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NetChng
NetChng S&P/ASX 200
5.755.00 +0.00 NZSX 50
6,970.00 +0.00 DJIA
19,963.80 +64.51 Nikkei
19,454.33
N/A NASDAQ
5,521.05 +33.12 FTSE
7,210.05 +14.74 S&P 500
2,276.98 +7.98 Hang Seng
22,503.01 +46.32 SPI 200 Fut
5,730.00 +9.00 STI
2,962.63 +8.49 SSEC
3,154.29 -11.12 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bonds
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NetChg AU 10 YR Bond
2.755 +0.051 US 10 YR Bond
2.421 +0.000 NZ 10 YR Bond
3.225 +0.025 US 30 YR Bond
3.008 +0.000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Currencies
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1700GMT AUD US$
0.7295 0.7319 NZD US$
0.6960 0.7011 EUR US$
1.0527 1.0578 Yen US$
117.01 116.15 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Commodities Gold (Lon)
1,175.85
Silver (Lon)
16.48 Gold (NY)
1,172.72
Light Crude
53.99 TRJCRB Index
193.54 -0.17 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - The Dow came within one point of 20,000 for the first time on Friday and the Nasdaq and S&P 500 reached record highs, boosted by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), extending a two-month rally fueled by optimism about U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 64.51 points, or 0.32 percent, to end at 19,963.8 points. The index rose as high as 19,999.63 but lost ground. Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) GS.N rose 1.48 percent, helping the Dow more than any other stock.
The S&P 500 .SPX gained 7.98 points, or 0.35 percent, to 2,276.98, its highest close ever. The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 33.12 points, or 0.6 percent, to 5,521.06, also a record.
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LONDON - Britain's top share index posted a record high close on Friday, rounding off its fifth straight week of gains, after U.S. non-farm payrolls data showed fewer jobs than expected but growth in wages.
The FTSE 100 .FTSE index was up 14.74 points or 0.2 percent at 7,210.05 points, the index's first-ever close above 7,200.
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TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei share average dropped on Friday as automakers dragged after incoming U.S President Donald Trump threatened to slap punitive taxes on Toyota cars imported into the United States from Mexico, while Fast Retailing weighed on the market.
The Nikkei .N225 fell 0.3 percent to 19,454.33. For the week, it was up 1.8 percent.
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SYDNEY - Australia's shares are set to edge higher on Monday, extending gains into a fifth consecutive session as the index lingers near more than a 19-month high touched last week.
Local share market futures rose 0.2 percent to 5,730, although that was a 25.5-point discount to the close of the underling S&P/ASX 200 index .AXJO. on Friday. The benchmark climbed to its highest in 19 months in the last session.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The dollar rose on Friday, boosted by a solid U.S. jobs report, after tumbling the day before on mixed U.S. economic data and apparent action by Chinese authorities to shore up the yuan.
The dollar rose 1.5 percent against the yen, hitting a session high JPY= of 117.18 yen, headed for a weekly gain against the Japanese currency. The euro EUR= fell to a low of $1.0525, but was still headed for its third straight weekly rise against the greenback.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - - U.S. Treasury debt yields rallied from multiweek lows on Friday after data showed a rebound in U.S. wages last month despite a smaller-than-expected jobs gain, which could drive the Federal Reserve to consider raising interest rates as early as the first quarter.
In late trading, the U.S. 10-year note US10YT=RR was down 13/32 in price, yielding 2.419 percent, compared with 2.368 percent late Thursday.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold prices slipped on Friday from the previous day's one-month high as the dollar strengthened on a solid U.S. jobs report, while palladium was on track for its largest weekly gain since March on record high U.S. car sales.
Spot gold XAU= was down 0.7 percent at $1,171.70 an ounce by 2:51 p.m. EST (1951 GMT), but up 1.75 percent on the week, its biggest weekly rise in two months.
U.S. gold futures GCcv1 settled down $7.9, or 0.67 percent, at $1,173.4 per ounce.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - opper steadied on Friday as investors squared positions after a strong U.S. payrolls report, even as they kept an eye on a stronger dollar and tried to gauge to what extent the recovery in China and United States had been priced in.
Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange CMCU3 ended up 0.2 percent at $5,590 a tonne. The metal gained 18 percent last year and ended the first week of trade with a gain of 1.2 percent.
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil rose slightly on Friday on futures buying, ending the week higher, but gains were limited by a strong U.S. dollar and lingering doubts about whether OPEC producers would stick to a deal to cut output.
Brent crude futures LCOc1 settled 21 cents higher at $57.10 per barrel, after trading in a range of $56.28 to $57.47. The contract posted gains for the second week in a row.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures CLc1 ended the session up 23 cents at $53.99 a barrel, after swinging between $53.32 and $54.32. WTI notched its third straight weekly gain.
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