery settled up 0.5 percent at $1,243.80 an ounce.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper prices stabilised in London on Friday, helped by a lower dollar, but still staged their biggest weekly loss since January on concerns about when demand will grow again and ample supply in China.
Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange CMCU3 closed unchanged at $4,650 a tonne, still near a six-week low hit in the previous session, when it slumped 2.8 percent in the biggest daily loss since September.
LME copper fell 3.6 percent this week, the biggest since the week of Jan. 8, and has erased all its gains so far this year.
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil prices rose more than 6 percent on Friday to end with the biggest weekly gain in a month as drawdowns in U.S. crude stockpiles fed hopes that a punishing global oversupply may be approaching a tipping point after nearly two years.
Brent crude futures LCOc1 settled up $2.51, or 6.4 percent, at $41.94 a barrel, hitting a session high above $42.
U.S. crude futures CLc1 closed up $2.46, or 6.6 percent, to $39.72. Earlier, it rose to nearly $40.
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