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EQUITIES
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks rose across the board on Tuesday, with a rally in Amazon.com putting the S&P 500 on track for its best day in a about a month.
Amazon AMZN.O jumped 3.2 percent to a record of $701.40, giving the biggest boost to the S&P and the Nasdaq.
At 2:39 pm, the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was up 1.06 percent at 17,893.01 points and the S&P 500 .SPX had gained 1.06 percent to 2,080.51.
The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC jumped 1.03 percent to 4,799.37.
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LONDON - Britain's leading stock index rose on Tuesday, lifted by gains for shares in budget airline easyJet EZJ.L and support services group Capita CPI.L .
Capita rose 5.3 percent, making it the top FTSE 100 gainer, after the company expressed increasing confidence over its 2016 prospects.
The blue-chip FTSE 100 index .FTSE was up 0.7 percent at 6,156.65 points by the close.
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TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei share average rose more than 2 percent to 1-1/2-week highs on Tuesday after Japan's finance minister said Tokyo will intervene if the yen's "one-sided" rise persists.
The Nikkei .N225 gained 2.2 percent to 16,565.19, the highest closing level since April 28. The broader Topix .TOPX gained 2.2 percent to 1,334.90 and the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 .JPXNK400 also added 2.2 percent to 12,069.89.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The yen slid to a nearly two-week low against the dollar on Tuesday as risk appetite improved for a second straight session, undermining traditional safe havens such as the Japanese currency.
Repeated verbal warnings from Japan over the weekend and on Tuesday saying it was prepared to step in to weaken the currency has also held off investors seeking to buy the yen at the expense of the dollar.
In late morning trading, the dollar rose 0.7 percent to 109.11 yen, after hitting a roughly two-week peak of 109.27 JPY= . The dollar index .DXY was at 94.171,
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - The U.S. government saw strong demand for its $24 billion auction of three-year notes on Tuesday, the first sale of $62 billion in coupon-bearing debt supply this week.
The debt sold at high yields that were almost two basis points below where the notes had traded before the auction. The ratio of bids to the amount of three-year debt 912828R44= offered was 2.93, up from 2.72 at the prior three-year note sale in April.
Benchmark 10-year notes US10YT=RR rose 1/32 in price to yield 1.76 percent, little changed from Monday.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold fell to a near two-week low on Tuesday, after its steepest loss since March in the prior session, as a firm dollar and higher equities curbed appetite for the precious metal.
Spot gold XAU= was up 0.3 percent at $1,267.30 an ounce by 3:03 p.m. EDT, after hitting an early low of $1,257.25, its weakest since April 28.
U.S. gold for June delivery GCcv1 settled down 0.1 percent at $1,264.80 an ounce.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper steadied on Tuesday alongside the dollar though some analysts expect prices to retreat further as the market fully digests prospects for weak demand growth in top consumer China.
"A lot of the trading in recent days was based on dollar moves, but people are now paying attention to fundamentals. People are more cautious about global and Chinese demand," said Julius Baer analyst Carsten Menke. "Copper is moving back to a more fundamentally justified $4,600."
Benchmark copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange ended little changed at $4,685 a tonne from $4,686 at Monday's close. Earlier on Tuesday, the metal used in power and construction touched $4,672, its lowest since April 12.
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil prices rose about 3 percent on Tuesday, recovering most of the previous session's losses, as supply disruptions of 2.5 million barrels per day in Canada and elsewhere offset concerns about growing record high U.S. crude stockpiles.
Brent crude futures LCOc1 were up $1.60, or 3.6 percent, at $45.23 per barrel by 1:35 p.m. EDT. It had fallen 3.8 percent on Monday.
U.S. crude's West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures CLc1 rose $1, or 2.2 percent, to $44.44.
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