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07:18 / 1818 GMT ---------------------------------------------------------------- Stock Markets
NetChng
NetChng S&P/ASX 200
5,435.54 -39.07 NZSX 50
7,120.05 +12.60 DJIA
18,097.50 -46.70 Nikkei
16,774.24 -65.76 NASDAQ
5,214.30 -24.72 FTSE
6,977.74 -46.27 S&P 500
2,133.25 -5.93 Hang Seng
23,031.30 -375.75 SPI 200 Fut
5,420.00 +5.00 STI
2,805.48 -8.23 SSEC
3,061.35 +2.85 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bonds
NetChg
NetChg AU 10 YR Bond
2.234 -0.018 US 10 YR Bond
1.732 -0.046 NZ 10 YR Bond
2.500 -0.005 US 30 YR Bond
2.472 -0.037 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Currencies
1700GMT
1700GMT AUD US$
0.7571 0.7519 NZD US$
0.7093 0.7046 EUR US$
1.1048 1.1013 Yen US$
103.55 103.86 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Commodities Gold (Lon)
1,261.05
Silver (Lon)
17.44 Gold (NY)
1,254.73
Light Crude
50.35 TRJCRB Index
189.02 +0.96 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average touched three-month lows on Thursday, dragged down by weak Chinese economic data and a potential U.S. interest rate hike by the end of the year. At 12:45 p.m. ET (1645 GMT) the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was down 71.66 points, or 0.39 percent, at 18,072.54, and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC was down 27.89 points, or 0.53 percent, at 5,211.13.The S&P 500 .SPX was down 8.43 points, or 0.39 percent, at 2,130.75.
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LONDON - Britain's top share index slipped to its lowest level in more than a week on Thursday, just days after setting a record high, with basic-resources stocks selling off as metals prices fell following poor China trade data.
The FTSE 100 index .FTSE was down 0.7 percent, its third day of losses, and hit its lowest since Oct. 3. The index, dominated by international companies, set a record high earlier this week as sterling plummeted to a 31-year low.
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TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei share average gave up early gains and slipped on Thursday as the yen clawed back ground it had lost to the dollar, with sentiment further undercut by China's weak trade numbers.
The Nikkei .N225 slipped 0.4 percent to end at 16,774.24, moving away from last Friday's five-week highs.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The dollar tumbled from a seven-month high on Thursday, as risk appetite took a turn for the worse after soft Chinese trade data spooked a market that is expecting an interest rate increase from the Federal Reserve by the end of the year.
In mid-morning trading, the dollar index slipped 0.3 percent to 97.695 .DXY , after notching a seven-month peak earlier in the session.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasury prices extended earlier gains on Thursday following solid demand at a $12 billion auction of 30-year government bonds, the last part of this week's $56 billion in coupon-bearing supply. (Full Story)
Benchmark 10-year Treasury notes US10YT=RR were last up 13/32 in price for a yield of 1.731 percent, down 5 basis points from late on Wednesday, while the 30-year bond US30YT=RR was nearly 1 point higher with a yield of 2.465 percent, down over 4 basis points on the day.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold prices edged higher on Thursday as the dollar declined and after world shares slipped following renewed worries about China's economy.
Spot gold XAU= was up 0.3 percent at $1,257.83 an ounce at 1441 GMT while U.S. gold futures GCcv1 climbed 0.4 percent to $1,259.10 an ounce.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper prices slipped almost three percent earlier on Thursday, after China's September trade data showed a sharp decline in imports, raising new concerns about demand in the world's biggest user of metals.
Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange CMCU3 closed down 2.1 percent at $4,712 a tonne, having earlier fallen to a one-month low of $4,687. At that point, prices had retreated around 4 percent from a two-month high of $4,889 touched at the end of September.
For a full report, double click on MET/L
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil prices steadied on Thursday, as a U.S. government report of larger-than-expected draws in diesel and gasoline helped prices rebound from losses incurred when data showed the first crude inventory build in six weeks was much larger than expected.
Brent crude LCOc1 was up 5 cents at $51.91 per barrel by 12:23p.m. EDT (1623 GMT), after falling nearly 90 cents earlier.
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