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7,354.61 +19.48 DJIA
20,977.35 +2.26 Nikkei
19,251.87 -37.56 NASDAQ
6,043.55 +18.33 FTSE
7,237.17 -51.55 S&P 500
2,387.81 +0.36 Hang Seng
24,698.48 +120.05 SPI 200 Fut
5,902.00 -7.00 STI
3,171.36 -2.40 SSEC
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NetChg AU 10 YR Bond
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2.295 -0.016 NZ 10 YR Bond
3.105 +0.000 US 30 YR Bond
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1700GMT AUD US$
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0.6873 0.6910 EUR US$
1.0878 1.0907 Yen US$
111.17 111.31 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Commodities Gold (Lon)
1,262.80
Silver (Lon)
17.28 Gold (NY)
1,268.65
Light Crude
49.09 TRJCRB Index
180.49 -1.22 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - The Nasdaq hit a record intraday high on Thursday, powered by a spate of strong earnings from technology companies, while the S&P 500 and the Dow were little changed.
At 12:54 p.m. ET (1654 GMT), the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI was up 3.64 points, or 0.02 percent, at 20,978.73, the S&P 500 .SPX was up 0.99 points, or 0.04 percent, at 2,388.44 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC was up 19.00 points, or 0.32 percent, at 6,044.22.
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LONDON - Britain's top shares index fell on Thursday, snapping a three-day winning streak as miners and ex-dividends weighed.
Britain's blue chip FTSE 100 .FTSE index ended down 0.7 percent at 7,237.17 points, underperforming a slight fall in the broader European market.
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TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei share average dipped on Thursday tracking retreat in Wall Street shares on disappointment over the U.S. tax plan, but advancers outnumbered decliners by almost two-to-one on strong sentiment following receding political worries in Europe.
The Nikkei .N225 fell 0.2 percent to 19,251.87, while the broader Topix .TOPX dipped 0.05 percent to 1,536.67.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The euro dipped against the U.S. dollar on Thursday after European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi said policymakers did not discuss removing the bank's easing bias on monetary policy, while the dollar jumped against the Swedish crown after the Riksbank extended its bond-buying.
The euro initially rose to a session high of $1.0932 EUR= on language in the ECB's statement, read by Draghi, which said the euro zone's recovery was increasingly solid and downside risks had diminished.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasury prices rose on Thursday on steady demand for government bonds following the announcement of President Donald Trump's unimpressive tax plan and on persistent uncertainty over French elections and tensions in North Korea and Syria.
In late morning trading, benchmark 10-year notes US10YT=RR were up 5/32 in price to yield 2.292 percent, compared with 2.311 percent late on Wednesday.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold resumed its downward slide from a five-month high in mid-April, giving up gains that came after U.S. President Donald Trump announced unfunded tax cuts, causing shares and U.S. bond yields to fall.
Spot gold XAU= was down 0.4 percent at $1,263.57 an ounce at 1445 GMT on Thursday, with U.S. gold futures GCcv1 up 0.1 percent at $1,265.10 an ounce.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper and zinc fell on Thursday, while nickel recovered from a fresh 10-month low, on concern about demand in top metals market China and scepticism about proposed U.S. tax cuts.
Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange CMCU3 closed down 0.4 percent at $5,692 a tonne. In the previous session copper touched the highest since April 18 at $5,738, recovering from a more than three-month low hit earlier this month.
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OIL
NEW YORK - - Crude prices fell more than 1 percent on Thursday as the restart of two key oilfields in Libya pumped more crude into an already bloated market.
Brent crude LCOc1 fell $1.22 a barrel to $51.17 by 1:02 p.m. EDT (1702 GMT). U.S. light crude CLc1 was down $1.25 lowet at $48.37 a barrel.
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